1. See the article by C. C. Torrey, The Letters of Simeon the Stylite, published in this Journal, vol. XX (1899), pp. 253-276. Professor Torrey maintained that the Bedjan recension is the original, and pointed out (pp. 275 f.) one passage in which it is certain that the text of Assemani is merely an abridgment. The proof needs to be considerably extended, however, and an attempt to do this is made in the following pages.
2. See below, page 511.
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