Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Introductory Notice to The Decretals.
- The First Epistle.
- The Second Epistle.
- I. On the Spoliation or Expulsion of certain Bishops.
- II. On the Ordination of Presbyters and Deacons.
- Notes by the American Editor.
- The First Epistle.
- I. (Of the seasons for fasting.)
- II. (Of accusations against doctors.)
- Introduction
- I. (Of those who conspire against bishops, or who take part with such.)
- II. (Of those who have intercourse with excommunicated persons, or with unbelievers.)
- III. (That no bishop should presume in anything pertaining to another's parish, and of the transference of bishops.)
- IV. (Of marriages among blood-relations, and of those who are born of them; and of accusations which the laws reject.)
- V. (Of those who ought not to be admitted to prefer an accusation, or to bear witness; and that evidence is not to be given but on things happening in the person's presence.)
- VI. (As to whether a priest may minister after a lapse.)
- Note by the American Editor.
- Introduction
- I. Of the life in common, and of the reason why the Church has begun to hold property.
- II. Of the persons by whom, and the uses for which, ecclesiastical property should be managed, and of the invaders thereof.
- III. As to any one's attempting to take from the Church the right of holding property.
- IV. Of the seats of the bishops.
- V. That no one should have intercourse with those with whom the bishop has no intercourse, or receive those whom he rejects.
- VI. Of the engagement made in baptism, and of those who have given themselves to the life in common.
- VII. Of the imposition of the bishop's hand.
- The First Epistle.
- The Second Epistle.
- Note by the American Editor.
- Pope Anterus.
- The First Epistle. To All the Ministers of the Church Catholic.
- The Second Epistle. To All the Bishops of the East.
- I. That new chrism should be made every year, and the old be burnt.
- II. Of the right of bishops not to be accused or hurt by detraction.
- The Third Epistle.
- I. Of those who ought not to be admitted to the right of accusation.
- II. Of extraneous judgments.
- III. Of the arraigned.
- IV. Of the case of any one bringing forward a charge in passion, or failing to prove his allegations.
- V. On the question of an accused bishop appealing to the seat of the apostles.
- Note by the American Editor.
- Decrees of Fabian.
- The Decrees of the Same, from the Codex of Decrees in Sixteen Books, from the Fifth Book, and the Seventh and Ninth Chapters.
- Elucidations.
- Introductory Notice to Memoirs of Edessa and Other Syriac Documents.
- Ancient Syriac Documents Relating to the Earliest Establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the Neighbouring Countries.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. A Canticle of Mar Jacob the Teacher on Edessa.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. Extracts from Various Books Concerning Abgar the King and Addæus the Apostle.
- I. Of the blessed Addæus the apostle. From his teaching which he gave in Edessa before Abgar the King and the assembly of the city.
- II. From the teaching of Addæus the apostle, which was spoken in the city of Edessa.
- III. From the epistle of Addæus the apostle, which he spake in the city of Edessa.
- IV. Addæus preached at Edessa and in Mesopotamia
- V. For they did not suffer that selection of the Seventy-two to be wanting
- VI. From the departure of Marath Mary from the world, and the birth and childhood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Book the Second.
- VII. From the homily composed by the holy Mar Jacob, the teacher, on the fall of idols.
- VIII. From the homily about the town of Antioch.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. The Teaching of Addæus the Apostle.
- Syriac Calendar.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. The Teaching of the Apostles.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. The Teaching of Simon Cephas in the City of Rome.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. Acts of Sharbil, Who Was a Priest of Idols, and Was Converted to the Confession of Christianity in Christ.
- Further, the Martyrdom of Barsamya, the Bishop of the Blessed City Edessa.
- Elucidation.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. Martyrdom of Habib the Deacon.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. Martyrdom of the Holy Confessors Shamuna, Guria, and Habib, from Simeon Metaphrastes.
- I. Reign of Abgar
- II. Founding of the town of Edessa; brief account of the race of our illuminator.
- III. Abgar comes into the East, maintains Ardachès upon the throne of Persia; reconciles his brothers from whom our illuminator and his relations are descended.
- IV. Abgar returns from the east; he gives help to Aretas in a war against Herod the Tetrarch.
- V. Abgar sends princes to Marinus; these deputies see our Saviour Christ; beginning of the conversion of Abgar.
- VI. Abgar's letter to the Saviour Jesus Christ.
- VII. Answer to Abgar's letter, which the apostle Thomas wrote to this prince by command of the Saviour.
- VIII. Preaching of the apostle Thaddæus at Edessa; copy of five letters.
- IX. Martyrdom of our apostles.
- X. Reign of Sanadroug; murder of Abgar's children; the princess Helena.
- XI. Restoration of the town of Medzpine; name of Sanadroug; his death.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. Homily on Habib the Martyr, Composed by Mar Jacob.
- A Homily on Guria and Shamuna, Composed by Mar Jacob.
- Introduction to Ancient Syriac Documents.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. Bardesan.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. A Letter of Mara, Son of Serapion.
- Ancient Syriac Documents. Ambrose.
- Elucidations.
- Introductory Notice to Remains of the Second and Third Centuries.
- Quadratus, Bishop of Athens.
- Aristo of Pella.
- Melito, the Philosopher.
- I. A Discourse Which Was in the Presence of Antoninus Cæsar
- II. From the Discourse on Soul and Body.
- III. From the Discourse on the Cross.
- IV. On Faith.
- V. This is He who took a bodily form in the Virgin
- VI. He that bore up the earth was borne up on a tree. The Lord was subjected to ignominy with naked body--God put to death, the King of Israel slain!
- I. From the Work on the Passover. When Servilius Paulus was proconsul of Asia, at the time that Sagaris suffered martyrdom, there arose a great controversy at Laodicea concerning the time of the celebration of the Passover, which on that occasion had happ
- II. From the Apology Addressed to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
- III. From the Same Apology.
- IV. From the Book of Extracts.
- V. From the Catena on Genesis.
- VI. Two Scholia on Genesis XXII. 13.
- VII. On the Nature of Christ.
- VIII. From the Oration on Our Lord's Passion.
- IX. Head of the Lord
- Hegesippus.
- Concerning the Martyrdom of James, the Brother of the Lord, from Book
- Concerning the Relatives of Our Saviour.
- Concerning the Martyrdom of Symeon the son of Clopas, Bishop of Jerusalem.
- Concerning His Journey to Rome, and the Jewish Sects.
- Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth.
- Rhodon.
- Maximus, Bishop of Jerusalem.
- Claudius Apollinaris, Bishop of Hierapolis, and Apologist.
- Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus.
- Theophilus, Bishop of Cæsarea in Palestine.
- Serapion, Bishop of Antioch.
- Apollonius.
- Pantænus, the Alexandrian Philosopher.
- Pseud-Irenæus.
- Note by the American Editor.
- Elucidation.
- Note.