{"id":14765,"date":"2015-06-16T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=14765"},"modified":"2015-06-16T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:30:08","slug":"cyril-of-alexandria-and-matthew-2725-part-2-the-case-of-the-vanishing-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2015\/06\/16\/cyril-of-alexandria-and-matthew-2725-part-2-the-case-of-the-vanishing-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyril of Alexandria and Matthew 27:25 (part 2): the case of the vanishing passage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2015\/06\/15\/cyril-of-alexandria-and-matthew-2725\/\">Yesterday<\/a> I discussed 5 passages from Cyril of Alexandria&#8217;s <em>Commentary on the XII minor prophets<\/em>, which according to a TLG search supposedly reference Matthew 27:25, &#8220;His blood be upon us all&#8221;.\u00a0 Passage #1 was a glitch, and #3-5 are genuine and I gave\u00a0the passages in\u00a0translation using the <em>Fathers of the Church<\/em> translation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it is passage 2 that I want to discuss now.\u00a0 For I was unable to see it, in the Google Books Preview of the commentary.\u00a0\u00a0The TLG result\u00a0is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Volume 1 page 530 line 13: \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u03c4\u1ff7 \u03a0\u03b9\u03bb\u03ac\u03c4\u1ff3 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c5\u03c1\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bd \u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03c0\u03b5\u03af\u03b8\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03a7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03cc\u03bd \u201c\u03a4\u1f78 \u201c\u03b1\u1f37\u03bc\u03b1 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f10\u03c6\u2019 \u1f21\u03bc\u1fb6\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u03c0\u1f76 \u03c4\u1f70 \u03c4\u03ad\u03ba\u03bd\u03b1 \u1f21\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd.\u201d \u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03b3\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u00a0 \u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03ba\u1f76 \u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03bb\u03ce\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u1f00\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03ac\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd \u1f21\u03c1\u03c0\u03ac\u03c3\u03b8\u03b7\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd \u03c0\u03cc\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As we can see, the Greek of Matthew 27:25 is right there.\u00a0 Here is the page from the Pusey edition[ref]P.E. Pusey, <i>Sancti patris nostri Cyrilli archiepiscopi Alexandrini in xii prophetas<\/i>, 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1868: 1:1-740; 2:1-626.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=4zcYAAAAYAAJ\">Volume 1<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=izgYAAAAYAAJ\">Volume 2<\/a>.[\/ref], <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=4zcYAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA530#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">volume 1, page 530<\/a> (click on\u00a0the picture below\u00a0for a larger image):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pusey_p530.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14766\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pusey_p530-175x300.png\" alt=\"Pusey_p530\" width=\"175\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; why did it not show up in my search of the <em>Fathers of the Church<\/em> translation?<\/p>\n<p>The running header in Pusey tells me that this\u00a0is from the Commentary on Amos, chapter 9:4, at the end.\u00a0 If I look at the Fathers of the Church 116, <em>Commentary on 12 Minor prophets<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=OzpS492yf74C&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=cyril%20of%20alexandria%20commentary%20on%20the%20twelve%20prophets%20volume%202&amp;pg=PA120#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">volume 2, p.120<\/a> indicates the start of Pusey p.530, and <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=OzpS492yf74C&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=cyril%20of%20alexandria%20commentary%20on%20the%20twelve%20prophets%20volume%202&amp;pg=PA121#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">p.121<\/a> shows the start of p.531.\u00a0 But it is noticeable how much less text there is, than between &#8220;(531)&#8221; and &#8220;(532)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FOC116_p120.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14768\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FOC116_p120-191x300.png\" alt=\"FOC116_p120\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FOC116_p121.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14769\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FOC116_p121-191x300.png\" alt=\"FOC116_p121\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s only one conclusion to draw.\u00a0 The translator, for whatever reason, has omitted this passage from his translation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This may be an honest error. After all, similar passages do appear translated in the next volume of the same commentary.\u00a0 But the passage might be considered anti-Semitic, and so politically controversial.\u00a0 I have referred before to the atmosphere of fear in US universities these days.\u00a0 It would be worrying if it was omitted for reasons of self-preservation: just as copies of the Talmud in medieval Europe omitted material about Jesus, out of fear of the inquisition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have asked a correspondent for a translation of the missing portion, which I will add here.\u00a0 And I shall write to the editors of the FOC series, and draw\u00a0their attention to the omission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UPDATE: Two kind commenters have had a go at the passage (see below).\u00a0 Bryson Sewell has sent in a version in PDF, with some notes on an unusual Greek usage, which I attach.\u00a0 Comments are welcome!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Translation-of-Cyril-passage.pdf\">Translation of Cyril passage<\/a>\u00a0(PDF)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Translation-of-Cyril-passage.docx\">Translation of Cyril passage<\/a>\u00a0(.docx)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;And the wretched crowd of the Jews has endured this, who transferred his righteous blood upon their own heads. For when they were persuading Pilate to crucify Christ, they said, &#8216;His blood be upon us and upon our children!&#8217; Accordingly, they all perished with their whole households and their cities were plundered together with their men, so that no one was able to escape. As regards the sort and number of the things that they have suffered, the long history books of those who have written about such matters sing of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition I have looked again at Pusey&#8217;s edition, and verified that there are four, and only four references to Matt.27:25 in the commentary on the 12 prophets:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cyril_pusey2_index.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14786\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cyril_pusey2_index.png\" alt=\"cyril_pusey2_index\" width=\"284\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I discussed 5 passages from Cyril of Alexandria&#8217;s Commentary on the XII minor prophets, which according to a TLG search supposedly reference Matthew 27:25, &#8220;His blood be upon us all&#8221;.\u00a0 Passage #1 was a glitch, and #3-5 are genuine and I gave\u00a0the passages in\u00a0translation using the Fathers of the Church translation. 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