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The Sinaitic and Vatican Manuscripts and the Copies Sent by Eusebius to Constantine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Kirsopp Lake
Affiliation:
Harvard University

Extract

Eusebius in his Life of Constantine, chapters xxxvi f., gives an account of the MSS. of the Scriptures prepared in Cæsarea at the command of the Emperor for the use of the churches in Constantinople, owing to the remarkable increase in the number of Christians after the conversion of the court. His account ends with a sentence which according to Schwartz, whose opinion seems obviously correct, is unfortunately incomplete. ταῦτα μὲν οῦν βασιλεὺς διεκελεύετο αὐτίκα δ᾽ ἔργον ἐπηκολούθει τῷ λόγῳ, ἐν πολυτελῶς ἠσκημένοις τεύχεσιν τρισσὰ καὶ τετρασσὰ διαπεμψάντων ἡμῶν….

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1918

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