A Christian's Christian Topography embracing the whole world.
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1. According to the reading of the Greek text ( poihsame/nou, a)rcame/nou ), which Montfaucon follows in his Latin version, his should be substituted for our; but as Cosmas can neither have meant that Moses made divine scripture, which did not yet exist, his starting-point ( ta_j a)forma_j ), nor that the narrative of Moses began with the destruction of the firstborn of the Egyptians, I have taken as the proper readings poihsa&menoj and a)rca&menoj .
2. Heb. x, 1 .
3. Gr. meta&lhyin musthri/wn . Metalepsis is still in the Greek Church the term in use for the Holy Communion. By the Mysteries are meant the symbolic rites of the Christian faith, chiefly baptism and the eucharist. The mysteries recognised by St. Theodorus, abbot of the monastery of Studium, in Constantinople, who flourished towards the end of the eighth century, were baptism, eucharist, unction, orders, monastic tonsure, and the mystery of death or funeral ceremonies. The Greek Church now recognises seven mysteries: baptism, chrism or unction immediately after baptism, eucharist, priesthood, penance ( meta&noia ), marriage and unction ( eu)xe/laion ), administered by seven priests.
4. II Cor. v, 7.
5. John i, 29.
6. The Heroopolitan, or Western Gulf at the northern extremity of the Red Sea, is called by Eusebius Clysma. As it was said to have been so designated from a town at the northern extremity of the gulf, Clysma was probably situated at, or somewhere near, Suez. Orosius mentions the wheel-tracks here spoken of by Cosmas, as does also Philostorgius in the abstract of his Ecclesiastical History made by Photius (Book in, c. 6). Athanasius, however, and others, thought Clysma was in Arabia, near the mountain to which Philo, an Egyptian bishop, was banished by Constantius.
7. Luke ii, 22.
8. The Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, with special reference to the day on which he was worshipped by the Wise Men of the East.
9. This word means a palm grove. See Strabo's Geog., xvi, ii, 41.
10. Psalm cv, 38.
11. Note by Montfaucon: "This, with the figures that follow, we have purposely omitted, because they were either omitted by the copyists, or clumsily drawn and otherwise useless."
12. See note 2, p. 56.
13. The picture is not given in Montfaucon.
14. Psalm, lxxviii, 16.
15. Psalm, cv, 41.
16. I Cor. x, 4.
17. Gr. e0kmagei=on .
18. Exod. xv, 30.
19. Heb. ix, i, 2.
20. Heb. viii, i, 2.
21. Heb. ix, 11, 12.
22. Heb. ix, 24.
23. This word (from stu&fw , I contract) is to be found neither in Liddell and Scott's Dictionary nor in that of Sophocles. It is rendered by ex tela in Montfaucon's Latin version.