are of no slight value, whether considered in relation to the fact that several of them were made nigh upon the times of the original authors, or that others, of which there are exemplars in the British Museum,* were written long before the oldest manuscript of the originals now extant; or, finally, that by this means treatises at first written in Greek, but which, from having perished in that language, were known in Europe only by their titles, or a few fragments in ancient authors, have been preserved to the world. Such are the Paschal Letters of Athanasius, and the Theophany of Eusebius of Cesarea. But many of the translations enumerated in the following list are probably irrecoverably lost.† IGNATIUS, whom the Syrians call NURANA, "Light or Fire" [q. d. igneus=Ignatius:] Epistles to Polycarp, the Ephesians, and Romans. CLEMENT. The Recognitions; (?) the Apostolical Canons. (?) DIONYSIUS. The Celestial Hierarchy. TATIAN. A Diatessaron. This arrangement of the four Gospels was accompanied, according to Bar-Salib, with a Commentary by Ephrem. MELITO, bishop of Sardis. An Oration. Compare Eusebius, H. E. iv. 26. AFRICANUS. Commentaries and Chronicon. GREGORY THAUMATURGUS. Tracts. HIPPOLYTUS. Commentaries on St. John's Gospel and part of the Apocrypha; a treatise on the Incarnation; a book " against Gaius ;" and a defence of the Apocalypse. ATHANASIUS. Epistles, Orations, Apology, Life of St. Anthony, and a tract, inscribed to Epictetus. * Obtained from a monastery in Egypt by the Rev. Henry Tat tam. + I have inserted them on the authority of Ebed-Jesu's Mimra, art. 3-48. METHODIUS. A work "on the Succession of Generations," (Ebed-Jesu,) and Epistles. ZENOBIUS, against Marcion and Pamphylium. EUSEBIUS of Cesarea: Ecclesiastical History; Theophania; (translated into English by professor Lee, from the copy brought from Egypt by the Rev. Mr. Tattam ;) Chronicon, Harmony of the Gospels and Canons; Topography of the Holy Land, Life of Constantine, Apology for Origen, the Martyrs of Palestine, and two Orations. AMMONIUS, a disciple of St. Anthony: Epistles. EUSEBIUS of Emesa: against the Jews; Questions on the Old Testament, and a Homily. TITUS, bishop of Bostra: against the Manicheans; imperfect in the Greek, but complete in the Syriac translation. MACARIUS. The Ascetical Treatise. MARCUS. Ethical sentences or common-places. JOHN, an Egyptian monk: a small ascetical Treatise. ISAIA, monk: Ten Homilies. AMMONIUS, monk: Epistles. DIODORUS Of Tarsus: On the Incarnation; on Astro logy. BASIL the Great: on the Work of the Six Days, Orations, Epistles, Treatise on the Holy Spirit, and the larger Rule. GREGORY NYSSEN. Exposition of the Lord's Prayer ; on the Evangelic Beatitudes; Homilies. GREGORY NAZIANZEN. Many of his works in prose and iambic verse were translated in five volumes. EVAGRIUS of Pontus: A celebrated work on the active and contemplative Life. PALLADIUS. The Lausiac History, entitled, "Paradise ; an account of the Acts and Discourses of the most eminent Egyptian Monks, in three parts, to which a fourth was subsequently added by St. Jerome. EPIPHANIUS, on "the Divine Manifestation,” 07 Low Lust "On Heresies." CHRYSOSTOM: Homilies on Matthew, John, and the apostolical Epistles; Treatises on the Priesthood and Baptism; Discourses against the Jews, on Penitence, on the Monks of Egypt, and on Consolation. PROCLUS, successor to Chrysostom at Constantinople : various Tracts. NILUS, monk, disciple of Chrysostom: Ascetical Tracts. THEODORE, bishop of Mopsuestia, surnamed Maphashkona, or the "Commentator: " voluminous Expositions of the Holy Scriptures; fifteen books on the Incarnation; Treatises on the Faith, on the Holy Spirit, the Sacraments, the Creation, and on Sin; against Eunomius, against Magic, against the Allegorists, against Apollinarius, with various smaller tracts. XYSTUS. A Discourse on the Love of God. NESTORIUS, Patriarch of Constantinople: Homilies, Orations, and Epistles. CYRIL of Alexandria. The greater number of his works were translated into Syriac at the time of the Nestorian controversy. Among these, the Commentary on St. Luke, lost in the Greek, excepting a few fragments in the Catenæ, is still extant. THEODORET, bishop of Cyrus, on the Incarnation; Philotheus, or the Monastic Life; a Treatise against Origen; a Solution of the Chapters of St. Cyril; a Commentary on Daniel, an Ecclesiastical History, a Defence of Diodorus and Theodore, Epistles on various subjects. IRENEUS, count of the empire, commissary of the emperor at the council of Ephesus: Historical Details on the Nestorian Controversy. Conf. DUPIN, Biblioth. tome iii. part. 2, p. 119. N SOCRATES. The Ecclesiastical History, and a His tory of the Emperors Constantine and Jovian. EUTHERIUS. A disputation against the Theopaschitæ ; Homilies, and an Exposition of the Gospel. THEOPHILUS PERSA. An Answer to the Chapters of St. Cyril, and a book against Dositheus. THEODULOS, a disciple of Theodore of Mopsuestia, Commentaries on Isaiah, and a work on the Psalms. BASILIUS CILEX. Interpretations, ["Turgomee,"] and "various documents." ISIDORE of Pelusium: Epistles. JACOB, a disciple of the foregoing: a Commentary on Jeremiah, Matthew, and the apostolical Epistles. TIMOTHEUS, patriarch of Alexandria: an History of the Council of Chalcedon. AQUELINUS. A Commentary, selected from the older expositors on Matthew and John. PHILOTHEUS. A Commentary on Ezekiel, and a treatise on Medicine. ERANISTES. "A Disputation." Ebed Jesu. JOHN, bishop of Ephesus: an Ecclesiastical History. CANONS of the Councils of Nice, Ancyra, Neocæsarea, Gangra, Laodicea, Constantinople, Ephesus, Antioch, Chalcedon, and the second of Ephesus. LITURGIES: several from the Greek.-See ante, pages 186-236. STATUTES of the emperors Constantine, Leo, and Theodosius. END OF THE CONSPECTUS. |