Enciclopedia Cattolica

DE MONTIBUS SINA ET SION

Volume IV · p. 834 · 1950

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

DE MONTIBUS SINA ET SION. - A writing falsely attributed in some manuscripts to s. Cipriano. The work seeks to explain the apparent contrast between Ex. 2, 3: “From Sion the law shall come forth” and the legislation on Sinai.

Mount Sion is heavenly, Mount Sinai earthly; the former represents the New, the latter the Old Testament. The work is written in popular Latin and contains several inaccuracies (Sinai in Palestine, chap. 3). Its Christological doctrine is very primitive. It does not seem certain that the author knew the writings of s. Cipriano (against H. Koch, Cyprianische Untersuchungen, Bonn 1926, p. 421 sg.); an origin in the pre-Cyprianic period cannot be excluded, but its place cannot be determined. The argument is that of anti-Jewish writings.

BIBL.: For the text published in the Hartel ed., S. Cypriani Opera, in CSEL, III pp. 104-19; cf. also G. Mercati, D'alcuni nuovi iussidi per la critica del testo di S. Cypriano, in Opere minori, III (Studi e Testi, 77), Città del Vaticano 1937, p. 195 sgg.; Ad. Harnack, in Texte und Untersuchungen, 20, III, Lipsa 1900, pp. 135-47; C. H. Turner, in The Journal of Theol. Studies (Cambridge 1906), pp. 597-600 (written in Rome); P. Corssen Ein theologischer Traktat aus der Werdezeit der kirchlichen Literatur des Abendlandes (Die pseudo-cyprianische Schrift: De mont. S. et S.), in Zeitschr. für die neustamentliche Wiss., 12 (1911), pp. 1-36. Erik Peterson
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“DE MONTIBUS SINA ET SION.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), p. 834. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/de-montibus-sina-et-sion.