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15 But our annalist gives May 3, while Fest Ind. gives May 2, the day solemnised in the Coptic Martyrologies (Mai, Script. Vett. vol. 4, part 2, pp. 29, 114), and doubtless the right one. Perhaps, if Athanasius died in the night of May 2-3, the former day might be chosen for his commemoration, while our annalist may still be literally exact.

16 See Tillera. viii. 719 sqq.

17 Corrected from §§5, 17. infr.; text `xvi.'

1 This heading, preserved in the Evagrian version, is probably the original one. Compare the statement to the same effect in Vit. Pachom. 63. The preface to the Evagrian version is important as bearing on the question of interpolation. It runs as follows: `Evagrius, presbyter, to his dearest son Innocent, greeting in the Lord. A word-for-word translation from one language to another obscures the sense and as it were chokes the corn with luxuriant grass. For in slavishly following cases and constructions, the language scarcely explains by lengthy periphrasis what it might state by concise expression. To avoid this, I have at your request rendered the Life of the blessed Antony in such a way as to give the full sense, but cut short somewhat of the words. Let others try to catch syllables and letters; do you seek the meaning.'

2 Cf 2 Kings iii. 11: the expression merely refers to personal attendance (contrast §§47, 93). The text is uncertain, as some mss., both Greek and Latin read, `was able to learn from him who was his attendant,' &c. The question of textual evidence requires further sifting. In support of the statement in the text we may cite Ap. c. Ar. 6, where Ath. is called `one of the ascetics,' which may, but need not, refer to something of the kind.

3 At Coma in Upper Egypt, see Sozom. i. 13.

4 Cf. St. Aug. de Doctr. Christ. Prologue.

5 Gen. xxv. 27.

6 Matt. iv. 20.

7 Acts iv. 35.

8 Matt. xix 21.

9 arourai. The arura was 100 Egyptian cubits square, see Herod. ii. 168.

10 Or, perhaps, `in order that they (the villagers) might have no occasion to trouble himself and his sister,' i.e. on condition of future immunity from taxes, &c. (so Neander).

11 Matt. vi. 34.

12 IIarqenwn: the earliest use of the word in this sense. Perhaps a house occupied by Virgins is implied in Apol. c. Ar. 15. But at this time virgins generally lived with their families. See D.C.A. 2021b (the reference to Tertullian is not relevant), Eichhorn, pp. 4, sqq., 28-30.

13 askhsj (so throughout the Vita).

14 Probably the word has in this place the sense of a monk's cell (D.C.A. 1220), as below, §39.

15 2 Thess. iii. 10.

16 Matt. vi. 7; 1 Thess. v. 17.

17 Job xl. 16 (v. 11 LXX): the descriptions of behemoth and leviathan are allegorically referred to Satan, cf. Orat. i. 1, note 5. and below, §24, Ep. Aeg. 3.

18 Cf. de Incar. 8. 2; 10. 5.

19 1 Cor. xv. 10.

20 For visible appearances of devils, see `Phantasms of the Living,' vol. 2, p. 266, &c. (Trübner, 1886).

21 Hosea iv. 12.

22 Ps. cxviii. 7.

23 Rom. viii. 3 andRom. viii. 4.

24 Eph. vi. 11.

25 1 Cor. ix. 27; Ath. (with many fathers and uncials) appears to have read upopiazw, the reading which is followed by the Authorised Version.

26 2 Cor. xii. 10.

27 Phil. iii. 14.

28 1 Kings xviii. 15.

29 Rom. viii. 35.

30 Ps. xxvii. 3.

31 Cf. Acts viii. 20.

32 Cf. de Incarn. xlvii. 2.

33 Ps. lxviii. 1.

34 Ps. cxviii. 10. Evagr. renders by 'vindicavi in eis.

35 Rom. viii. 32.

36 Between the Nile and the Fayûm.

37 Compare c. Gent. 1, de Synod. 6.

38 Ps. xc. 10. (LXX).

39 Rom. viii. 18.

40 Eccl. iv. 8, Eccl. vi. 2.

41 Ezek. xviii, 26.

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