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THE KEY OF TRUTH
35. Rejection of the Logos doctrine as developed in the other
Churches. There is indeed no explicit rejection of it in the Key,
but it is ignored, and the doctrine that Jesus Christ is a «nV/ia, a
man and not God, leaves no room for it in the Paulician theology.
See the Key, p. 114; and cp. Greg. Mag. p. 147 :
' They make no confession
at all except of what is repugnant to all Christian ordinances and beliefs.'
36. For the same reason they must have rejected the term
6(Ot6kos.
See the Key, p. 114.
37. The elect one was an anointed one, a Christ, and the ordinal
is a ritual for the election and anointing of a presbyter in the same
way as Jesus was elected and anointed, namely by the Holy Spirit.
See the Key, p. 95,
the words beginning :
Also p. 40, the passage beginning :
' Now therefore it is necessary,' &c.
' And then the elect one,' &c. ; and p. 102,
beginning: 'Behold them,' &c. Compare Greg. Nar. p. 127 : 'of their self-
conferred contemptible priesthood, which is a likening of themselves to Satan.'
We may note that in the Key itself the elect one is not declared to be a Christ
in the same trenchant terms which Gregory of Narek uses in levelling his accu-
sations. Greg. Mag. also testifies to their ordinations, as in the phrases on
p. 144 : ' their outlandish choice (or election) by consent '
' . . . their strange and
horrible and loathsome assumption of sufferings ; of their priest-making with-
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out high priest ' . . . their worthless ordinations with nothing at all.'
In addition to the Armenian writers, whose testimony we have
adduced, there are the Greek writers who enumerate the Paulician
tenets. They all used in turn an older document, namely, the
description of the Paulicians inserted in the Codex Scorialensis,
I. . 1. of the Chronicle of Georgius Mo?iachus l
by some later
editor of that chronicle 2 . This document is the nucleus of the
accounts of them given by Photius (c. 820-c. 891), Contra
Manichcos, liber i. §§ 1-10, and by Petrus Siculus, a contemporary
of Photius. It was then used by Petrus Hegumenos, by Zigabenus
(c. 1081-1118), by Pseudo-Photius, liber i. 10-iv. Each of these
writers, no matter what his pretensions to originality, embodies
this document in his account of the Paulicians, and adds
to it details from other sources. Among these additions the
citations of the Epistles of Sergius interest us most for our present
1 To this source I allude as Scor.
s This document has been edited with commentary by J. Friediich in the
Sitzungsboichle der Philos.-Philol. Classc der k. b, Akademit der Wissenschaften
zu Munchen, 1896, Heft i, under the title: 'Der ursprungliehe bei Georgios
Monachos nur theilweise erhaltene liericht iiber die L'aulikianer.' I cannot
exaggerate my indebtedness to the editor of it.