Background
William Cureton was born at Westbury, in Shropshire.
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William Cureton was born at Westbury, in Shropshire.
After being educated at the free grammar school of Newport, and at Christ Church, Oxford, William Cureton took orders in 1832, became chaplain of Christ Church, sublibrarian of the Bodleian, and, in 1837, assistant keeper of MSS.
Cureton's most remarkable work was the edition with notes and an English translation of the Epistles of Ignatius to Polycarp, the Ephesians and the Romans, from a Syriac MS. that had been found in the monastery-of St Mary Deipara, in the desert of Nitria, near Cairo.
He held that the MS. he used gave the truest text, that all other texts were inaccurate, and that the epistles contained in the.
MS. were the only genuine epistles of Ignatius that we possess-a view which received the support of F. C. Baur, Bunsen, and many others, but which was opposed by Charles Wordsworth and by several German scholars, and is now generally abandoned (see Ignatius).
Cureton supported his view by his Vindiciae Ignatianae and his Corpus Ignatianum, -a Complete Collection of the Ignatian Epistles, genuine, interpolated and spurious.
He also edited a partial Syriac text of the Festal Letters of St Athanasius, which was translated into English by Henry Burgess (1854), and published in the Library ofFathers of the Holy Catholic Church-, Remains of a very Ancient Recension of the Four Gospels in Syriac, hitherto unknown in Europe; Spicilegium Syriacum, containing Remains of Bardesan, Meliton, Ambrose, Mara Bar Serapion-, The third Part of the Ecclesiastical History of John, Bishop of Ephesus, which was translated by Payne Smith; Fragments of the Iliad of Homer from a Syriac Palimpsest-, an Arabic work known as the Thirty-first Chapter of the Book entitled The Lamp that guides to Salvation, written by a Christian of Tekrit; The Book of Religious and Philosophical Sects, by Muhammed al Sharastani; a Commentary on the Book of Lamentations, by Rabbi Tanchum; and the Pillar of the Creed of the Sunnites.
Cureton also published several sermons, among which was one entitled The Doctrine of the Trinity not Speculative but Practical.
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