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Ambrosii Verba Retro Versa e Translatione Graeca (Libri Carolini II, 15)*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2011
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The Libri Carolini, the official Frankish protest against the worship of images decreed by the Seventh Ecumenical Council of II Nicaea in 787, accuses the synodal assembly of having falsified a statement by Ambrose of Milan in such a manner that it favored their own error of image-worship, “ut illorum errori faveret.” On the surface, the author of the Libri Carolini (LC) offers in II, 15 a nearly perfect specimen of textual criticism by comparing the original Ambrose text with the allegedly falsified version to be found in the First Latin translation of the Greek acta of II Nicaea. He cites the genuine Ambrose passage in LC II,15 (p. 75.2–4):
A.
a. “Numquid, cum et divinitatem eius adoramus et carnem, Christum dividimus?
b. Numquid, cum in eo imaginem Dei crucemque veneramur, dividimus eum ?”
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1 Ed. Bastgen, Hubert, MGH, Concilia 2, Supplementum (Hannover-Leipzig, 1924), 74.18–19, Bk. II, c. 15Google Scholar.
2 A similar criticism appears in LC I.23 (p.52.7): “… et sensu et verbis cohaereant ut unum sine alio vix intelligi possit.”
3 Ambrose, De fide, ed. Otto Faller (CSEL 78; Vienna, 1962) is quoted in LC I.4 (p.17), I.7 (p.22), II.16 (p.76); De spiritu sancto, ed. Faller (CSEL 79; 1964), in LC II.5 (p. 67).
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15 Cf. also Ambrose, De fide 1.11.68 (p.29.3 Faller): “aut testimoniis aut argumentis collige veritatem”; 1.11.70 (p. 30.18): “Superest, ut et argumentis veritas colligatur … Argumentare tamen, heretice, ut voles.”
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18 In the Latin version by Anastasius Bibliothecarius of the Greek Acta of II Nicaea, 787. On Leontius see Paul van denVen in Byzantion 25–27 (1955–57), 353 no. 46, to whose list of fragments of Leontius' homily should be added the fragments of the now lost Latin translation of the Greek acta of II Nicaea of ca. 788, preserved in the Libellus Synodalis of the Paris Synod of 825, ed. by Werminghoff, A., MGH, Concilia 2.2 (Hannover-Leipzig, 1908), 513.30–514.38Google Scholar.
19 Jerome, Commentariorum in Danielem, ed. F. Glorie, CCL 75A (1964).
20 See the synopsis by von den Steinen, Entstehungsgeschichte (above, n.8), 48, and Bastgen's notes to the chapter-headings.
21 See n. 18, above.
22 Mansi, XIII.44D10–E2, above.
23 Antifonario Visigótico Mozárabe de la Catedral de León, ed. Louis Brou and José Vives (Barcelona-Madrid, 1959), 91, fol. 70v16. Isidore's version is identical with that of the antiphonary. On the exegesis of the testimonia in LC I.10 (p.29f.) see, e.g., L. W. Barnard, The Testimonium concerning the Stone in the New Testament and in the Epistle of Barnabas, Studia Patristica, III, ed. F. L. Cross (TU, 88; Berlin, 1964), 306–13, to which may be added Wallach, The Origin of Testimonia Biblica in Early Christian Literature, Review of Religion 8 (1943), 130–36Google Scholar.
24 To LC I.11 (p.7131–33), on Onias and his Temple in Egypt, see also Jerome, Comm. in Dan. III.14b, ed. F. Glorie (CCL 75A; 1964), 908f., which seems to be the actual source of the passage.