(From the "Works of the apostolic Fathers" of Karl Josef von Hefele, <published> at Tubingen, 1842, in octavo)
Author: Karl Josef von Hefele
II. Since in the <time> of Clement a most grave dissension broke out among brothers[[19]], the Roman Church wrote a most splendid epistle to the Corinthians, by which it recalled them to peace and concord, and renewed their faith that the tradition which they had recently received from the apostles. Thus <writes> Irenaeus[[20]]. Eusebius reports that our Clement wrote this epistle <in> the names of the Roman Church[[21]]; and many others of the ancients mention this epistle. But before the <17th> century, all theologians of the middle and earlier age lamented this epistle of the apostolic Father <as> lost.
However, in the year 1632 Cyril Lucaris, the Constantinopolitan patriarch, gave as a gift to Charles I, king of the English, a most ancient codex of the Old and New Testaments; and behold, at the end of this most excellent Alexandrian codex was found that epistle of Clement, so long desired[[22]], with a fragment of another book, which the catalog prefixed to the codex designates with these letters: "....ent's e....le B"[[23]], that is, "Clement's epistle 2".
Both these epistle<s> of Clement from that most ancient codex, first of all at Oxford <in> 1633 Patrick Young published, the librarian of the king of the English; <and he> supplied and noted in lead the lost words and letters eaten away by age, <having> carefully, as I think, measured the spaces and interstices. But his edition and all <other editions> measured against the Youngian, suffer from not a few faults. By which it was done that Henry Wotton, <master of the arts> from the College of St. John the Evangelist, carefully inspected the <manuscript> codex anew and emended and filled out the Youngian text <eighty times>. Thus came out <in> 1718 at Cambridge the Wottonian edition, in which you find printed in smaller characters <those things> which were absent from the manuscript exemplar. Gallandi with the highest judgment considered that this edition should be followed by himself, who moreover in <preparing his edition> used the notes and conjectures of other learned men, Mill, <Antoine> Birr, Frey, etc. Finally, <in> the year 1839 at Oxford from the academic press came out the most elegant edition of William Jacobson, who again opened the Alexandrian codex, emended the text here and there, proposed learned conjectures, and added his own to the annotations of others[[24]].
Notes
19. The sedition had been <put in motion> against the presbyters (chapter 47), who were unjustly being cast out of their offices (chapter 44). Schenkel (in Ullmann's "Studies and Critiques", 1841, fascicle I, page 53 <and following>) asserts that that faction which <used to boast> to be of Christ, <had come back to life>, and just as <it had spurned and rejected> the authority of the apostles, this also <it> spurned and rejected the authority of the presbyters, who had been established by the apostles. But Clement himself well distinguishes the more recent sedition of the Corinthians from that prior <one>, chapter 47.
20. "Against Heresies", III, 3. In Eusebius, "Ecclesiastical History", book 5, chapter 6.
21. "Ecclesiastical History", book 3, chapters 16 and 38.
22. The manuscript codex provides the epigraph: "Epistle of the Clement to the Corinthians". Cf. Jacobson, "Apostolic Fathers", tome 1, page 203.
23. Cf. Jacobson, <in the cited place>, page xi[[A]]. The manuscript codes proffers not even a complete letter of the inscription in front of the epistle itself. Jacobson, <in the cited place>, page 214.
24. [[B]]"What survives of St. Clement the Roman, St. Ignatius, and St. Polycarp, the apostolic Fathers. The Martyrdoms of St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp <are added>. William Jacobson, master of arts, vice principal of the [court] of the blessed Mary Magdalene, recently a member of Exeter college, reviewed <these> against the reliability of the codices, illuminated <them> with the notes of various <men> and his own <notes>, <and> furnished <them> with indices. 2 tomes."
My Notes
A. This pagination appears to be from the first edition of Jacobson's work.
B. This is the full title of the publication.
However, in the year 1632 Cyril Lucaris, the Constantinopolitan patriarch, gave as a gift to Charles I, king of the English, a most ancient codex of the Old and New Testaments; and behold, at the end of this most excellent Alexandrian codex was found that epistle of Clement, so long desired[[22]], with a fragment of another book, which the catalog prefixed to the codex designates with these letters: "....ent's e....le B"[[23]], that is, "Clement's epistle 2".
Both these epistle<s> of Clement from that most ancient codex, first of all at Oxford <in> 1633 Patrick Young published, the librarian of the king of the English; <and he> supplied and noted in lead the lost words and letters eaten away by age, <having> carefully, as I think, measured the spaces and interstices. But his edition and all <other editions> measured against the Youngian, suffer from not a few faults. By which it was done that Henry Wotton, <master of the arts> from the College of St. John the Evangelist, carefully inspected the <manuscript> codex anew and emended and filled out the Youngian text <eighty times>. Thus came out <in> 1718 at Cambridge the Wottonian edition, in which you find printed in smaller characters <those things> which were absent from the manuscript exemplar. Gallandi with the highest judgment considered that this edition should be followed by himself, who moreover in <preparing his edition> used the notes and conjectures of other learned men, Mill, <Antoine> Birr, Frey, etc. Finally, <in> the year 1839 at Oxford from the academic press came out the most elegant edition of William Jacobson, who again opened the Alexandrian codex, emended the text here and there, proposed learned conjectures, and added his own to the annotations of others[[24]].
Notes
19. The sedition had been <put in motion> against the presbyters (chapter 47), who were unjustly being cast out of their offices (chapter 44). Schenkel (in Ullmann's "Studies and Critiques", 1841, fascicle I, page 53 <and following>) asserts that that faction which <used to boast> to be of Christ, <had come back to life>, and just as <it had spurned and rejected> the authority of the apostles, this also <it> spurned and rejected the authority of the presbyters, who had been established by the apostles. But Clement himself well distinguishes the more recent sedition of the Corinthians from that prior <one>, chapter 47.
20. "Against Heresies", III, 3. In Eusebius, "Ecclesiastical History", book 5, chapter 6.
21. "Ecclesiastical History", book 3, chapters 16 and 38.
22. The manuscript codex provides the epigraph: "Epistle of the Clement to the Corinthians". Cf. Jacobson, "Apostolic Fathers", tome 1, page 203.
23. Cf. Jacobson, <in the cited place>, page xi[[A]]. The manuscript codes proffers not even a complete letter of the inscription in front of the epistle itself. Jacobson, <in the cited place>, page 214.
24. [[B]]"What survives of St. Clement the Roman, St. Ignatius, and St. Polycarp, the apostolic Fathers. The Martyrdoms of St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp <are added>. William Jacobson, master of arts, vice principal of the [court] of the blessed Mary Magdalene, recently a member of Exeter college, reviewed <these> against the reliability of the codices, illuminated <them> with the notes of various <men> and his own <notes>, <and> furnished <them> with indices. 2 tomes."
My Notes
A. This pagination appears to be from the first edition of Jacobson's work.
B. This is the full title of the publication.
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