"The Journal of sacred literature, ed. by J. Kitto. [Continued as] The Journal of sacred literature and biblical record.
[Continued as] The Journal of sacred literature."
Volume 3, 1863
Subheading: Miscellanies.
Page 493
"Here comes the original Greek of the letter of Kallinikos, but the English translation of it will be enough for our purpose.
“To the Most Venerable Priest, J. Silvester Davies, of Southampton, England.
From the Monastery of Mount Sinai, 1 (13) April, 1863.
"Most pious, and by me most respected, Sir—I received the valuable letter, brought to me from you, written at Southampton on February 25 of this same year, in which you ask me, in the first place, whether the letters published in several English journals under the signature ‘ Kallinikos Hieromonachos,” and defending Mr. Simonides, are indeed my letters or not; secondly, whether the said Mr. Simonides ever visited the monastery of Mount Sinai. In answer to your first question I reply, that besides myself there is no other Kallinikos Hieromonachos in this holy monastery. But I lived away from the monastery from the year 1838 to 1855, having been sent on different monastic services to Damascus, Rhodes, and elsewhere; and never anywhere have I made acquaintance with any Simonides. Since, then, there is no other Kallinikos Hieromonachos besides myself among the brethren of this monastery, and I have never known any Simonides, and consequently I did not write the aforesaid letters to shield him in his tricks, it follows that these letters have been forged by Simonides himself. To answer your second question, I sought to know for certain from my aged and long-standing brethren, whether they remembered any one called Simonides having come up to Mount Sinai, and having visited our holy monastery : and they all expressly assured me in the negative, that certainly never did any Simonides appear in this monastery. One of the brethren declared to me above all, that in the year 1852, being at Alexandria, he saw Mr. Simonides, who had landed there with the view of going thence to Damietta and Upper Egypt. But suddenly, without going anywhere, he went to England, having embarked in the ship
Kasion,’ Captain Nicholas Maliaraki. Since, then, Mr. Simonides never visited Mount Sinai, but having only just come to Alexandria, immediately went thence to England; he lies when he positively affirms that the ancient MS. of the Holy Scripture, published by Mr. Tischendorf, is his work;
because the MS. in question (as the librarian of our holy monastery, having been so from the year 1841 to 1858, assured me) belonged to the library of the monastery, and was marked in its ancient catalogue(s). The book, then, which the librarian who was appointed in 1841 found in this library, how could it possibly be the work of Simonides, who never set foot on Mount Sinai, but only got as far as Alexandria in 1852, and went back directly from thence without having visited any other part of Egypt? In every way, then, the assertion of Simonides is proved false, when he says that that ancient MS. was his work. As to myself, if the great distance of place and my own advanced years permitted, I would willingly deliver him over to the righteous dealing of the laws
as having abused me, and
forged under my name those letters to prop up
his great charlatanism.—Accept, Sir, my unfeigned respect, with which I am your sincere friend, KALLINIKOS HIEROMONACHOS OF SINAI."
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