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Alexander of Cappadocia · From the Epistles of Alexander

II. From an Epistle to the Antinoites

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Narcissus salutes you, who held the episcopate in this district before me, who is now also my colleague and competitor in prayer for you,1233 and who, having now attained to1234 his hundred and tenth year, unites with me in exhorting you to be of one mind.1235

Notes

  1. 1232

    In Euseb., Hist. Eccles., book vi. ch. xi.

  2. 1233

    sunexetazomenos moi dia ton euchon. Jerome renders it: Salutat vos Narcissus, qui ante me hic tenuit episcopalem locum et nunc mecum eundem orationibus regit.

  3. 1234

    enukos.

  4. 1235

    The text gives homoios emoi phronesai. Several of the codices and also Nicephorus give the better reading, homoios emoi homophronesai, which is confirmed by the interpretations of Rufinus and Jerome.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.