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ADDITIONAL NOTES
187
Apocalypse of Adam.
Compare with the whole idea of the fragment Victorians De Fabrica Mundi,
sub fin.
Constituti sunt itaque sine dubio diei angeli duodecim, noctis angeli duo-
decim, pro numero scilicet horarum. Hi sunt namque xxiiii testes dierum et
noctium, qui sedent ante thronum Dei.
Victorinus has also an interesting passage in this tract on the duration of
the world, which he fixes at 7000 years : cf. Barnabas xv. 4 and Gebhardt and
Harnack’s note, and see further the newly-found portion of Hippolytus on
Daniel, ed. Bratke. Bonn, 1891, p. 19 sqq. (Kennedy p. 24).
Description of Antichrist, p. 153.
marginal reading in Lagarde’s MS. gives , which is
that the only reading Avhich is not supported by the Latin is
‘ tower’. Was the Latin version made from the Syriac?
oculi eius fellini, i.e. felini : Antichrist has the eyes of a cat.
(oculus) sinister glaucus (cod. gaicdens) et duos pupulos habens. The Syriac
y
word corresponding to gaudens is which, curiously enough, as
printed here would mean ‘singing’: it is the word used to render αδοι/res in
Eph. v. 19. For notes connected with the Syriac text I am indebted to Mr
McLean, Fellow of Christ’s College.
The double pupil is the sign of the evil eye. So Pliny W. H. vii. 16, esse
eiusdem generis in Triballis et Illyris adicit Isigonus, qui nisu quoque effasci-
nent interimantque quos diutius intueantur...notabilius esse quod pupillas
binas in singulis habeant oculis. 17, huius generis et feminas in Scythia,
quae Bitiae uocantur, prodit Apollonides. Phylarchus et in Ponto Thibiorum
genus multosque alios eiusdem naturae, quorum notas tradit in altero oculo
geminam pupillam, in altero equi effigiem. 18, feminas quidem omnes ubique
uisu nocere quae duplices pupillas habeant Cicero quoque apud nos auctor est.
24, Choromandarum gentem uocat Tauron siluestrem,...oculis glaucis.
Professor Bevan tells me that among Mohammedans lost sinners are con-
ceived of as ‘ blue-eyed ’.
dextrum femur eius macrum. In the 3rd of the Greek descriptions (p. 156)
the legs of Antichrist are said to be like those of a cock. In a number of
mediaeval pictures, both early and late, the devil has one fleshless leg, e.g. in
a fresco in Eton College Chapel.
Iste est falx desolationis (cod. fallax dilectionis: Syr. r<\
ΐ Λμ .1, tower of desolation) : strangely enough the Syriac would mean
‘fallax dilectionis’ if we were to read trf-joCt*j 1 . while a
187
Apocalypse of Adam.
Compare with the whole idea of the fragment Victorians De Fabrica Mundi,
sub fin.
Constituti sunt itaque sine dubio diei angeli duodecim, noctis angeli duo-
decim, pro numero scilicet horarum. Hi sunt namque xxiiii testes dierum et
noctium, qui sedent ante thronum Dei.
Victorinus has also an interesting passage in this tract on the duration of
the world, which he fixes at 7000 years : cf. Barnabas xv. 4 and Gebhardt and
Harnack’s note, and see further the newly-found portion of Hippolytus on
Daniel, ed. Bratke. Bonn, 1891, p. 19 sqq. (Kennedy p. 24).
Description of Antichrist, p. 153.
marginal reading in Lagarde’s MS. gives , which is
that the only reading Avhich is not supported by the Latin is
‘ tower’. Was the Latin version made from the Syriac?
oculi eius fellini, i.e. felini : Antichrist has the eyes of a cat.
(oculus) sinister glaucus (cod. gaicdens) et duos pupulos habens. The Syriac
y
word corresponding to gaudens is which, curiously enough, as
printed here would mean ‘singing’: it is the word used to render αδοι/res in
Eph. v. 19. For notes connected with the Syriac text I am indebted to Mr
McLean, Fellow of Christ’s College.
The double pupil is the sign of the evil eye. So Pliny W. H. vii. 16, esse
eiusdem generis in Triballis et Illyris adicit Isigonus, qui nisu quoque effasci-
nent interimantque quos diutius intueantur...notabilius esse quod pupillas
binas in singulis habeant oculis. 17, huius generis et feminas in Scythia,
quae Bitiae uocantur, prodit Apollonides. Phylarchus et in Ponto Thibiorum
genus multosque alios eiusdem naturae, quorum notas tradit in altero oculo
geminam pupillam, in altero equi effigiem. 18, feminas quidem omnes ubique
uisu nocere quae duplices pupillas habeant Cicero quoque apud nos auctor est.
24, Choromandarum gentem uocat Tauron siluestrem,...oculis glaucis.
Professor Bevan tells me that among Mohammedans lost sinners are con-
ceived of as ‘ blue-eyed ’.
dextrum femur eius macrum. In the 3rd of the Greek descriptions (p. 156)
the legs of Antichrist are said to be like those of a cock. In a number of
mediaeval pictures, both early and late, the devil has one fleshless leg, e.g. in
a fresco in Eton College Chapel.
Iste est falx desolationis (cod. fallax dilectionis: Syr. r<\
ΐ Λμ .1, tower of desolation) : strangely enough the Syriac would mean
‘fallax dilectionis’ if we were to read trf-joCt*j 1 . while a