{"author":"Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)","date_end":1886,"date_label":"1886 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain)","date_start":1886,"edition_year":1886,"edition_year_basis":"Original ANF VIII title and copyright 1886; physical transcription printing date uncertain; original translator and contributor roles qualified","id":"ws-library-full-note:d8d37baed5f28fbd7068:cite_note-94","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"editorial-footnote","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Chapter uncertain, editorial note cite_note-94","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["“First of all, know thou, my son Philip,” said he to me, “that the astrologers have invented this statement as a device for the promotion of error. For, although the earth be divided into seven portions, yet in every one of the seven portions many laws are to be found differing from one another. For there are not seven kinds of laws only found in the world, according to the number of the seven stars; nor yet twelve, according to the number of the signs of the zodiac; nor yet thirty-six, according to the number of the Decani. But there are many kinds of laws to be seen as you go from kingdom to kingdom, from country to country, from district to district, and in every abode of man, differing one from another. For ye remember what I said to you—that in one zone, that of the Hindoos, there are many men that do not eat the flesh of animals, and there are others that even eat the flesh of men. And again, I told you, in speaking of the Persians and the Magi, that it is not in the zone of Persia only that they have taken for wives their daughters and their sisters, but that in every country to which they have gone they have followed the law of their fathers, and have preserved the mystic arts contained in that teaching which they delivered to them. And again, remember that I told you of many nations spread abroad over the entire circuit of the world, who have not been confined to any one zone, but have dwelt in every quarter from which the wind blows, and in all the zones, and who have not the arts which Mercury and Venus are said to have given when in conjunction with each other. Yet, if laws were regulated by zones, this could not be; but they clearly are not: because those men I have spoken of are at a wide remove from having anything in common with many other men in their habits of life."],"source_library_url":"/library/d8d37baed5f28fbd7068/#ws-library-full-note:d8d37baed5f28fbd7068:cite_note-94","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_VIII/Memoirs_of_Edessa_And_Other_Ancient_Syriac_Documents/Bardesan._The_Book_of_the_Laws_of_Divers_Countries#cite_note-94","translator":"Benjamin Plummer Pratten (English translator), William Cureton (underlying translation and most unmarked notes), William Wright (textual collations), Robert Payne Smith (acknowledged lexical assistance), Alexander Roberts (Edinburgh series editor), James Donaldson (Edinburgh series editor), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (American revision with prefaces and notes), Matthew Brown Riddle (American volume collaborator; individual note authorship unspecified)","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/source-library-note-batch-0064/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"a85b105353c0e261feb8daea5e12d8eb4af102efce8f9e933488229612d7af94","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:d8d37baed5f28fbd7068:cite_note-94"},"verified":true,"work":"Bardesan. The Book of the Laws of Divers Countries","work_id":"ws-anf8-supported-1886-41e405d55ed2e4ae55262070"}