To the Alexandrians
Dionysius of Alexandria
Section 4
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4. To these statements he in due succession makes this
Opening the library…
Opening the library…
To the Alexandrians
Dionysius of Alexandria
4. To these statements he in due succession makes this
ἀναμασσόμενοι τὰς ἀλγηδόνας. Some make this equivalent to mitigantes. It means properly to “wipe off,” and so to become “responsible” for. Here it is used apparently to express much the same idea as the two preceding clauses.
μόνης φιλοφροσύνης ἔχεσθαι.
The phrase περίψημα πάντων refers to 1 Cor. iv. 13. Valesius supposes that among the Alexandrians it may have been a humble and complimentary form of salutation, ἐγώ ειμι περίψημά σου; or that the expression περίψημα πάντων had come to be habitually applied to the Christians by the heathen.