108 George Dahl, 



many years after 649 Stephanus continued his work we do not 

 know'. 



ZACHAKIUS. 



From the works of St. John of Damascus (died between 963-969 

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

 Zacharius, bishop of Dor (written Aoapwv)'. 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, perhaps from the sixth or seventh cen- 

 tury. Lequien's statement is as follows: 



Extat inter opera S. Joannis Damasceni novae editionis Paris. 

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

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

 Pro Aoa/ocDv autem legendum arbitror Awpcuv 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 seu Hierosolymitana. Quum vero non constet quandonam 

 vixerit Petrus ille, pariter etiam huius Zachariae aevum deiiniri 

 accurate non potest. Eius porro hie meminimus, ex hopothesi quod 

 reipsa fuerit, aliquo tempore, Dororum in Palestina episcopus, 

 Zacharias nuncupatus. 



' Lequien, III, p. 580. 



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

 Presbyteri Hierosolymitani (Venetiis, 1748). 

 ' Cp. Bishop John, p. 105. 



