Atkinson — On Prof. Eossi's South- Coptic Texts. 4S 



46. The translation of the following passage will be of interest ta 

 the student of ecclesiastical history [15, 20] : 



anok de tihomolog'ei lo poi confesso 



utetrias etwaab la Triade Santa, 



emS popj soop senza alcmia separazwie 



ntmntnTrte della divinifd, 



wte messibe che non genera mutazione, 



wte mespdone non genera divisione, 



wte mestako non produce perdita, S;e. 



Now, probably the theologian would feel inclined to think he had 

 come upon a new version of the Athanasian creed in the expression : 

 "the Holy Trinity, which does not generate change, and does not 

 generate division, and does ji.ot produce distinction" ! But it is simply 

 a blunder of the editor, who has taken mes to be a verb in con- 

 struction with sibe, poone and tako, and meaning "to briug 

 forth", in other words a form of mise ; whereas this mes is 

 nothing but the negative aorist prefix \ The words messibe, &c. 

 mean, "the Holy Trinity does not change — is not ivont to change, 

 &c.", with the full force of this negative ^ri^se??^ consuetudinal. 



47. The nest quotation is from a passage which the editor has 

 despaired of, largely on account of the word euajiphoros , which 

 is to him altogether unknown, " affatto ignota''\ [16 a 24] : 



netnaratsutm de quelli che non uhhidiranno 



nsetmhomolog^ei e non la confesseranno, 



euajiiihoros (r) iuptako si perderarmo {^) 



narios con Ario. 



Obviously, it was a meaning of this kind that was intended to be 

 conveyed, but the editor does not attempt to solve the enigma in the 

 word referred to. Probably the change of a single letter will give 

 the solution : 



eue-ji phoros mptako n-Arios 

 "they will get the opos of the destruction of Arius". 



48. The prepositions are a great stumbling-block to the editor, 

 who has not realised how definite is their usage. Thus he edits 

 [18, 13] "(his countenance was full of anger against us, but it did 

 not cause us any anxiety), 



etbe pnoc neoiv a causa della grande gloria 



ntanei nhetf che in noi ne veniva; 



on account of the great glory which came into us from thence". The 



