l. 27.--" Vales." There is added here in the Greek, " a deacon of Aelia." This had been stated of him before in the part omitted from the Greek, " a deacon of the Church of Jerusalem." See p. 37, l. 35, above.
P. xl. l. 4.--"ln prison." The other Greek has [], which Papebrochius has corrected after Metaphrastes from Lipomannus's translation in carcere, to [].
l. 33.--" Our Mother in whom we confess is the Holy Church." The Greek here, as in Gal. iv. 26, [] and adds, Heb. xii. 12, [], and so the other Greek and Lipomannus' version. See p. 74 above.
P. xli. l. 3.--" In what country was that Jerusalem." At the time when these events took place, there was no city known to the Romans by the name of Jerusalem; otherwise, as Valesius observes, Firmillianus, president of Palestine, would never have been so earnest in his inquiries of the martyrs where Jerusalem was situated. Eusebius writes, Book 4, ch; 6 :--" From that time the whole nation was altogether interdicted to enter into the country about Jerusalem, the law, edict, and sanctions of Adrian having commanded them that they should not so much as from afar off behold their paternal soil. Ariston of Pella relates this. Thus the city being destitute of the Jewish nation, and wholly cleared of its old inhabitants, was possessed by foreigners, who dwelt there, and afterwards made a Roman city; and changing its name, was, in honour of the Emperor Aelius Adrianus, called Aelia." Valesius, in his note on this place, says () :--" Eusebius is here doubly mistaken; both in that he says Jerusalem was wholly destroyed in Adrian's time; and also because he thought Aelia Capitolina was built by the same Adrian after the siege of Betthera.-- Aelia Capitolina was built long before; to wit, in the second year of Adrian: from whose times to those of Constantine the Great it was always called Aelia. But from the time of Constantine the Great it recovered again the name of Jerusalem, both upon account of the honour of that name, and also because of its prerogative, being the first episcopal seat." See Eng. Trans. p. 52.
P. xlii. l. 7.--"Wretch ---- savage brute." Such epithets as this, and others--"that bitter viper," p. 12, "fierce wild beast,' p. 49, when applied to the persecutors of the Christians, are not peculiar to Eusebius. Cyprian calls Nero, execrabilis ac nocens tyrannus, bestia mala ; and Decius, execrabile animal: also he calls Diocletianus, Maximinianus Herculius, and Galerius Maximinianus, tres acerbissimae bestiae. See De mortt. Pers. ch. 4, 9, 16, &c.
l.24.--"Weak in body." Syriac, []. The other Greek, [], and Lipomannus, corpore pulverulentum. Perhaps originally the translation was a,[] afterwards altered by a transcriber.
l. 28.--" Having put on his cloak like a philosopher, with his shoulder uncovered." Valesius has this Note on Book 6, ch. 19 of Ecc. Hist. ():--" The philosophic habit was the pallium or cloak, which was the usual badge of the Greek philosophers, different from that which was worn by the ordinary Greeks, which those Christians still kept to, who, before their conversion, were philosophers."--See Eng. Trans. p. 101. And on this place ():--"This garment is in the Greek termed εξωμις : see its description, A. Gellius, Book 7, ch. 12." ibid. p. 168.
P. xliv. l. 2.--" The father of three generations." The Greek, [], and the other Greek, []. On which Papebrochius observes:--" Trium filiorum patribus praemia apud Romanos fuisse proposita notius est quam ut hie moneri debeat, atque id hie dici credo []. Valesius, tamen aliter vertit quod tertiae jam stirpis nepotes haberet" See Hippol. Opera, vol. ii. p. 224.
l. 19.-- " Officers," here " Quaestionarii," as above, p. 55. The Greek is, in this place, [].
l. 27.--" There was also in him a glorious savour of the Holy Spirit." Greek, [] ; and the other Greek, [].
l. 36.--" Without the permission of the Governor." Omitted in the Greek.
P. xlv. l. 1.--"And were laid in the interior of the Churches ..... with God." This passage is not found in the abridged Greek, but it is in the other Greek. Upon which Papebrochius has the following note: " Deest haec clausula in historia: quam tamem Eusebio abjudicare nihil nos cogit, qui vitam Pamphili seque ac Historiam Ecclesiasticam scripsit, cum jam Constantinus lege lata permisisset Christianis sacras aedes condere et Martyrum corpora eis inferre." See Hippol. Opera, vol. ii. p. 224.
l. 13.--"Of Batanea." [] Greek, [].
l. 32.--" He was the last ..... in Caesarea." The Greek here adds the account of Firmillianus having been put to death by the sword; and then a chapter concerning what happened to the prelates of the Church.
P. xlvi. l. 1.--" The confession of Paulus," &c. The name in the Greek is [], both in this place and in Ecc. Hist, Book 8, ch. 13.
l. 9---"Phaeno." Eusebius has described this place thus in his book, De locis Hebraicis :--[]. And Athanasius:--[]. See Reading's Note on Eusebius at this place.
1. 18.--" Zauara." This is Zoura, mentioned by Eusebius in the preceding note, now Zara, Zora, or Zoara. See Van de Velde, Memoir to Map of the Holy Land, p. 354.
P. xlvii. l. 8.--" Patermytheus." Above, Patrimytheas, with the usual inconsistency in writing proper names in Syriac.
l. 10.--" Lovers of that exalted philosophy which is of God." That is, the Christian religion. See Ecc. Hist, passim.
l. 25.--" Presbyter of the Church in the city of Gaza." The Greek has, []. And in the Ecc. Hist. Book 8, ch. 13:-- . And in the Greek of the Mart. Palest., ch. 7, he gives the same account of him as in this place, that he was at that time presbyter of Gaza, and afterwards was promoted to the episcopate :--[] .
P. xlviii. l. 5.--"And suddenly a mandate of wickedness was issued." The Greek states that this order was given by Maximinus.
l. 9.--"Forty in number." The Greek says "thirty-nine.''
l. 10.--" Many of them were Egyptians." The Greek adds in this place the account of one John, who had learned the Scriptures so thoroughly by heart, that Eusebius states, that when he saw him standing up and repeating portions of the Scripture to the congregation, he supposed that he had been reading, till he drew near, and discovered that he was quite blind.
l. 16.--"For he that was excited against us ..... perished after the manner of a cruel wild beast." It does not appear to whom this applies. Probably he means Firmillianus, of whose savage disposition and extreme cruelty he had spoken above in such strong terms, see p. 27, 29; some account of whose death he gives in the Greek, although omitted here. See note above, on P. xlv. 1. 32, p. 84. Or he may mean the Maximinus whose death he describes in the Ecclesiastical History, b. xi. ch. 10.
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