[ Short lacunae are indicated in the translation by dots, and longer gaps by asterisks, but in neither case is the number of the dots or asterisks intended to bear any exact relation to the number of the missing words. In respect to this an approximately correct inference may be drawn by consulting the Syriac text.
Double inverted commas mark quotations where the original has [Syriac]
Single inverted commas are used in numerous cases where the words seem to be quotations or to belong to a special terminology.
Words in italics inside square brackets are to be regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.
In a few passages, where the text has suffered great mutilation, italics indicate an attempt to summarise the argument from suggestions in the fragments. ]
[P.101] indicates page 101 of the accompanying Syriac. [l.2] means line 2 of the current page of the accompanying Syriac. [RP]
FOOTNOTES
I have moved the footnotes to the end. Those consisting of "Read [syriac] for [syriac]" or similar have been omitted, as it has not been possible to transcribe the fragments of Syriac. The pages are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers and line numbers relate to the Syriac text printed at the back of the paper volume. Greek text is rendered using the Scholars Press SPIonic font, free from here .
1. For the rendering, see Galatians vi 1, syr. vg.
2. Albinus (c. 152 A.D.) wrote an Introduction ( Ei0sagwgh& ) to the Platonic Dialogues, but the work here referred to is different and does not seem to be extant.
3. Lit. 'will belong to that which is incorporeal.' On p. 11, 1. 44, add [Syriac] at the end of the line.
4. Here and in what follows it has been found necessary to render athra sometimes by ' Place ' and sometimes by ' Space.'
5. The words in square brackets are uncertain ; perhaps they are place-names.
6. Lit. 'between body and word.'
7. In Syriac a Verb is called a 'word' ([Syriac]) and a Noun is called a 'name'.
8. Ecclesiastes iii 1.
9. Compare Aristotle, Metaphysica vi 2, 2 : "It is held by some that the boundaries of a body, such as the visible surface ( e0pifa&neia ) and outline ( grammh& ) and extreme points ( stigmh& ) and its isolation ( mona&s ), are real ( unsai/ai ), more real than the solid itself."
10. A word used of gaudy attire in the Life of Rabbula 189 19 . The Note to p. 42, 1. 2, should be deleted.
11. Note, in view of Ephraim's argument against Bardaisan (p. xxii), that the word for 'engender ' is, literally, 'give birth to.'
12. Lit. 'sailed about' : see p. 221, 1. 35, and delete the Note, p. 48, 1. 48
13. 'Moon' is either masculine or feminine in Syriac.
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Greek text is rendered using the Scholars Press SPIonic font, free from here .