CONTENTS · Macarius Magnes: Apocriticus

TRANSLATIONS OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE. SERIES 1. GREEK TEXTS

THE APOCRITICUS OF MACARIUS MAGNES

By T. W. CRAFER, D.D.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. London The Macmillan Company. New York

1919

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INTRODUCTION :---
	Summary	ix
	The Nature of the Apocriticus	x
	The History of the Apocriticus to 1867	xi
	Its History since 1867	xii
	The Heathen Objections in the Apocriticus	xiv
	The Date of the Apocriticus	xvi
	The Authorship of the Apocriticus	xix
	The Title of the Work	xxiv
	The Literary Relations of the Apocriticus	xxv
	The Text and MSS	xxvii
	Its Theological and Apologetic Value	xxix
TRANSLATION :---
	BOOK I. Fragment of ch. vi. Concerning Berenice or the woman with an issue of blood	31
	BOOK II. Ch. vii. Answer concerning the saying: Think not that I am come to send peace on the earth	32
		33
	Ch. viii. Answer concerning the saying: Who is my mother, who are my brethren ?
		34
	Ch. ix. Answer concerning the sayings: None is good save one, even God; and A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good
		36
	Ch. x. Answer concerning the saying: Lord, have pity on my son, for he is lunatic
		37
	Ch. xi. Answer concerning the saying: If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true
		38
	Chs. xii. and xvii. Question and answer concerning the discrepancies of the Evangelists (with brief introductions to the next five questions and answers by the Philosopher and the Christian)
		41
	Chs. xiii. and xviii. Question and answer concerning the saying: But when they came to Jesus, when they saw He was already dead, they brake not His legs
		43
	Chs. xiv. and xix. Question and answer concerning the Resurrection of Christ and His manifestation.
		46
	Chs. xv. and xx. Question and answer concerning the saying : Now is the judgment of the world, now shall the prince of this world be cast outside.
		48
	Chs xvi. and xxi. Question and answer concerning
	the saying: Ye cannot hear my word
	(The summaries of Books III and IV are translated from the headings of the chapters in the Athens MS.)
	BOOK III. These words are contained in the Third Book of the words of Answer to the
	Greeks.1
		51
	Proem (Introduction to seven attacks by the Philosopher)
		51
	The Christian (Introduction to his seven answers)
		52
	Chs. i. and viii. How Jesus endured to be crucified
	with insult
		57
	Chs. ii. and ix. How it is said : If it be possible, let
	the cup pass
		60
	Chs. iii. and x. How it is said : If ye believe Moses,
	ye would believe me
	Chs. iv. and xi. What is the meaning of the swine	62
	and the demons ?
		69
	Chs. v. and xii. What is the meaning of the saying :
	It is easier for a camel to go through a needle,
	than a rich man into the kingdom of God ?
	Chs. vi. and xiii. How it is said : About the fourth	73
	watch of the night He came upon the sea
	Chs. vii. and xiv. What is the meaning of: The poor	76
	ye have always, but me ye have not always ?
	The Greek (Introduction to the next eight attacks)	78
	Chs. xv. and xxiii. (With the Christian's Introduction to his eight answers.)	78
	What is the meaning of: Except ye eat my flesh
	and drink my blood, ye have no life in you ?
	Chs. xvi. and xxiv. How it is said : And if they	85
	drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them
	Chs. xvii. and xxv. What is the meaning of the	88
	grain of mustard seed ?
	Chs. xviii. and xxvi. How it is said : Cast thyself	89
	down
		91
	Chs. xix. xx. and xxvii. What is the meaning of: Get thee behind me, Satan ; and the address to Peter? What is the meaning of the seventy times seven ?
	(The beginning of another proposition from the Acts of the Apostles.)
		95
	Chs. xxi. and xxviii. How Peter killed Ananias and Sapphira
		97
	Chs. xxii. and xxix. How Peter went forth when the
	prison was shut
		99
	Chs. xxx, and xxxvii. (With brief introductions to
	the next six questions and answers by the Greek
	and the Christian.)
	How Paul circumcised Timothy
	Chs. xxxi. and xxxviii. How Paul says he is a	102
	Roman, though he was not a Roman
	Chs. xxxii. and xxxix. How it is said : No one goeth	103
	a warfare at his own charges
	Chs. xxxiii. and xl. How it is said: He is a debtor	105
	to do the whole law
	Chs. xxxiv. and xli. How it is said : The law entered,	107
	that the transgression might abound
	Chs. xxxv. and xlii. How it is said: I would not	108
	that ye should become partakers of demons
	Chs. xxxvi. and xliii. How it is said: In the latter	113
	times some shall depart from the faith
	BOOK IV. The following is contained in the Fourth
	Book of the words of Answer to the Greeks.2
	Proem (Introduction to ten attacks by the Philosopher)	117
		117
	The Christian (Introduction to his answer in eight chapters)
		118
	Chs. i. and xi. Concerning how it is said: The fashion of this world passeth away
		121
	Chs. ii. and xii. How it is said : We which are alive shall be caught up in the clouds
		124
	Chs. iii. and xiii. How he says: The Gospel shall be preached in all the
	world
		126
	Chs. iv. and xiv. How the Lord speaks to Paul by a vision, and how it befell that Peter was crucified
		127
	Chs. v. and xv. What is the meaning of: Take heed, for many shall come saying, I am Christ
	?
		129
	Chs. vi., vii. and xvi.3 What is the meaning of the judgment in the Apocrypha? How it is said: The heaven shall be rolled together as a scroll, and the stars shall fall as leaves.
		133
	Chs. viii., ix. and xvii.3 What is the meaning of the leaven, the mustard seed, and the pearl? How it is said: Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes.
		136
	Chs. x. and xviii. What is the meaning of: They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ?
		138
	Chs. xix. and xxv. (With brief Introductions to the next six questions and answers by the Philosopher and the Christian.)
	What is the meaning of: But ye were washed, but ye were sanctified ?
		143
	Chs. xx. and xxvi. What is the meaning of the Monarchy?
		145
	Chs. xxi. and xxvii. What is the meaning of the angels having immortality ? What is the meaning of the tables being written with the finger of
	God? 4
		149
	Chs. xxii. and xxviii. How the Godhead was made flesh in Mary and was born
		151
	Chs. xxiii. and xxix. How it is said : Thou shall not revile gods
		153
	Chs. xxiv. and xxx. What is the meaning of the resurrection of the flesh ?
	BOOK V.
		164
	Fragment quoted in Greek by F. Turrianus in the
	sixteenth century
		165
	Further quotation from the same author, which is probably a translation of Macarius
	Index [omitted]	167

NOTE.---When passages in the Apocriticusare referred to by page and line, the numbering is that of the Greek edition, and not of the translation contained in this book.