The Apostolic Planting and Forged Epistles
Having been made a planting from Peter and Paul, you harvested both Romans and Corinthians. For both of them, having planted us even into our own Corinth, taught identically.
And having taught similarly even into Italy, they bore witness at the same time. And yet the same person says these things concerning his own letters, as if they had been forged.
For I wrote, having been deemed worthy to write the letters of brothers. And the apostles of the devil have filled these with weeds: some things they take away, and some things they add; to which the woe appliess. It is not therefore a wonder if some have cast forged things upon even the Lord's letters, since they have cast attacks upon those not such.
And first it must be said concerning Dionysius: that he had been entrusted with the throne of the episcopate of the residing in Corinthand how, of the divine philanthropy, he shared abundantly not only with those under him, but already also with those in foreign lands; most useful...
Greek
ἀπὸ Πέτρου καὶ Παύλου φυτείαν γενηθεῖσαν Ῥωμαίων τε καὶ Κορινθίων συνεκεράσατε. καὶ γὰρ ἄμφω καὶ εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν Κόρινθον φυτεύσαντες ἡμᾶς, ὁμοίως ἐδίδαξαν. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ εἰς τὴν Ἰταλίαν ὁμόσε διδάξαντες, ἐμαρτύρησαν κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν καιρόν. προτυλιτ ηαεξ ευσεβιυς λιβ. ιι. ηιστ. ξ. 25. 181 εχ εαδεμ επιστολα. Ἔτι δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς καὶ περὶ τῶν ἰδίων ἐπιστολῶν (ῃερβα ευσεβιι συντ ιν λιβ. ιῃ. ηιστ. ξ. 23.) ὡς ῥᾳδιουργηθεισῶν. ταῦτα φησίν. Ἐπιστολὰς γὰρ ἀδελφῶν ἀξιωσάντων με γράψαι, ἔγραψα. καὶ ταύτας οἱ τοῦ διαβόλου ἀπόστολοι ζιζανίων γεγέμικαν· ἃ μὲν ἐξαιροῦντες, ἃ δὲ προστιθέντες· οἷς τὸ οὐαὶ κεῖται. οὐ θαυμαστὸν ἄρα εἰ καὶ τῶν Κυριακῶν ῥαδιουργῆσαί τινες (φορ. λεγενδ. τινας) ἐπιβέβληνται γραφῶν, ὁπότε καὶ ταῖς οὐ τοιαύταις ἐπιβεβλήκασι (αλιι ἐπιβουλεύκασι). δε ρελιθυις σεπτεμ επιστολις ηαεξ ποσυιτ ιβιδεμ ευσεβιυς. Καὶ πρῶτόν γε περὶ ∆ιονυσίου φατέον· ὅτι τε τῆς ἐν Κορίνθῳ παροικίας τὸν τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς ἐγκεχείριστο θρόνον· καὶ ὡς τῆς ἐνθέου φιλοπονίας οὐ μόνον τοῖς ὑπ' αὐτὸν, ἀλλ' ἤδη καὶ τοῖς ἐπὶ τῆς ἀλλοδαπῆς ἀφθόνως ἐκοινώνει· χρησιμώτατον
About this text
Surviving pieces of Diodorus of Tarsus, who led Antioch's plain-sense school against Alexandrian allegory.
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Khazarzar scan
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- Copy-text PG (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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