New Testament Texts as Developed as Centos
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 7:55 pm
Farrar observed that Revelation 18 is a cento of ancient prophecies, carefully selected and arranged.43 It alludes to Jeremiah 51, which is an angry denunciation of Babylon, to Ezekiel 26–27, which are directed against Tyre, and to Isaiah 34:10, which is spoken against Edom. Earlier, in Revelation 11:8, he also linked the stories of the destruction of Edom and Sodon. Farrar also declared that 'Polycarp's language is often almost a cento of phrases from the New Testament and especially from the First Epistle of St. Peter." https://books.google.com/books?id=f48cA ... 22&f=false Shepherd called Polycarp's Letter to the Philippians 'a veritable mosaic of quotation and allusion', while Grant labelled it " nothing but a patchwork of earlier Christian sources." https://books.google.com/books?id=qgVUA ... cQ6AEILTAB Irenaeus' critique of the Gnostics whom this early church father accused of crafting centos or literary devices that weaved together disparate verses “plucked” (κέντρων) from Homer's poems to express a heretical Christian message. But he himself exhibits great skill as a Homeric cento poet too! Jerome encounters a cento wife of Theodosius II named Eudokia and warns against her type https://books.google.com/books?id=bO01p ... &q&f=false Some examples of Eudocia's cento's survive https://books.google.com/books?id=PdEzA ... to&f=false