The Nestorians and their Rituals/Volume 1/Notes by the Editor
NOTES BY THE EDITOR.
1 It would be charitable to add that, in a sect anathematized by his Church, the temporal head of that Church cannot be expected to feel much interest. The Armenian communion, separated rather by a misunderstanding than by heresy, and no doubt shortly to be rejoined to the Orthodox Eastern Church, is on a different footing.
2 Nevertheless, the Catholicos of Armenia is to all intents and purposes Patriarch, and is usually so called in official documents.
3 This See is Metropolitical, and ranks eighth among those that are dependent on Constantinople. The official title of the Prelate is, Metropolitan of Dercus and Neochorum; Most Excellent, and Exarch of all the Thracian Bosporus.
4 This unjust and cruel persecution deserves a longer narration.
5 The Archbishop of Trebizond ranks twenty-second among those subject to Constantinople. He calls himself, Most Excellent, and Exarch of all Lazica.
6 In the Report of the Russian Minister of the Interior for 1843, Amâsia is a Metropolitical See of the Armenian Church, with a Suffragan at Sepucha.
7 No such See now appears in the official notitia of the Church of Constantinople.
8 A Suffragan of the Metropolitan of Agen.
9 If this account be correct, the doctrine of the Syro-Jacobites respecting Adam and Eve is singularly different from that of the Eastern Church, by which they are celebrated in the Menæa.
10 I had already assigned some reasons for not agreeing with this hypothesis of the author's, when, in a later communication, he informed me that he no longer held it.
11 It need hardly be observed that this letter, though curious enough, is a palpable forgery.
12 A far truer account of these negotiations is given by Le Quien, Oriens Christianus, ii. 159,
13 On the contrary, the firmness of Alexander VII., in insisting on a full recognition of the Faith of Ephesus, is deserving of something very different from the cold sneer of Mosheim.
14 This is not exactly correct. Babuæus, a man of bad character, and one of the principal introducers of the Nestorian heresy, who sat from 466 to 486, innovated on the more ancient customs, and permitted marriage to Bishops, and even to the Patriarch: and the innovation remained in force some little time.
15 Nevertheless, I fear that there is too much truth in Boré's account: though of course it would be denied by Nestorians.
16 New Sunday, in the Nestorian, as in the orthodox Eastern Church, is the First after Easter.
17 If this stratagem had been employed by a Jesuit, would it not have met with a severer censure?
18 Here, clearly, Rome was removing what the author himself allows to be a gross corruption, the hereditary Patriarchate: and it is scarcely fair to impute so low a motive to her missionaries.