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A36047	The exposition of Dionysius Syrus written above 900 years since on the evangelist St. Mark / translated by Dudley Loftus ... anno 1672 ; wherewith are bound up several other tracts of the same authour, and an ancient Syriack scholia on the four evangelists, as also some Persian, Armenian, and Greek antiquities, translated as aforesaid : the titles whereof are set down immediately after the Epistle to the reader, with refereuce [sic] to the several pages where they are.	Dionysius Exiguus, d. ca. 540.; Loftus, Dudley, 1619-1695.	1672 (1672)	Wing D1525; ESTC R37278	110,280	261

things and particularly on Dionysius the Areopagite concerning the Angels and h●eir Hierarchy As touching Severus whom so far as I can gather from deliberate conjecture I take to be Severus Alexandrinus Genebrard in his Chronography reduceth his Prelacy in that Church to the Year of our Lord 646 though others upon a more exact Chronography of Ecclesiastical Annals make him to have liv'd after Peter Patriarch of Alexandria who govern'd in that See Ten Years and succeeded Cyrus who died An. 640. according to the Chronology of Nicephorus he wrote in the Syriack Language Some would make this Severus an Eutichian Heretick mistaking him for Severus Antiochenus of whom Nicephorus writes thus Doctrinam hic tuebatur Entichis de confusis duabus naturis in Christo And upon this mistake perhaps the Translator of Severus in the Bibliotheca Patrum gives the name of Alexandrinus to the other which the Original doth not Our Severus is term'd among his Countreymen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Severus the mouth of all the Doctors which could not have been his Attribute had he been an Eutichian for the Heresie of Eutiches was never more vigorously nor with more reason oppugned than by Dionysius and other Doctors of that Nation as appears by many passages of his and of theirs in his Exposition on the Four Gospels This Severus is celebrated as for many other Tracts so also for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 often quoted by Dionysius Syrus and Bar Cepha He hath several Sermons bound up with the Sermons of other Authours in a Syriack Manuscript now remaining in Trinity Colledge Library in Dublin wherein I find this Passage worthy to be inserted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Christ for an Establishment placed the Holy Apostles First in the Holy Church but afterwards that happiness might abound and be propagated they ordained to every Order and Degree therein those who from them and by their hands received Deduction conferring on the Bishops those things which did belong to the High Priests and to Presbyters those things which were peculiar to the Priests and to the Deacons those things which were peculiar to their Administration to the intent that those things which did appertain to the Priestly Function might be decently performed according to the consonancy and requisition of Administrations Whence it appeareth That Bishops are the Apostles Successors and at least of Apostolick institution And that they are of a different Order from Presbyters and that there is a perpetual succession and it seems also hereby That there are no more Orders in the Church of Apostolick institution than those of Bishop Priest and Deacon and that there is subordination of Orders in the Church according to that of Tim. 3.13 For they who have used the Office of a Deacon well purchase to themselves a good Degree That is to say a greater Degree For though the Greek there useth the Positive Degree 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as also several ancient Versions Yet I concieve it is to be taken in a comparative sense by way of Enallagie of the Positive For the Comparative according to that of Mat. 18.8 Bonum tibi est ingredi in vitam claudum quàm duas manus c. And Mark 14.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Good were it for that man that he had never been born i. e. better in which sense it is taken by the Aethiopick Translator in that place viz. 1 Tim. 3.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They who minister well purchase to themselves a greater imposition viz. of hands of the Bishop For 1 Tim. 4. v. 4. The Aethiopick expresly explains who had the power of laying on of hands in these very words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Laying on the hands of Bishops But that I may not proceed too far in digression I must return to the File of my former Discourse and in the next place speak of Bar Cepha Bar Cepha seems to have been contemporary with Severus or to have liv'd within a very short time after him for he wrote before the Year 700 and cites Severus Bellarmine takes notice That this Bar Cepha quotes Athanasius Cyril and Chrysostom sine splendida ulla verborum praefatione But he would not have laid any particular blame on him for that reason had he known or considered That both Dionysius Syrus and other Syriack Authours use the same plainness in naming the best of Greek and Syriack Fathers without the addition of any Title of Honour I have no more to say of Philoxenus Mabugensis than that he was a Bishop and that his authority is often made use of by Dionysius Syrus and that he is quoted by Moses Bar Cepha 1 par cap. 20. As to Jacobus Sarugensis I shall say no more here than what I have spoken of the aforementioned Philoxenus I intending to prefix a large Discourse of the abovenamed and many other Authours quoted by our Dionysius to the Latin Edition of his Exposition on the Four Gospels As to the Book out of which I have Translated this Treatise of Dionysius on St Mark and other passages of the same Authour herewith published take notice Reader That it is a fair Manuscript which the most learned and renowned Vsserius late Lord Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland purchased chased for a great sum of Money together with the Samaritan Pentateuch and other Syriack Manuscripts at Antiech the which he caused to be transported thence into Ireland Forty Years fince or thereabouts and now belongs to the Library of Trinity Colledge in the University of Dublin which together with other loose Flowers I thought fit to bind up in this Nosegay which I here present to thy acceptance in their Native sincerity without any extrinsick blemish of a forc't or a corrupt Translation hoping that thou wilt improve such Truths as are therein contained and have been so long smothered in an unknown Tongue as a help or furtherance to use and advantage which that thou mayest do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God be thy help The several Titles of Syriack Armenian Persian and Greek Treatises annexed to the Exposition of Dionysius Syrus on St. MARK DIonysius Syrus his Exposition on the Ten Beatitudes pronounced in the Fifth chapter of Saint Matthew c. Page 63 Dionysius his Exposition on the Prophesie of Zacharias Page 77 The Exposition of Dionysius Syrus on the Magnificat Page 81 Dionysius his Exposition on Simeon's Nunc dimittas his Benediction and his Prophesie Page 85 Dionysius Syrus his Exposition on the Ave Maria Page 89 An Exposition of the Lords Prayer taken out of Dionysius Syrus his Catena on the sixth chapter of St. Matthew Page 91 The Form of Prayer which our Saviour made after his Baptism when the Heavens were opened as it is delivered by Dionysius Syrus according to the Testimony of St. Philoxenus Page 97 Dionysius Syrus his Question and Answer concerning the Form of Prayer which John the Baptist taught his Disciples Page 99 Gregorius the Syriack Scholiast called 〈◊〉