¹¹⁰ poo\j tou\j a0qewta/touj poluqe/ouj.

¹¹¹ Fragments of a second epistle of Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, or of the treatise which was inscribed the "Elenchus et Apologia." [A former epistle was written when Dionysius (of Rome) was a presbyter.]

¹¹² And in what follows (says Athanasius) he professes that Christ is always, as being the Word, and the Wisdom, and the Power.

¹¹³ Prov. viii. 30.

¹¹⁴ John iv. 24.

¹¹⁵ Scil. Wisdom.

¹¹⁶ Wisd. vii. 25.

¹¹⁷ From Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 18. [See remarks on inevitable discrepancies of language and figurative illustrations at this formative period, vol. iv. p. 223.]

¹¹⁸ Ex Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 17.

¹¹⁹ Ibid., 4. 20.

¹²⁰ Rom. ii. 13; Jas. iv. 12. The Greek word poihth/j meaning either maker or doer, causes the ambiguity here and below.

¹²¹ Isa. v. 7.

¹²² Athanasius adds (ut supra, 4. 21), that Dionysius gave various replies to those that blamed him for saying that God is the Maker of Christ, whereby he cleared himself.

¹²³ John i. 1. [For r9hma, see vol. ii. p. 15, this series.

¹²⁴ Ex Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 25. [P. 94, notes 1, 2, infra]

¹²⁵ John i. 1. [For r9hma, see vol. ii. p. 15, this series.

¹²⁶ Prov. viii. 30.

¹²⁷ Ex Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 18.

¹²⁸ Ex Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 25. [P. 94, notes 1, 2, infra]

¹²⁹ Ps. xlv. 1.

¹³⁰ Emanant. [P. 49, supra, and vol. iii. p. 299, this series.]

¹³¹ Sermonem [So Tertullian, Sermo, vol. iii. p. 299, note 19.]

¹³² Ex Basilio, lib. de Spir. Sancto, chap. 29.

¹³³ Ibid. cap. penult., p. 61.

¹³⁴ Of the work itself Athanasius thus speaks: Finally, Dionysius complains that his accusers do not quote his opinions in their integrity, but mutilated, and that they do not speak out of a good conscience, but for evil inclination; and he says that they are like those who cavilled at the epistles of the blessed apostle. Certainly he meets the individual words of his accusers, and gives a solution to all their arguments; and as in those earlier writings of his he confuted Sabellius most evidently, so in these later ones he entirely declares his own pious faith. [Conf. Hermas, vol. iii. p. 15, note 7,with note 2, supra.]

¹³⁵ Containing explanations which were given as answers to questions proposed by that bishop on various topics, and which have been received as canons. [The Scholium, p. 79, is transposed from here.]

¹³⁶ a\ponhstizesqai dei=. Gentianus Hervetus renders this by jejunandus sit dies Paschae; and thus he translates the word by jejunare, "to fast," wherever it occurs, whereas it rather means always, jejunium solvere, it "to have done fasting." In this sense the word is used in the Apostolic Constitutions repeatedly: see book v. chap. 12, 18, etc. It occurs in the same sense in the 89th Canon of the Concilium Trullanum. The usage must evidently be the same here: so that it does not mean, What is the proper hour for fasting on the day of Pentecost? but, What is the hour at which the ante-paschal fast ought to be terminated-whether on the evening preceding the paschal festival itself, or at cockcrowing, or at another time?-Gall. See also the very full article in Suicer, s.v.

¹³⁷ I give the beginning of this epistle of Dionysius of Alexandria also as it is found in not a few manuscripts, viz. e0pesteila/j moi...th= tou= pa/sxa perilusei,-the common reading being, th\n tou= pasxa h9me/ran. And the perilusij tou= pa/sxa denotes the close of the paschal fast, as Eusebius (Hist. Eccles. v. 23) uses the phrase ta\j tw=n a0sitiw=n e0piluseij,-the verbs perilu/ein, apolu/ein, e\pilu/ein, katalu/ein, being often used in this sense.-Cotelerius on the Apostolic Constitutions, v. 15.

¹³⁸ a0f' e9spe/raj.

¹³⁹ [Note this and the Nicene decision which made the Alexandrian bishop the authority concerning the paschal annually, vol. ii. Elucidation II. p. 343.]

¹⁴⁰ pa/nu memetrnme/nhn.

¹⁴¹ kata\ kairou\j e\nhllagme/nouj.

¹⁴² Matt. xxviii. 1.

¹⁴³ John xx. 1.

¹⁴⁴ th|= e0pifwskou/sh|= mia=| Sabba/twn.

¹⁴⁵ th= e\pifwskou/sh| ei0j mi/an Sabba/twn.

¹⁴⁶ Matt. xxviii. 1-6.

¹⁴⁷ koino/thta.

¹⁴⁸ nu/kta baqei/an.

¹⁴⁹ o\ye/, late.

¹⁵⁰ John xx. 1.

¹⁵¹ para/ tou=to...proelhluq/ei.

¹⁵² Luke xxiii. 56, xxiv. 1, 2.

¹⁵³ o@rqrou baqeoj.

¹⁵⁴ prou>\pofainome/nhn au0th/n e0wqinh\n e0mfanizei..

¹⁵⁵ Mark xvi. 1, 2.

¹⁵⁶ pro\ nukto/j e@gguj h@dh mesou/shj a0nie/ntaj.

¹⁵⁷ w9j par' o0ligon prokatalu/ontaj to\n dromon.

¹⁵⁸ [1 Tim. iv. 8. Mark the moderation of our author in contrast with superstition. But in our days the peril is one of an opposite kind. Contrast St. Paul, 2 Cor. xi. 27.]

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