Liturgies, eastern and western : being the texts, original or translated, of the principal liturgies of the church / edited with introductions and appendices by F.E. Brightman on the basis of the former work by C.E. Hammond. Vol. 1. Eastern liturgies.

  • Charles Edward Hammond
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1896
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    3. The same characteristics reappear unmistakably in the work of the pseudo-Ignatius, the interpolator of the seven genuine epistles and the forger of the remaining six of the long recension of the Ignatian Epistles. Hence the compiler of the Apostolic Constitutions is identical with the pseudo- 5 Ignatius. The identification of the pseudo-Ignatius with the compiler of A. C. was first made by Ussher (Polyc. et Ign. ep. Oxon. 1644, p. lxiii sq.), but was not commonly accepted until Lagarde (Ret. jur. eccl. ant. graec. p. vii), Harnack (die Lehre d. zwolf Apostel Leipz. 1886, pp. 241 sqq.) and Funk (pp. 316 sqq., where the 10 whole question is well discussed). Bp. Lightfoot {The Apostolic Fathers II. i. ed. 2, pp. 262 sqq.) did not consider the question, but confined himself to pointing out a number of correspondences between the long recension and A. C. and showing the priority of the latter (cp. Funk p. 342). But the characteristics of the long recension which he enumerates, pp. 246 sqq., and still more the tests 1- by which he establishes the authorship of Philippians, pp. 254 sqq., are largely applicable to the question of the authorship of A. C. and available to identify it with that of the long recension : while his argument for the priority of A. C. is fully satisfied if these be a prior work of the same author. In fact there is some development observable in the two works : with a growth in the 20 amount of interpolation as A. C. proceeds there is some change of characteristics, partly in the form of an intensification of those which are found throughout, partly in the introduction of new ones, and this culminates in the epistles, and the relation of bks. vii and viii to the epistles is perhaps closer than their relation to i-vi: in some respects the greatest interval is between vi and vii, 23 and it would perhaps be easier to question the identity of the compiler of i-vi with the compiler of vii and viii than to question the identity of the latter with pseudo-Ignatius. For the proof of identity see Harnack die Lehre d. zwolf Apostel, pp. 246 sqq., Funk pp. 322 sqq. For the present purpose it is enough to apply the test of the characteristics given above. (1) Of the single words 30 all but seven recur: so compounds with pev8o-: dat^y Svocrefirjs Ocoae^rjs: micovoia p.erauoia dp.uvoLa ‘ivvoia mpavoia: adjj. in -ikos : (piiau Magn. 4, Philip. 5, &c.: a/coiicu in the same use Mar.-Ign. 3, Magn. 3, Tars. 6. (2) There are the same characteristics of style, however modified by the necessities of the Ignatian parody: esp. ovn . . . d\\a, ov piovov . . . dk\a nai, and 7 ap. (3) The same 33 repetition of topics : see Funk’s parallels, pp. 322 sqq. (4) A use of Scripture the same in every respect. The reading of Matt. v. 45 (A. C. ii. 14 § 4 : vii. 2 § 2) is found in Philad. 3 : and notice the combinations in Philad. 3 and vi. 18 § 2, 3 : Ant. 2 and v. 20 § 3 : Ant. 3 and v. 16 § 2 : Trail. 10 and v. 19 § 3, 6. (5) The theological commonplaces are repeated : 6 fls ml pt-uvos aKr/Oiuds Oeos Magn. 11, 40 Ant. 2, 4 : 6 twv o\ojv 6eus Philip. 1 : u Im varroov 6cus Tars. 2, Philip. 7 : deus p.ovoyevr]s Philad. 6: Ocus \6yos Magn. 6, Tars. 4, 6, Philip. 2, &c.: the subordi- nation of the Son and of the Holy Ghost emphasized Philip. 12, Eph. 9 ; TrpcxjTOTOKos nacres KTicreais Tars. 4, Sniyrn. 1, Eph. 20 : the Son as highpriest