108 George Dahl, 



many years after 649 Stephanas continued his work we do not 

 know'. 



ZACHAEIUS. 



From the works of St. John of Damascus (died between 903-960 

 A. D.) Lequien quotes" the title of a letter from Peter Mansur to 

 Zacharius, bishop of Dor (written Aodpwvy. Inasmuch as we know 

 nothing further about either the sender or the receiver of this letter, 

 it is not possible to determine its date. It would seem, however, 

 that we have had preserved for us here a copy of a letter sent to 

 one of the bishops of Dor, pei'haps from the sixth or seventh cen- 

 tury. Lequien's statement is as follows: 



Extat inter ojiera S. Joannis Damasceni novae editionis Paris. 

 1712. to I, p. 655 A, 'epistola sanctissimi Petri Mansur ad Zacha- 

 riam episcopum Doarum Aoa/jwv, de corpore & sanguine Christi.' 

 Pro Aoapwv autem legendum arbitror Awpwv Dororum. Auctor 

 enim huius epistolae, qui non fuit ipse sanctus Joannes Damascenus, 

 cuius nee doctrinam refert, videtur commoratus in Palestina, 

 quippe qui pag. 655 A. quaedam verba recitat ex liturgia sancti 

 Jacobi sen Hierosolymitana. Quum vero non constet quandonam 

 vixerit Petrus ille, pariter etiam huius Zachariae aevum definiri 

 accurate non j^otest. Eius porro hie meminimus, ex hopothesi quod 

 reipsa fuerit, aliquo tempore, Dororum in Palestina episcopus, 

 Zacharias nuncupatus. 



1 Lequien, III, p. 580. 



- Oriens Christianus, III, p. 580; Opera Joannis Damasceni Monachi et 

 Presbyteri Hierosolymitani (Venetiis, 1748). 

 ^ Cp. Bishop John, p. 105. 



