History of Early Christian Literature in the First Three Centuries (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... LeQuien, II, 752) from Codex Vatic. 1553 (Magistris, 67; Mai, NC, VII, gS, 107, 108), and Codex Coisl. 276 f. 148 (Pitra, AS, II, p. XXXVII). 2 Roch, 18 f. 3 Eusebius, Hist. VII, 26. 2; cf. VI, 40. 3ff.; Dittrich, 4 f. holds a different view. 4 Roch, 58. translation of the fragments preserved by Eusebius). English translation by S. F. D. Salmond, in ANF, VI, 84-91. (b) According to his own statement,1 Dionysius wrote an exposition on the beginning of Ecclesiastes which was still known even to Procopius of Gaza in the fifth century, and which he used in his Catena on Ecclesiastes. There are no data for determining the date of its composition, but it also may belong to the period before the author became a bishop. According to Procopius,2 Dionysius opposed the allegorical interpretation of the garments of skins, and other things in the Garden of Eden, whereas according to a fragment of uncertain origin, found in a Vatican manuscript,3 he himself employed the same interpretation. In any case the statement of Procopius, and the isolated remark of Anastasius Sinaita,4 that Dionysius wrote a book Kara, "0p176Pou?, do not justify the inference that he was only a half-way admirer of Origen, and that he was therefore also a half-way opponent.6 (c) The two books Ilept eTrayyeiav were directed against the chiliastic dreamings of Nepos, bishop of Arsinoe, which he committed to paper in an "EXe7o? arjyopia"riav.e By the application of a spiritual method of interpretation, Dionysius set forth in the first book his own opinion concerning the promise, in order to treat in the second of the character and origin of the Johannine Apocalypse, to which his opponents principally appealed.1 Eusebius has preserved five extensive extracts from the second book.2 The...