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Homily XIX.

[1] This passage is corrupt. Wieseler has proposed to amend it by bold transposition of the clauses. We make one slight alteration in the text.

[2] [Compare with this discussion respecting the origin of the evil one, Recognitions, ix. 55, 56; x. 3, etc. In Recognitions, iii. 15–23, the existence of evil is discussed.—R.]

[7] This passage is not found in the New Testament. It resembles Eph. iv. 27.

[8] Matt. v. 37; Jas. v. 12.

[9] Matt. vi. 13.

[10] Matt. xxv. 41.

[11] [Comp. Homily XX. 8, 9.—R.]

[12] This passage is probably corrupt. We have adopted the readings of Cotelerius—ἤ, ἢ, instead of εἰ and μή.

[13] Lit., “unwritten.”

[14] The words γενητός and ἀγένητος are difficult to translate. The first means one who has somehow or other come into being; the second, one who has never come into being; but has always been. The mss. confound γενητός with γεννητός, begotten, and ἀγένητος with ἀγέννητος, unbegotten.

[15] We have changed εἰ into ἢ.

[16] By “Him” is understood God, though it may mean the devil.

[17] Lit., “his usefulness was most necessary of all.”

[18] This sentence is obscure in the original. We have, with Wieseler, read ἐπεί, omitting ἀρχῇ. Instead of supplying μή, we have turned συγγνῶναι into the participle.

[19] We have adopted the pointing of Wieseler.

[20] Matt. xii. 34.

[21] We have altered the punctuation. Editors connect this clause with the previous sentence, and change ἤ of the ms. into εἰ.

[22] This sentence is regarded as corrupt by Wieseler. We have retained the reading of the Paris ms., ὁ, and understand λαμβάνεται after it. Δὲ would naturally be inserted after ταύτῃ, but it is not necessary. Καθαρθεισῶν is translated in the Latin purgatis, which may mean the same as in our translation if we take it in the sense of “washed away;” but καθαιρεθεισῶν would be a better reading. The translation of Cotelerius gives, “Since this is reasonably assumed with firmness,—namely, that it is right to give to God,” etc.

[23] The text here is evidently corrupt in many places. If the reading “by him” is to be retained, we must suppose, with Wieseler, that “by God” is omitted in the previous clause. Probably it should be, “by himself.”

[24] “And bad” is not in the mss., but is required by the context.

[25] The text is corrupt here. Literally it is, “I do not admit that God had been begotten.”

[26] “Evil” is not in the mss. It is inserted from the next sentence.

[27] “Every” is inserted by a conjecture of Schwegler’s.

[28] Lit., “naturally had their desire towards neither.”

[29] The mss. have “by law.” We have changed νόμῳ into μόνον.

[30] The devil is plainly meant by the “he.”

[31] This passage is evidently corrupt. But it is not easy to amend it.

[32] Probably “eternity” should be read, instead of “eternal creation.”

[33] At this word thems. of Cotelerius breaks off; and we have the rest only in the Ottobonian ms., first edited by Dressel.

[34] Matt. xxvii. 51, viii. 24–26.

[35] Matt. viii. 31.

[36] Possibly the right reading is ἐμψύχους, “it produces living beings.”

[37] Or, “on whose account.”

[38] [Comp. xi. 8; Recognitions, iii. 21, 26, etc.—R.]

[39] The text is corrupt.

[40] The ms. reads: “In this respect he who made him is wicked, who gave existence to what was non-existent.”

[41] The Greek is either ungrammatical or corrupt, but the sense is evident.

[42] This passage is supposed by most to be defective, and various words have been suggested to supply the lacuna.

[43] Or, “monarch.” But only two letters of the word are in the ms.; the rest is filled in by conjecture.

[44] Supplied by conjecture.

[45] Three words are struck out of the text of the ms. by all editors, as being a repetition.

[46] The editors punctuate differently, thus: “And knowing beforehand that he was becoming not good, He would not have allowed him, unless He knew that he would be useful to Himself.” We suppose the reference in the text to be to Gen. i. 31.

[47] Or, “self-subsistence.” We have supposed a transposition of the words in the text. The text is without doubt corrupt.

[48] We have adopted an emendation of Lagarde’s.

[49] Dressel translates viriliter, “manfully.”

[50] This word is supplied by conjecture.

[51] This passage is hopelessly corrupt. We have changed δικαίως into δικαιοῖς, the verb, and τὸν προδιωρισμένον into τοῦ προδιωρισμένου.

[52] We have adopted Wieseler’s emendation of ἄδικον into ἀδικεῖν.

[53] This is a conjectural filling up of a blank.

[54] This is partly conjecture, to fill up a blank.

[55] The text is likely corrupt.

[56] Uhlhorn changed οὖν ἑνός into οὐδενός. We have changed καὶ τρίτην into καὶ τότε τήν. Various emendations have been proposed.

[57] Mark iv. 34. [More probably, Matt. xiii. 11.—R.]

[58] We have adopted an emendation of Wieseler’s.

[59] The words in italics supplied by conjecture.

[60] This last sentence has two blanks, which are filled up by conjectures: and one emendation has been adopted.

[61] [With chaps. 21, 22, compare Homily XX. 4.—R.]

[62] We have adopted an emendation of Lagarde’s.

[63] Eccles. iii. 2.

[64] Lit., “new moons that are according to the moon.” Gal. iv. 10.

[65] “At times when” is supplied by conjecture.

[66] We have followed an emendation of Wieseler’s.

[67] John ix. 2, 3. [This clear instance of citation from the Gospel of John is found in that portion of the text recovered by Dressel. It is of importance, since writers of the Tübingen school previously denied that this author uses the fourth Gospel.—R.]

[68] We have adopted an obvious emendation of Wieseler’s.

[69] [Comp. Recognitions, iii. 40, 41.—R.]

[70] An amendation of Wieseler’s.

[71] The whole of this sentence is corrupt. We have adopted the conjectures of Wieseler, though they are not entirely satisfactory.

[72] Possibly something is corrupt here. The words may be translated: “Is it not plain that I know how to judge correctly?”

[73] The ms. has, “do not cease.” We have omitted μὴ, and changed παύσῃ into παύσει. We have inserted the μή after ἤ, changed into εἰ before αἰδεῖσθαι.

[74] We have adopted an emendation of Wieseler’s.

[75] An emendation of Wieseler’s.

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