19. The reason why the young men wished to escape office was because higher municipal officials were so weighted with heavy expenses that it often ruined their fortunes. Hence they represented the governor's act as a piece of vindictiveness. (Noldeke, Sketches from Eastern History, p. 217.)
20. A kind of large mouse or rat.
21. The Maronites are probably descendants of these converts who embraced Christianity after Simeon's intercession had, as they believed, Treed them from the ravages of wild beasts (Noldeke, Sketches from Eastern History p. 220).
22. Jo. 14,12.
23. Acts 5,15.
24. Acts 19, 12.
25. Jo. 21, 25.
26. Lit., "the son of the left hand".
27. "Indian" here means Ethiopian (negro), as often.
28. Assemani's text has "Amid".
29. See above.
30. The old popular superstition about the demon of the storm and the heavenly deliverer is here crassly transferred to Simeon, (Noldeke, Sketches from Eastern History, p. 222.)
31. "House of "Wells".
32. A coarse cloak worn by priests.
33. Exod. 19,19.
34. Psalm 37, 37.
35. Ezekiel 12, 3 ff.
36. In June and September, 459 A. D., there were severe earthquakes.
37. On the trustworthiness of this account of Simeon's interference in the matter of the Jewish synagogues, see Noldeke, Sketches from Eastern History, p. 218, and Torrey, JAOS, vol. XX, 1899, pp. 254 ff.
38. Ps 110,6.
39. Leo the First, who became king in the year 457 and died in the year 474. This clause is expunged in Codex Vat, See p. 107.
40. "Here ends the story of Mar Simeon the Stylite" (Assemani).
41. ["And was crowned the saint Mar Simeon on the second day of the month Elul on the fourth day of the week, at the ninth hour, in the year seven hundred and seventy-one of the Greek Era (i. e. 459 A. D.). Here endeth the excellent story of the course of the life of the perfect saint Mar Simeon of the Pillar. May his prayer aid the sinner who wrote it." (B. M. Add. 12174, fol. 48 a)].
42. [Dr. Lent's translation and investigations were completed in the spring' of 1906. Since then has appeared (in Harnack und Schmidt, Texte und Untersuchungen, Ed. 32, Heft 4; Leipzig, 1908) a comprehensive work on. the life of the Saint by Lietzmann and Hilgenfeld, to which the latter contributes a German translation of the Bedjan text (pp. 80 -180). Hilgenfeld also gives a translation of the Letters of Simeon (pp. 188 ff.), of which the Syriac text, with translation and an investigation regarding authenticity etc., was published by Professor Torrey in this Journal in 1899; see the reference above, p. 104. Ed.]
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