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Review REVIEW Makarios/Symeon, Reden und Briefe. Die Sammlung I des Vaticanus Graecus 694 (B). Herausgegeben von Heinz Berthold. I : Einleitung und Tabellen, die Logoi B 2-29; II : Die Logoi B 30-64, Register (Die Grie- chischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte). Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1973. Pp. LXXX, 265; VIII, 309. M 118.-. The unknown Syrian author who wrote under the pseudonym Macarius is possibly the most influential mystic of the Christian tradition, because he made an impact upon Syriac Christianity and Islamic mysticism, Greek and Russian orthodoxy, German Pietism (Gottfried Arnold) and Anglo- Saxon Methodism (Wesley). From the historical point of view he is important, because he is a representative of Syrian Encratism. It has been observed long ago that during a certain period in Mesopotamia only un- married or divorced people were admitted to baptism. Even Aphraates still alludes to this practice, though in his time there did exist married Christians. Now, Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3,82,6 refutes the con- cept of Tatian, according to which baptism necessarily leads to complete abstention from sexual intercourse. This view, then, was not indigenous in Edessa, but imported by the Encratite Tatian. It may be that it was generally admitted by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vigiliae Christianae Brill

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Vigiliae Christianae , Volume 30 (1): 77 – Jan 1, 1976

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Brill
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© 1976 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0042-6032
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1570-0720
DOI
10.1163/157007276X00087
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REVIEW Makarios/Symeon, Reden und Briefe. Die Sammlung I des Vaticanus Graecus 694 (B). Herausgegeben von Heinz Berthold. I : Einleitung und Tabellen, die Logoi B 2-29; II : Die Logoi B 30-64, Register (Die Grie- chischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte). Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1973. Pp. LXXX, 265; VIII, 309. M 118.-. The unknown Syrian author who wrote under the pseudonym Macarius is possibly the most influential mystic of the Christian tradition, because he made an impact upon Syriac Christianity and Islamic mysticism, Greek and Russian orthodoxy, German Pietism (Gottfried Arnold) and Anglo- Saxon Methodism (Wesley). From the historical point of view he is important, because he is a representative of Syrian Encratism. It has been observed long ago that during a certain period in Mesopotamia only un- married or divorced people were admitted to baptism. Even Aphraates still alludes to this practice, though in his time there did exist married Christians. Now, Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3,82,6 refutes the con- cept of Tatian, according to which baptism necessarily leads to complete abstention from sexual intercourse. This view, then, was not indigenous in Edessa, but imported by the Encratite Tatian. It may be that it was generally admitted by

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Published: Jan 1, 1976

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