* Not Ecclesiasticus : see Zahn, p. 66, n. 1.
+ See a paper by the present writer, ‘An Exegetical Fragment of the Third Century,’ in JTAS y. 218-241 (especially pp. 225- 227), Jan. 1904.
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Twelve comments on passages in the Pauline epistles are directly Feat from the Hypotyposes (Zahn, op. cit. pp. 66-77; Preuschen in Harnack, Altchr. Litteratur 303-305): eleven of these occur in the Catena of Oecumenius, and one in the Pratum Spirituale of John Moschus (died A.D. 620). The formula of quotation in the latter case is KAjuns 6 Brpwuareds ev TE wéeumTw Tuy Tov “Lro- TuTdTEwy. . . TO dToTTOALKOY pynrov eEnyoUmevos TO Ne-Yo EYXAPICT@ K.7.A. (1 Co 14). The references in Oecumenius are not merely marginal ascriptions of authorship, such as are given to other authors in this Catena, but are part of the text itself, and in every case but one are appended and not prefixed to the quotation: otrws o Knyhuns ev rerdptw* [once év 0'], év méumrm, év éBddum [once év §'] ‘Yroruraécewr. It is natural to conclude from this that Oecumenius drew direct from Clement himself rather than through the agency of a Catena.
Five different epistles are represented in Oecu- menius’ quotations: 1 Corinthians (11! dia rods dyyédous), 2 Corinthians (5% 61-1"), Galatians (5”), 1 Timothy (2° xacpots (Siow, 318 SpOn dryyédois, 5° rov ilwv Kal pddora olkelwv, 5! ef dylwy mddas eve, 5” xXwpls mpoxpluaros, 6 rod paprupycavros émt Iovriov IliAdrov), and 2 Timothy (2? dia mo\dGv papripwr). The comments on boule Corinthian epistles are quoted from the 4th book ; that on Galatians from the 5th book ; those on 1 and 2 Timothy from the 7th book. Zahn points out (pp. 150, 156) that Clement, like the Muratorian Canon, appears to have drawn a marked line between the epistles to Churches, which he expounded in the 4th and 5th books of the Hypotyposes, and the personal epistles, which are dealt with in the 7th, the Pauline series being interrupted in the intermediate book by notes on the Acts and perhaps also on the Gospels.
To these twelve passages from Oecumenius and Moschus it is possible that several more should be added from other Catenze. Neither Zahn nor Preuschen seems to mention the fact that Cramer’s Munich Catena on Romans contains three cita- tions (on Ro 8” 10% 105), and_his Catena on 1 Corinthians two citations (on 1 Co 1” 1”), under the heading KA7jperros ; while the Catena of Vat. gr. 692, so Dr. Mercati informs the present writer, contains at least five. It is probable that some of these came from the Hypotyposes.
As the example of the Latin Adwmbrationes would lead us to expect, these comments of Cle- ment on St. Paul are brief—for the most part very brief. The exegesis is of course predominantly allegorical. The 4yyeho of 1 Co 11° are ‘righteous and virtuous men’: according to one interpreta- tion (not, however, finally accepted) of Gal 5%, Christians are the odpt Xpuorod, and the whole verse means ‘there is no law against such as have crucified the flesh of Christ,’ i.¢. their own Ps in 2 Ti 2? the zo\Xol udprupes are the Law and the Prophets, cited regularly by the Apostle as ‘ wit- nesses’ to the contents of his preaching. But the Hypotyposes also—in_ this again resembling the work of Papias—adduce traditions of Apostolic history in explanation of the sacred text: such matter was hardly to the paviite of catenists, but Eusebius has preserved a few bearing on other NT books, and the solitary quotation in John Moschus is of this character. Clement, he tells us, in ex- pounding 1 Co 1%, ‘relates that Christ is said to have baptized Peter only, Peter to have baptized Andrew, Andrew to have baptized John and James, and they the rest.’
* The comment on 1 Co 1110 is in the printed text of Oecu- menius given as éy zp/sw; but Zahn points out that the Bod- leian MS, Auct. T. i. 7, cited on p. 465 of Cramer’s Catena on the Corinthian epistles, reads tv seréprw, and this is doubtless right.
iv. SUMMARY OF UNPUBLISHED OR _INADE- QUATELY PUBLISHED MS MATERIAL.—The aim of the present section is to point out the lines along which it is likely that the labours of the next generation of scholars could be most profit- ably directed, with a view to our further know- ledge of the Patristic writings enumerated in this article. The material groups itself naturally under four headings: A. Anonymous Catene ; B. Catene of known authorship; c. Original commentators as preserved in the Catene; D. Commentators whose text is preserved independ- ently of Catenz. Thus three of the four headings of the section are concerned, directly or indirectly, with Catene ; and that fact is enough of itself to foreshadow the predominant part which will belong in the immediate future to this branch of research. To a large extent the following paragraphs will do no more than focus the results of preceding sections, and bring into one comprehensive scheme the isolated points that have already been indi- cated at various stages of the inquiry: but fuller details will be given here than was possible above about the more important Catena MSS; and, in a few cases where for one reason or another there had been no previous Creer ey for introducing it, the matter is entirely new (see A 4 and 5, p- 522°, and B 1, p. 523%).