Synopsis scripturae sacrae

 of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, and Jotham, and Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. The

 among the Hebrews also Esther and that Ruth, being united with Judges, is counted as one book and Esther as another one and thus again the number o

 Silvanus and Timothy, to the Church of the Thessalonians, in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” And the beginning of the second: “Paul and Sil

 the expulsion, and the slaying of Abel by his brother Cain, and the translation of Enoch, and the construction of the ark, and the flood that happened

 these ten commandments on the tablets: first, I am the Lord your God second, You shall not make for yourself an idol, nor the likeness of anything t

 to them that spring from the earth such as are the locust, the francolin, the grasshopper, and the like to them, and the serpent-fighter. But those t

 of the altar, and the limit of the times of the service of the Levites so that from twenty-five years they should begin to serve but having become f

 in Gai, in the region beyond on the borders of Moab from Gai to Dibon-gad from Dibon-gad to Almon-diblathaim and from Almon-diblathaim to the mount

 commandments and he reminds the people again, that they might keep them. And he repeats in it both the exodus from Egypt, and all the good deeds done

 he says to be, whose land Joshua also gave to the remaining tribes as an inheritance according to their lot: the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Can

 Book 8, Ruth. The book is called this because it contains only the history of Ruth. This Ruth was a Moabitess by race, and she excelled in prudence. H

 and when the foreigners came, and the people fled, he alone stood his ground and he drove off the foreigners, and saved the barley. And three mighty

 of the Shilonite, and of the one who cried out against the altar of Samaria and concerning Elijah and Elisha, and of the one who prophesied to Ahab c

 The son of David reigned over all the people for 40 years, he also and he did evil. And in his time there were the prophets Nathan and Gad. Rehoboam

 Josiah his son, 31 years. The people raised him up as king, being eight years old and he did what was right in every way of David, and did not turn a

 and he took the gold and the vessels. Jeroboam his son, for 41 years and he did evil. Zacharias his son, for six months, and he did evil. Up to this

 of a Jewish eunuch. And the reason for the return was this: Three soldiers guarding the king, of whom one was Zerubbabel, contended over a problem, a

 being closed, and to station some on the right, and others on the left and thus, for some to sing psalms, and to praise, and to sing, and to hymn God

 “A praise of a song,” ʹ, βʹ, δʹ and the one, “Of praise,” ρμδʹ. Again, those not inscribed “To David,” but referred to others, are these, ληʹ, μαʹ, μ

 to be anointed the 28th, of the departing tabernacle the 29th, of the dedication of the house the 30th, of ecstasy the 31st, of understanding the

 is called the Wisdom of Solomon. But he entitled the present book Proverbs, since proverbs are sayings of the wise, like riddles, which on the one han

 he finds the meaning contained in them such as: “A wise son is saved from the heat, but a lawless son becomes wind-blasted in the harvest ” and again

 when it rejoices, the face flourishes but when it is in sorrows, it is gloomy ” and, “An upright heart seeks perception but the mouth of the uninstr

 The Egyptians indeed imagined, but the Greeks were about to create myths concerning these things for this reason this man, moved by the Holy Spirit,

 with enigmatic allegory. For the meaning of the doctrines in it is hidden not in the obvious, but in secret. But being searched for, it is found, beca

 of the race to the Word, and of the Church from the Gentiles to him, and of the Word again to her and to the human race then of the Gentiles to Jerus

 encampments, and having broken their swords, and henceforth being peacefully minded. The one from the Gentiles, seeing Jerusalem as if blaming her, de

 at the affliction that befell him, three of his friends came to console him, Eliphaz the king of the Temanites, Bildad the tyrant of the Shuhites, Zop

 This one announces against Idumea and its end, and against the nations that acted insolently toward Israel. For he signifies that the house of Esau wi

 against Jerusalem. And the word of the Lord came to him. And the greater part of his prophecy is good news concerning the incarnate coming of the Word

 And to the ruler of Tyre, and a lament against him, and to the sons of his people, and against the shepherds of Israel. And finally, describing the bu

 he wished to hang Mordecai on it the next day but the king, by some good providence having stayed awake that night, and not being able to sleep, comm

 his soldiers being unaware. And so then the Assyrians fled, and the sons of Israel, running together from all sides, cut down the Assyrians. And so ha

 his son Tobias, having gone into Media, and having buried his parents-in-law, and having heard about the destruction of Nineveh, died at 107 years of

 of snakes, of cats, and of similar things. That God benefited Israel with quails instead of frogs. That also for the bite of snakes the salvation of t

 and that it is necessary to propitiate him, and not to walk in the desire of the heart. Concerning not being carried about by every wind, and concerni

 teaching of money, of great ones, and of rulers, to a son and wife, to a brother and friend concerning an evil servant. Concerning foolish dreams co

 Hezekiah was humble-minded, and a friend of Isaiah, and the slayer of Rabshakeh. How the Lord redeemed Israel by the hand of Isaiah, striking the camp

 A scribe is prevented from following, and the disciple is compelled. He stills the storm of the sea. The demons fall into the swine. Jesus came into h

 many. He resolved the matter of the certificate of divorce. He discourses concerning the manner of eunuchism. He blesses the children. The rich man ap

 of publicans. The Pharisees accuse [him] concerning this. The disciples of John bring a charge concerning fasting but he defends himself. He passes t

 of God. Peter denies. Jesus is led to Pilate he is crucified. Mary the mother of James the younger was there, and Magdalene, and Salome. Joseph takes

 turns back.” He appointed seventy disciples, and sends them out two by two, having advised them to carry nothing. He rebukes the cities. Then he says,

 Then he calls the children. The rich man approaches, asking what he must do to inherit eternal life. He speaks to the disciples about his passion but

 Peter: “You have the words of eternal life, to whom shall we go?” When it was the Feast of Tabernacles, his brothers urge him to go up into the temple

 John. But they departed, and again withdrew. Mary sees the angels, then Jesus, and he speaks with her. Then he appeared to the disciples when the door

 and their bonds were loosed. From the body of Paul they carried away handkerchiefs to the sick and those possessed by demons, and they were healed. Pa

 not to pay attention to those who deceive, saying that their destruction will come, just as also happened to the transgressing angels. And he foretell

 And first he accepts her children walking well then, teaching that our mystery is not recent, he exhorts again concerning love, and that they should

 having deified, and having worshipped the creature rather than the Creator. And he also accuses the Jews, as not having kept the law but rather throu

 but he rebukes them for making the schisms, but also advises that virtue not be considered in word, but in deed and power then, having rebuked the on

 henceforth they should no longer pay attention to those who deceived them, but rather to hold fast to the faith in Christ, and to know that the grace

 to abide in the faith, signifying, that Paul himself is a minister of the Gospel, in which they were instructed then he also discusses the law and th

 of the disorderly, but also to cast them out. For he showed such ones to be both meddlesome and wanderers. And in general he instructed that the one n

 The occasion for this epistle is also thus: Since those who had journeyed with Paul had left him, the Apostle, wanting Timothy to come to him, writes

 Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. And the things that are in the vision are many and various. And finally he saw the destruction

 Four books of Maccabees, Ptolemaica, Psalms and the Ode of Solomon, Susanna. These are the disputed books of the Old Testament. And again, the apocryp

 years of the interpretation of the 72. A third interpretation is that of Symmachus. He, being a Samaritan, and not having been honored by his own peop

Synopsis scripturae sacrae

OF OUR FATHER AMONG THE SAINTS ATHANASIUS, A CONCISE SYNOPSIS OF THE DIVINE SCRIPTURE, OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT.

All Scripture of us Christians is divinely inspired. And it does not have indefinite books, but rather defined and canonized ones. And these are of the Old Testament: Genesis, whose beginning is: "In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth." Exodus, whose beginning is: "These are the names of the sons of Israel who went into Egypt." Leviticus, whose beginning is: "And he called Moses, and the Lord spoke to him in the tabernacle of testimony." Numbers, whose beginning is "And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of testimony." 28.285 Deuteronomy, whose beginning is: "These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan, in the wilderness, toward the west, near the Red Sea." Joshua the son of Nun, whose beginning is: "And it came to pass after the death of the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, saying." Judges, whose beginning is: "And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, and the children of Israel asked in the Lord, saying: Who shall go up against the Canaanites leading the way?" Ruth, whose beginning is: "And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land." First and Second Kingdoms, counted as one book. And the beginning of the first is: "And there was a man from Armathaim Sipha, from mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, son of Jeremiel, son of Eli." And the beginning of the second is: "It came to pass after the death of Saul, that David returned from smiting Amalek." Third and Fourth Kingdoms, again counted as one book. And the beginning of the third is: "And king David was old, advanced in days; and they covered him with clothes, but he was not warm." And the beginning of the fourth is: "And Moab transgressed against Israel, after the death of Ahab." First and Second Chronicles, counted as one book. And the beginning of the first is: "Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Maleleel, Jared, Enoch, Mathusala, Lamech, Noe." And the beginning of the second is: "And Solomon the son of David was strengthened over his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly." First and Second Esdras, counted as one book. And the beginning of the first is: "And Josias kept the Passover in Jerusalem to his Lord on the fourteenth day of the first month." And the beginning of the second is: "And in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word from the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians." The Davidic Psalter, having 151 psalms; whose beginning, that is, the first psalm is: "Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly." The Proverbs of Solomon, whose beginning is: "The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, who reigned in Israel, to know wisdom and instruction." Ecclesiastes of the same, whose beginning is: "The words of 28.288 Ecclesiastes, the son of David, king of Israel in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." Song of Songs of the same, whose beginning is: "The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your breasts are better than wine." Job, whose beginning is: "There was a certain man in the land of Ausitis, whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and God-fearing." Twelve Prophets, counted as one book. And these are they, Hosea first, whose beginning is: "The word of the Lord, which came to Hosea, the son of

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Synopsis scripturae sacrae

ΤΟΥ ΕΝ ΑΓΙΟΙΣ ΠΑΤΡΟΣ ΗΜΩΝ ΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΟΥ ΣΥΝΟΨΙΣ ΕΠΙΤΟΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΙΑΣ ΓΡΑΦΗΣ, ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΝΕΑΣ ∆ΙΑΘΗΚΗΣ.

Πᾶσα Γραφὴ ἡμῶν Χριστιανῶν, θεόπνευστός ἐστιν. Οὐκ ἀόριστα δὲ, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ὡρισμένα καὶ κεκανονισμένα ἔχει τὰ βιβλία. Καὶ ἔστι τῆς μὲν Πα λαιᾶς ∆ιαθήκης ταῦτα· Γένεσις, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν.» Ἔξοδος, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Ταῦτα τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ τῶν εἰσπορευομένων εἰς Αἴγυπτον.» Λευϊτικὸν, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Καὶ ἐκάλεσε Μωϋσῆν, καὶ ἐλάλησε Κύριος αὐτῷ ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ τοῦ μαρτυρίου.» Ἀριθμοὶ, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή «Καὶ ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς Μωϋσῆν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τῇ Σινᾶ ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ τοῦ μαρ τυρίου.» 28.285 ∆ευτερονόμιον, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι, οὓς ἐλάλησε Μωϋσῆς παντὶ Ἰσραὴλ πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, πρὸς δυσμαῖς, πλησίον τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης.» Ἰησοῦς ὁ τοῦ Ναυῆ, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Καὶ ἐγένετο μετὰ τὴν τελευτὴν δούλου Κυρίου, εἶπε Κύριος τῷ Ἰησοῦ, υἱῷ Ναυῆ, λειτουργῷ Μωϋσῆ, λέγων.» Κριταὶ, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Καὶ ἐγένετο μετὰ τὴν τελευ τὴν Ἰησοῦ, καὶ ἐπηρώτησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἐν Κυρίῳ λέγοντες· Τίς ἀναβήσεται πρὸς τοὺς Χανα ναίους ἀφηγούμενος;» Ῥοὺθ, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ κρίνειν τοὺς κριτὰς, ἐγένετο λιμὸς ἐν τῇ γῇ.» Βασιλειῶν πρώτη καὶ δευτέρα, εἰς ἓν ἀριθμούμεναι βιβλίον. Καὶ τῆς μὲν πρώτης ἡ ἀρχή· «Καὶ ἄνθρω πος ἐξ Ἀρμαθαῒμ Σιφᾶ, ἐξ ὄρους Ἐφραῒμ, καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῷ Ἐλκανᾶ, υἱὸς Ἱερεμεὴλ, υἱοῦ Ἡλεί.» Τῆς δὲ δευτέρας ἡ ἀρχή· «Ἐγένετο μετὰ τὸ ἀπο θανεῖν Σαοὺλ, καὶ ∆αβὶδ ἀνέστρεψε τύπτων τὸν Ἀμα λήκ.» Βασιλειῶν τρίτη καὶ τετάρτη, εἰς ἓν πάλιν ἀρι θμούμεναι βιβλίον. Καὶ τῆς μὲν τρίτης ἡ ἀρχή· «Καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς ∆αβὶδ πρεσβύτερος, προβεβηκὼς ἡμέ ραις· καὶ περιέβαλλον αὐτὸν ἱματίοις, καὶ οὐκ ἐθερ μαίνετο.» Τῆς δὲ τετάρτης ἡ ἀρχή· «Καὶ ἠθέτησε Μωὰβ ἐν Ἰσραὴλ, μετὰ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν Ἀχαάβ.» Παραλειπομένων πρῶτον καὶ δεύτερον, εἰς ἓν ἀρι θμούμενα βιβλίον. Καὶ ἔστι τοῦ μὲν πρώτου ἡ ἀρχή· «Ἀδὰμ, Σὴθ, Ἐνὼς, Καϊνᾶν, Μαλελεὴλ, Ἰαρὲδ,Ἐνὼχ, Μαθουσάλα, Λάμεχ, Νῶε.» Τοῦ δὲ δευτέρου ἡ ἀρχή· «Καὶ ἐνίσχυσε Σαλο μὼν υἱὸς ∆αβὶδ ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ, καὶ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς αὐτοῦ μετ' αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐμεγάλυνεν αὐτὸν εἰς ὕψος.» Ἔσδρας πρῶτος καὶ δεύτερος, εἰς ἓν ἀριθμούμενοι βιβλίον. Καὶ τοῦ μὲν πρώτου ἀρχή· «Καὶ ἤγα γεν Ἰωσίας τὸ Πάσχα ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἑαυτοῦ τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ μηνὸς τοῦ πρώτου.» Τοῦ δὲ δευτέρου ἡ ἀρχή· «Καὶ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει Κύρου τοῦ βασιλέως Περσῶν, τοῦ τελεσθῆναι λόγον ἀπὸ στόματος Ἱερεμίου, ἐξήγειρε Κύριος τὸ πνεῦμα Κύρου τοῦ βασιλέως Περσῶν.» Ψαλτήριον ∆αβιτικὸν, ἔχον ψαλμοὺς ρναʹ· οὗ ἡ ἀρχὴ, ἤγουν ὁ πρῶτος ψαλμός· «Μακάριος ἀνὴρ ὃς οὐκ ἐπορεύθη ἐν βουλῇ ἀσεβῶν.» Παροιμίαι Σολομῶντος, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Παροιμίαι Σολομῶντος υἱοῦ ∆αβὶδ, ὃς ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν Ἰσραὴλ, γνῶναι σοφίαν καὶ παιδείαν.» Ἐκκλησιαστὴς τοῦ αὐτοῦ, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Ῥήματα 28.288 Ἐκκλησιαστοῦ, υἱοῦ ∆αβὶδ, βασιλέως Ἰσραὴλ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ. Ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, τὰ πάντα ματαιότης.» Ἆσμα ᾀσμάτων τοῦ αὐτοῦ, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Ἆσμα ᾀσμάτων, ὅ ἐστι τῷ Σολομών. Φιλησάτω με ἀπὸ φι λημάτων στόματος αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἀγαθοὶ μαστοί σου ὑπὲρ οἶνον.» Ἰὼβ, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Ἄνθρωπός τις ἦν ἐν χώρᾳ Αὐσέτιδι, ᾧ ὄνομα Ἰὼβ, καὶ ἦν ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος ἄμεμπτος καὶ θεοσεβής.» Προφῆται δώδεκα, εἰς ἓν ἀριθμούμενοι βιβλίον. Εἰσὶ δὲ οὗτοι, Ὠσηὲ πρῶτος, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· «Λόγος Κυρίου, ὃς ἐγενήθη πρὸς Ὠσηὲ, τὸν τοῦ

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