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Excerpt from A Sermon Preached in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, on Sunday, June 19th, 1864, After the Death of the Rev. William Cureton, D.D., F. R. S
The last years of his life were employed in completing a work which he had announced in the preface to The Festul Letters of St. Athanasius, p. Xxiii., note. The text and part of the translation were printed at the time when he met with the rail way accident that ultimately caused his death. Fortunately, he was able to finish the translation and notes before his health altogether gave way; but the preface, in which the results of the work were to have been summed up, and his views regarding various questions stated, has, we fear, never been written. According to his own statement, the book contains, among other things, a considerable portion of the original Aramaic document which Eusebius cites as preserved in the archives of Edessa, and various passages from it, quoted by several authors, with other testimonies, which seem to be sufficient to establish the fact of the early conversion of many of the inhabitants of that city, and among them of the King himself, although his successors afterwards relapsed into Paganism. The unwritten preface would have set forth Dr. Cureton's reasons for believing that the epistles ascribed to our Lord and King Abgar of Edessa were not improbably genuine. Whether right or wrong, he had certainly studied the question most carefully, and no man was more competent to form a correct opinion upon the subject.
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