{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/201/2010187.htm","path":"chr/ecf/201/2010187.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/201/2010187.htm","text":"p. 264 Chapter XVII.\u2014The Translator Symmachus. 1894\nAs to these translators it should be stated that Symmachus was an Ebionite. But the heresy of the Ebionites, as it is called, asserts that Christ was the son of Joseph and Mary, considering him a mere man, and insists strongly on keeping the law in a Jewish manner, as we have seen already in this history. 1895 Commentaries of Symmachus are still extant in which he appears to support this heresy by attacking the Gospel of Matthew. 1896 Origen states that he obtained these and other commentaries of Symmachus on the Scriptures from a certain Juliana, 1897 who, he says, received the books by inheritance from Symmachus himself.\nOn Symmachus, see the previous chapter, note 4.\n264:1895\nIn Bk. III. chap. 27. For a discussion of Ebionism, see the notes on that chapter.\n264:1896\nOn the attitude of the Ebionites toward the Canonical Gospel of Matthew (to which of course Eusebius here refers), see ibid. note 8. All traces of this work and of Symmachus\u2019 \u201cother interpretations of Scripture\u201d (\u1f04\u03bb\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u03c4\u1f70\u03c2 \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u1f70\u03c2 \u1f11\u03c1\u03bc\u03b7\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9\u1ff6\u03bd), mentioned just below, have vanished. We must not include Symmachus\u2019 translation of the Old Testament in these other works (as has been done by Huet and others), for there is no hint either in this passage or in that of Palladius (see next note) of a reference to that version, which was, like those of Aquila and Theodotion, well known in Origen\u2019s time (see the previous chapter).\n264:1897\nThis Juliana is known to us only from this passage and from Palladius, Hist. Laus. 147. Palladius reports, on the authority of an entry written by Origen himself, which he says he found in an ancient book (\u1f10\u03bd \u03c0\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c4\u20ac\u03c4\u1ff3 \u03b2\u03b9\u03b2\u03bb\u03af& 251\u00b7 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03c7\u03b7\u03c1\u1ff7), that Juliana was a virgin of C\u00e6sarea in Cappadocia, and that she gave refuge to Origen in the time of some persecution. If this account is to be relied upon, Origen\u2019s sojourn in the lady\u2019s house is doubtless to be assigned, with Huet, to the persecution of Maximinus (235\u2013238; see below, chap. 28, note 2). It must be confessed, however, that in the face of the absolute silence of Eusebius and others, the story has a suspicious look.","title":"Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Church History of Eusebius.: Chapter XVII","type":"page"}