The Apostolic Fathers S Clement Of Rome A Revised Text With Introductions Notes Dissertations And Translations 2d Ed 1890 2 V PDF Download

Excerpt from The Apostolic Fathers, Vol. 2: Part I. S. Clement of Rome; A Revised Text With Introductions, Notes, Dissertations, and Translations The authorities for the text are three in number, two Greek manuscripts and a Syriac version. (i) Codex Alexandrinus (A), where the Epistles of Clement are added to the New Testament; an uncial manuscript probably belonging to the fifth century. It is fully described above, i. p. 116 sq. It is much blurred and worn, and a leaf has disappeared towards the end of the First Epistle. All deviations from this authority in my text are noted in the apparatus criticus beneath. The lacunae in this manuscript are not stated, except where a various reading is concerned; but a complete list is given at the end of the Epistles. (2) Codex Constantinopolitanus (C), a cursive manuscript dated A.D.1056, and containing the whole of the Two Epistles. It is described fully above, I. p. 121 sq. (3) Syriac Version (S), where the Epistles of Clement are found incorporated among the Epistles of the New Testament in the Philoxenian (Harclean) version. The extant manuscript is dated A.D. 1170. This authority also is described fully in the introduction, I. p. 129 sq. How far this version may be accepted as evidence for the text, and to what extent it seemed advisable to record the variations from the Greek, I have there stated with sufficient precision. The relations of our three authorities to each other, and the value to be assigned to each, are considered at length in the general introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.