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Fragment 39

This and the 4 next were printed by Muenter from Vatican Mss....

This and the 4 next were printed by Muenter from Vatican Mss. from Cod. Vat. 331.1

And found a jawbone of an ass.2 We3 must note, that no longer does the Divine Scripture after his fornication say of his achievements,4 The Spirit of the Lord came upon him: for so is the sin of fornication in regard to the body, that one sins against God’s Temple,5 according to the Divine Apostle.

  1. Fragments . ↩

  2. Judg. 15:15. ↩

  3. o This is extant in the Leipzig Catena ii. 221 but under the name of Diodorus. The Editor notes that his other Ms. belonging to Alexander High Guardsman ( μ εγαλοσπαθάριος ) attributes this passage to S. Irenæus. ↩

  4. Ib. 14:6, 19; 15:14. ↩

  5. 1 Cor. 6:19. ↩



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