{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1447.tlg009.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1447.tlg009.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1447.tlg009.local001","title":"Fragmenta Synodicae Epistulae","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Irenaeus, Saint, Bishop of Lyon","authorityName":"IRENAEUS Theol.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1447-irenaeus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1447-irenaeus/","editors":["Martin Joseph Routh"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Reliquiae Sacrae: Sive, Auctorum Fere Jam Perditorum Secundi Tertiique Saeculi Post Christum Natum Quae Supersunt.","edition":null,"publisher":"Oxford University Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1846","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital editor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/reliquiaesacraes02rout/page/39/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Irenaeus, Saint, Bishop Of Lyon. Fragmenta Synodicae Epistulae. ed. Martin Joseph Routh. Reliquiae Sacrae: Sive, Auctorum Fere Jam Perditorum Secundi Tertiique Saeculi Post Christum Natum Quae Supersunt., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1846. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1447.tlg009.local001","excerpt":"Οὐδὲ γὰρ μόνον περὶ τῆς ἡμέρας ἐστὶν ἡ ἀμφισβήτησις, ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τοῦ εἴδους αὐτοῦ τῆς νηστείας. οἱ μὲν γὰρ οἴονται μίαν ἡμέραν δεῖν αὐτοὺς νηστεύειν· οἱ δὲ δύο, οἱ δὲ καὶ πλείονας. οἱ δὲ τεσσαράκοντα ὥρας ἡμερινάς τε καὶ νυκτερινὰς συμμετροῦσι τὴν ἡμέραν αὐτῶν. (for. ut Vet. Interp. συμμετροῦντες, ὁρίζουσι τὴν ἡ. αὐ.) καὶ τοιαύτη μὲν ποικιλία τῶν ἐπιτηρούντων· οὐ νῦν ἐφ’ ἡμῶν γεγονυῖα, ἀλλὰ καὶ πολὺ πρότερον ἐπὶ τῶν πρὸ ἡμῶν· τῶν παρὰ τὸ ἀκριβὲς ὡς εἰκὸς κρατούντων, τὴν καθ’ ἁπλότητα καὶ ἰδιωτισμὸν συνήθειαν εἰς τὸ μετέπειτα πεποιηκότων· καὶ οὐδὲν ἔλαττον πάντες οὗτοι εἰρήνευσάν τε, καὶ εἰρηνεύομεν πρὸς ἀλλήλους· καὶ ἡ διαφωνία τῆς νηστείας, τὴν ὁμόνοιαν τῆς πίστεως συνίστησι. Attulit hæc Eusebius lib. v. Hist. c. 24. et proxime post ait: Τούτοις καὶ ἱστορίαν προστίθησιν (Irenæus) ἣν οἰκείως παραθήσομαι τοῦτον ἔχουσαν τὸν τρόπον. Ἐν οἷς καὶ οἱ πρὸ Σωτῆρος πρεσβύτεροι οἱ προστάντες…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1447.tlg009.local001/#tlg1447-tlg009-local001-1"},{"label":"Ex eadem Epistola.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1447.tlg009.local001/#tlg1447-tlg009-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1447.tlg009.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1447.tlg009.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1447/tlg009/local001.json.gz"}}