The Homilies On The Acts Of The Apostles Translated With Notes And Indices PDF Download

Excerpt from The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2: Translated, With Notes and Indices; Hom; XXIX-LV For there is another and a widely different text, by which alone, unfortunately, these Homilies have been known in modem times, except by the few who have had access to Manuscripts. In the National Library at Paris there is (no. 729) a manuscript (in our notes marked E, in Par. Ben. 2, which the Parisian Editor describes thus Quorum. (of six Mss. On the Acts) antiquissi/mus, oh'm Colb. Nunc Reg. 729, swc. X., m'tide et accurate scriptus, desinit in Item. Quinguagesima. (this is a mistake; it reaches to the end of the 55th.) Of the other Mss. He assigns a.b. C. (no. 6, to the twelfth, fourteenth, and thirteenth centuries respectively. These, and a copy in the Library of New College (n), contain the old text. Two others D, F, (728, and 73 suppl.) exhibit a text compiled from old and new, and with alterations peculiar to itself. Of the six Parisian Mss. A full collation was made for 'the Library of the Fathers of N, we have at present but a partial collation. 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.