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    812 Letters from Germany.

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    Sir, That Part Of The Sixtieth Canon Of ...

    ius 9 who was contemporary with the Council of Laodicea in the middle of the fourth century , differing from his catalogue only in the order of the Ibooks * tfee present examination is limited entirely to external proofs ,, The sources of evidence are the collections oF Greek Synods , which include that of Laodicea ; either the Greek text itself extant in separate collections of canons of the Greek Church , in synopses and systematized collections ; or in Latin translations ., For , of the oriental translations , riot yet nearly

    described * in Paris , the Arabic codex above-mentioned was the only one which our inquirer found useful to his purpose . The following is a brief summary of the principal evidence which he has been able to derive from these sources . Most of the printed Greek collections of Synodical decrees have the scripture catalogue as a genuine part of the Laodicean canon ; but the greatest number of them rest upon the authority of manuscripts certainly not of greater antiquity than the twelfth century , since they contain the scholia of Zonaras and Balsamon , who lived about that tirneo On the other

    side is a printed Greek collection which rests upon manuscript authority of much greater antiquity . It was published by Tilius 5 an , 1540 , and republished by Ehinger , an . 1614 . In this state of the printed evidence , it becomes necessary to examine carefully the manuscript authorities , and to learn how the last Laodicean canon is situated in the codices of the Greek canons and whether it has suffered alteration ,, As we have no manuscript of a separate collection which appears to be older than the eighth century ,

    ihe greater antiquity of the canon in question must be proved from synopses , systematized collections ^ Latin or other tramslations 3 and special aicis 5 some of which go back to the fifth centuryo A very important evidence is a manuscript in the Bodleian Library , described in the catalogue of manuscripts of England and Ireland ( Oxon . 1697 ) , the Baroccian codex * It is a collection of Greek ecclesiastical decrees of greater antiquity than all the other known manuscripts . Its latest article , that of the second Nicene Council , is

    earlier than the year 787 . In this collection distinguished by its greatest antiquity , the Scripture Catalogue does not make a part of the Laodicean canons . Thus far the evidence of manuscripts is judged to be strongest against the genuineness of the disputed part of the canon . But theTe is very strong evidence on the other side proceeding from the Latin collections which contain what is called the Isidorian Version . Here the Scripture Catalogue stands in Ihe fifty-ninth Laodicean canon in unbroken and immediate connexion with that part of the canon of which the genuineness

    was never disputed * The value of this evidence appears from the history of the Versio Isidloria . It bears the name of one author ; but it has grown up by degrees to what it is in the Spanish collection of Synods . The Bishop of Rome at first acknowledged expressly and officially only the Greek decrees of the Nicene Council , and of them there were very early different translations . Afterwards other Symodical canons were translated into Latin by priyfttellra & ds * The first were those of the three Greek Councils , Ancyranum , TMeo-Caesariense , Gangrense—whether of Italian or African execution

    n ^ uipe & ie && r # anation . Ihese translations were the trunk of what was afterwards called the Isidorian Version * By degrees the translation of later Greek Sy » orils 8 iwla-S » i < ftad e ^; : iand the Laodicean came into the collection in the course of aim fifth ^ d © t » r 54 Itif > a $ sed £ ro > m Italy Into Gaul 9 and thence intoi Sp & in * Mferfritiftfgj ^ & GJjbe < tgrjfc > neoufely ascribed to one author . That the catalogue to jftLrigi cpjkKgion i & not an addition of the Latin translator is proved by the amqaattenl'fedt ^ 4 tiafc ; i faih & common Greek collection of canons the Scripture Q « ftalog » ienf * lw 3 > y ! s appears * .- at first indeed rather apart , ' then as ae integral

    812 Letters From Germany.

    812 Letters from Germany .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 812, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/12/