WOODBROOKE STUDIES

CHRISTIAN DOCUMENTS IN SYRIAC, ARABIC,

AND GARSHUNI, EDITED AND TRANSLATED

WITH A CRITICAL APPARATUS

BY

A. MINGANA

VOLUME V

COMMENTARY OF THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA ON THE NICENE CREED

CAMBRIDGE

W. HEFFER & SONS LIMITED
1932

The present volume is the fifth in the series of Woodbrooke Studies, the contents of which are drawn from MSS. in my collection. Owing to the fact that I have relmquished ray duties in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, it was not foimd convenient to continue the publication of the ” Studies ” in serial parts in the ” Bulletin ” of that Library. Slight changes have accordingly been made in the preliminary matter as well as in the headings of the ” Studies,” and it is hoped that these will be found more suitable to works of this kind.

This volume contains the hitherto lost commentary of Theodore of Mopsuestia {c. 350-428) on the Nicene Creed, which is undoubtedly one of the most important theological works of the golden age of Christianity. In places I experienced some difficulty in following the author’s method of reasoning, but it may confidently be stated that the translation which I have adopted in the following pages reveals as accurately as possible the secret of the author’s argumentation, which is nearly always fresh and illuminating.

Short passages were by inadvertence omitted in the first part of the work, which was published in the January issue of the ” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library “. These have been inserted in the present edition together with some corrections.

It is a pleasing duty to offer here my sincerest thanks to Mr. ELdward Cadbury whose generosity has again made possible the publication of the ” Studies ” in their new form.

A. MINGANA.

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