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Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna
Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.
English translation and editorial credits: Benjamin Plummer Pratten (English translator), William Cureton (underlying translation and most unmarked notes), William Wright (textual collations), Robert Payne Smith (acknowledged lexical assistance), Alexander Roberts (Edinburgh series editor), James Donaldson (Edinburgh series editor), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (American revision with prefaces and notes), Matthew Brown Riddle (American volume collaborator; individual note authorship unspecified).
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Lit. “how much the outstretched forms bore in consequence of the inflictions.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-13 · Original source
To see how calmly the outstretched forms bore the inflictions laid upon them.
By this name the men referred to (not, however, the elders, but the two false witnesses suborned by them) are called in 1 Kings xxi. 10, 13. The expression in the text is literally “sons of iniquity,” and that is used by the Peshito.—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-22 · Original source
Those old men of the daughter of the Hebrews were sons of Belial,
Or “who changes not.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-1 · Original source
Fixed was their love on God unchangeably:
Or “salvation:” a different word from that used in speaking of the serpent.—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-3 · Original source
And, if this be preserved unharmed, by it is also preserved their life:
Lit. “as a man.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-4 · Original source
Shamuna and Guria of the faith as men
Or “rending asunder.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-5 · Original source
They gave up their bodies both to blows and to dislocation,
Lit. “the garden.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-6 · Original source
Won him the kingdom, and became heir of paradise, all fraught with blessings.
i.e., “Bethsaida.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-7 · Original source
One fisherman, whose “village” too was a home of fishermen,
Lit. “with openness of countenance.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-9 · Original source
They went in and confessed Him before the judge with look undaunted,
Lit. “portray the image of their crowns.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-10 · Original source
Or who can paint the picture of their coronation,
Lit. “magnified his words.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-11 · Original source
He spake great words, that by fright and intimidation,
Lit. “as breath.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-12 · Original source
Because all his menaces against the truth were accounted by them as empty sound.
Lit. “purchase.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-16 · Original source
He did Himself espouse the bride with the blood which flowed from His wounds,
, though not in the lexicons, is the same word that appears in Castel as ***.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-17 · Original source
And of His wedding-friends He demanded as a nuptial gift the blood of their necks.
Lit. “to the forms (σχήματα) of all afflictions.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-18 · Original source
To sufferings and tomes and to all the various forms of woe.
Lit. “crucifixion.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-20 · Original source
The daughter of the Parthians, who was espoused to the cross,
Or “have an open countenance.”—Tr.
Editorial footnote · Homilies, Composed by Mar Jacob, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Homily on Guria and Shamuna, editorial note cite_note-23 · Original source
And which city can stand with confidence before God.