SSCN Voumes 1-10, 1994-2004

St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter

16 Evagrius, ed. Bidez and Parmentier, 56; A History , 71. See Frend, Monophysite , 155. 17 Orlandi, 44, believes that Longinus wa s head of a group of m onks who consecrated Timothy, while Frend, Monophysite , 155, says that there was "a sm all committee of monks and dissident clerics led by Longinus." Neither the Life nor Zacharius supports these conclusions. 18 It is not surprising that the anti-Chalce donian accounts--Zacharius of Mytilene and the Life of Longinus -- agree that Proterius was not m urdered; such a crime does not do their side honor. It is m uch better to have a miscreant government official die. 19 Orlandi, 44; Timothy did not return until 475 and died in 477. 20 As Evagrius laconically concludes (ed. Bidez and Parm entier, 59; A History ,74): "In consequence, however, of these proceedings, Stilas is sent out by the emperor to chastise them [that is, the Alexandrians]." 21 Translated from the text edited by Orlandi, 78-88. Paragraph divisions follow those of Orlandi. Section titles are my own and differ slightly from Orlandi's table of contents, 43. I plan to publish a translation of the complete Life . 22 Another version of this story appears in an encom ium of Macarius of Tkow, which is falsely attributed to Dioscurus of Alexandria; in it, the protagonist is L onginus, but the episode takes place not at Enaton but at an unnamed monastery in Lycia. Enaton seem s to be the original locale of the story, not Lycia; see Orlandi, 44, for a discussion. 23 Gk: magistrianos , an official of the staff of the magister officiorum . 24 Leo, in our author' s view, is aceb/c , "ungodly, im pious," the opposite of euceb/c , "pious, godly," which has the added connotation of "orthodox." 25 Marcian was Em peror of the East from 450-57. The Council of Chalcedon, which accepted the Tom e of Leo defining the orthodox faith, bestowed on the emperor the title "protector of the true faith." 26 Coptic/Gk dogma . 27 Coptic/Gk dikaiwma , which m ay have sounded like a com bination of dikaioc , "just, righteous," and dogma , as opposed to the dogma of the emperor. 28 See Life of Antony 82.4-8, where Antony foresees the persecution of the Church by Arians. Such foresight about Chalcedon is a common occurrence in the Plerophoriae of John Rufus. 29 Here the Tome is atnoute , the Coptic equivalent of a-theos .

30 The monks are mainoute , the opposite of atnoute . 31 "Supreme ruler" is autokratwr ; see the next note. 32 There is a deliberate juxtaposition here and at th (an appellation of the emperor in par. 31) is euergetês . 33 Coptic/Gk - koinonei , translated above as "communion."

e end of the paragraph: "Alm ighty" translates pantokratwr , whereas "supreme ruler" is autokratôr ; "cares for" renders -euergetai , whereas "benefactor"

St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter 34 According to Apa Theodore, Pachom ius had praised At hanasius, "who struggles for the faith even to the point of death." See SBo 134; Armand Veilleux, trans., Pachomian Koinonia (Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1980), 1.192. 35 Ps 32:10 (33:10). God sets aside the "designs" ( sojne ) that the officials had "decided" on ( ji sojne ); the Lord defeats the plans of the earthly lord. 36 "Lithazomenon" literally means "stoned"; I have not been able to identify the location. 37 Ps 10:1-2 (11:1-2). 38 "Poor and wretched" ( - h/ke and - ebi/n ) may well be a conscious self- understanding and self-designation; see Paul of Tamma, On the Cell . 39 See n. 34 (par. 31) above. 40 Ps 90:1 (91:1).

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