Philip of Side, Fragments (2010)
Fragment 1 - On Adam and Eve .
Fragment 2 - On Athenagoras and the heads of the Alexandrian catechetical school .
Fragment 3: 1-5 - Fragments contained in De gestis in Perside / Religionsgespräch am Hof der Sasaniden .
Fr. 4.1 - 4.7 - Expansions of Eusebius' HE / Fragments of Papias, Hegesippus, Pierius . [Attribution questionable]
Fr. 5.1 - 5.7 - Constantine and the Council of Nicaea [Attribution questionable]
Fr. 6.1 - 6.7 - History from Diocletian to Constantine [Attribution to Philip questionable at best]
Fr. 7.1-2 - Chemical processes for treating copper and iron [Attribution to Philip questionable at best]
The fragments of Philip of Side
[Translated by Andrew Eastbourne]
A catalogue of the fragments is given by Katharina Heyden, who lists all the fragments and discusses them: Die Christliche Geschichte des Philippos von Side: Mit einem kommentierten Katalog der Fragmente , in M. Wallraff (ed.), Julius Africanus und die christliche Weltchronistik (Berlin, 2006), pp. 209-243.
Fr. 1
[On Adam and Eve]
[From Cod. Bodl. gr. 120, fol. 300r and Paris. Suppl. gr. 685, fol. 10r. — Greek text printed by D. Serruys, "Autour d'un fragment de Philippe de Side," in Mélanges d'archéologique et d'histoire 26 (1906), pp. 335-359 (p. 336 for the text of these two mss.; on p. 346, Serruys prints the parallel material from Paris. gr. 1712, where Philip's name is not cited). Wirth, Aus orientalischen Chroniken , pp. 208-9, had earlier printed somewhat more text as the fragment from Paris Suppl. gr. 685.]
Paris. gr. 1712
Bodl. gr. 120
Paris. Suppl. gr. 685
Some say, from tradition, that Adam spent one hundred years in Paradise. Others, that he was formed at the third hour, transgressed at the sixth, and was cast out at the ninth...
...and this took place through seven years, as some of the presbyters / elders declared.
(1) Note that Philip of Sidde in the twentieth tome of the Christian History says that Adam spent one hundred years in Paradise, and was cast out. And after another hundred years he knew Eve his wife and produced Cain, and after three years [produced] Abel, and after thirty years, Seth. This [information] is from the tradition.
(2) But others say that he worked seven years in Paradise and from the transgression, from the first hour of that day until the sixth hour, he was cast out.
The Hebrews have 22 letters, and 22 books, and 22 generations from Adam to Jacob. And on the sixth day of the second week, it is said that Eve was created, and 40 days after Adam's creation he entered in order to work in Paradise.
(1) But Philip of Side in the 22nd tome of <the> Christian History says that Adam spent 100 years in Paradise. And after being cast out, he spent another 100 years and he knew Eve and produced Cain the accursed, and after three years [produced] Abel, and after 100 years, Seth.
Fr. 2
[On Athenagoras and the heads of the Alexandrian catechetical school]