Syriac Miscellanies Or Extracts Relating To The First And Second General Councils And Various Other Quotations Theological Historical And Classical

Author : B. H. Cowper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332524726
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Syriac Miscellanies written by B. H. Cowper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Syriac Miscellanies: Or Extracts Relating to the First and Second General Councils, and Various Other Quotations, Theological, Historical,& Classical; Translated Into English From Mss; In the British Museum and Imperial Library of Paris As well as for the student of ancient geography. The fragments from Greek authors are obscure, and include some names with which I am otherwise unacquainted. Their chief interest arises from the fact that they clearly form part of some document of the nature of an apology, and are; therefore, in all probability, very ancient. It is well known that the apologists of the second and third centuries defended Christianity by ccpious citations from Pagan writers, and this is constructed on the same plan, as the conclusion shows. The extracts from Diocles may not be free from interpolation, but they claim to represent the first historian of Rome, a historian from whom, Plu tarch tells us, Fabius Pictor drew largely. As to the extracts from Christian authors, they are merely speci mens of thousands contained in the mss., and yet present some points of interest. The matters drawn from the old Syriac Chronicle may furnish the student of history with a few facts, and among them the list of the first successors of Mahomet is peculiarly interesting. This ms. Belongs to the 8th century, and 1s evidently a compilation from the Chronicle ascribed to Hippolytus, that of Eusebius, and others. The notice of two martyrologies is simply, intended to show that at a very early period the legends of superstition were not confined to the Western world. 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.