3. It is interesting to consider how far he was carried away by the malign influence of Archdeacon Serapion upon his impetuous disposition.
4. "Chrysostomos. "
5. The Homilies on Acts, the Psalms and the Epistles to the Colossians and Thessalonians are of this period.
6. The statement in D.C.B., that John sent his "grateful thanks" to Pinianus, Palladius' host at Rome ( L . H., lxi. 5), is incorrect. The thanks are sent (Chrys. Epp. 157-160) to the four bishops of the delegation. The letters and the History both confirm the accounts given in the Dialogue of the visit to Rome and its sequel.
7. Pall., L. H., xxxv. 12.
8. vii. 36.
9. Patrology (Shahan's Transl.), p. 381.
10. But cf. Pall., L. H., Prologue, thirty-eight lines without a full-stop.
11. This is especially noticeable in the passages in the Dialogue which deal with the life of monks, the subject of the History. Dr. Reitzenstein agrees with Dr. Zöckler.
12. Cambridge Companion to the Bible, p. 31; Oxford Helps to the Study of the Bible, p. 25.
13. I do not mean that the writer or writers must have possessed actual copies of either of the MSS. mentioned; there were doubtless many other copies of the original translation, with more or less numerous variations. For instance, two quotations are made----Ps. cxix. 51 and Prov. xi. 4----which are omitted in "B." Both occur in "A"; but the first, at least, must have been in many other copies, as without them the eight verses of the stanza would have been deficient.
14. In both treatises acquaintance is shown with the writings of Evagrius, one of Palladius' companions in the desert.
15. Dom Butler finds some trace of this in the History. The seeds of naughtiness were awaiting development.
16. There are many parallel expressions in Isidore of Pelusium, or whose authorship something more might be said.
17. Since this book was in print, Abbot Butler has again dealt with the question of unity of authorship, with greater fulness and detail, in an article in The Journal of Theological Studies for January 1921, which all Greek scholars interested in the subject should by all means study.
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