DE DIONYSIO AREOPAGITA original: ON DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE

Published in 1563, 8vo. octavo. Saint Methodius and Nicephorus Gregoras, with translation and notes by Petrus Lanselius, along with the works of Dionysius the Areopagite, as well as a special apologetic dissertation on Dionysius the Areopagite and his writings, Paris 1615, folio, in Greek and Latin; also published by Balthasar Corderius, who also collected the writings of others concerning the life of Dionysius, Antwerp 1633, 2 volumes, folio: Michael Syngelus, translated from Greek to Latin by Godefridus Tilmannus, a Carthusian monk, and made public in Paris, 1546. Among more recent authors: Joachim Peronius, Paris 1566; Stephanus Binetus in the French language, Paris 1624; Petrus Halloisius, Antwerp 1633, etc.

And this is the person in whose name not a few writings seek to borrow light. We omit for now the Symbolic Theology; On the Legal Priesthood; On Divine Hymns; On things which fall under the intellect and sense; Hypotyposes or Theological Information; On the Soul; and Treatises on Just and Divine Judgment: for the reason that, although they are mentioned here and there in those very books of Pseudo-Dionysius now being discussed, they either never existed or have perished through the injury of time. However, those which have survived to our own age are chiefly the following: The Book on the Celestial Hierarchy; from which, however, Saint Maximus wrongly distinguishes it as something entirely different, he who is cited under the title On the Angelic Orders and Properties, Chapter IV, On Divine Names of the Pseudo-Dionysius, although here it is indicated as the primary argument of the whole book: Commentary on the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy; two Disputations, one on the Divine Names, another on Mystical Theology: To these are added 11 Epistles (Authors of the New Antiquity, Year 1707