+ Perhaps we may take as a parallel the transmission of the Epistle of Barnabas. The concluding chapters in our Greek
S (chs. 18-21) are taken from the ‘Two Ways’ or some such source, and these chapters are wholly wanting in the Latin.
t Eight out of these 17 Psalms are Korahite or Asaphite
Οὐρανόν, κιτ.λ.). The'Zl'Elyon of Gn 14 may stand in some relation to this Phen. deity. El (God) was often distinguished by different epithets, bringing out different aspects of the divine nature, as in the patriarchal “w 5x (Gn 173), oby dx (21°), Sane rade Sx (33%), Sena Sx (357), and in the Phen. jon bx (675 1. i. 8; Lidzbarski, Nordsem. Epi- graphik, 419); and so the Canaanite has here his "Bl'Elyon. Wt may have been a deity whom Mel- chizedek recognized, in opposition to other inferior ones, as the Aighest, and in whose name, tradition told, he had blessed Israel’s ancestor: the Israel- itish narrator, not unnaturally, identifies him (v.**) with J”. Thestatement, however, that a deity bear- ing this name was worshipped at ‘Salem’ has not, up to the present time (July 1899), received an
confirmation or illustration from the yh ae
In the other passages quoted, the title seems simply to give expression to the thought that J” is the God who is supreme,—whether over the earth, as ruler and governor of the world (cf. Ps 475 8: 8318 97% 992), or over other gods (95° 96 97°; οἵ, also Cheyne on Ps 738 ; Schultz, OT Theol. ii. 129 f.; Smend, AT Rel.-Gesch. 470). Like ‘God of heaven’ (LOT 519, °553), it is a title which was undoubted! in frequent use in post-exilic times (Cheyne, OP, 26,+ 27, 41,¢ 83f., 164, 314, 464); but it may be questioned how far, except when found in com- bination with other indications, it can be used as a criterion for the date of a psalm. In its Greek form (see Hatch and Redpath’s Concordance to the ΤᾺ, under ὕψιστος), it occurs in the Apocrypha 1 Es 2% 65! 9921 96 To ἸΦΕΊΒΕ 44.4 Jth 13%, Est 1616, Wis 5+ 651, Bar 45 (A), 2 Mac 331,1 3 Mac 6379; and with particular frequency in Ecclus.,—much more frequently indeed than the corresponding Heb. form occurs in the recently discovered Heb. text of this book.§ It is also frequent (as a title) in the Book of Enoch (see Charles’ note on 99%), the Apoc. of Baruch (see Charles on 17!), and 2 (4) Esdras. In the Assumption of Moses it occurs 107. In Rabb. literature it is stated by Dalman (Worte Jesu, 162 f.) to be exceedingly rare.
In the NT the use of the expression is almost confined to St. Luke, the occurrences being Mk 57 = Lk 8% (υἱὲ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ by. : τοῦ by. om. in Mt 8”), Lk 155 85 16: 6%+ (cf. Ps 82°: not in the || Mt 5*), Ac 7“t 161’, He 7! (from Gn 148),
S. R. DRIVER.
MOTE.—Mote is the word chosen by Wycelif and Tindale, and accepted by all the subsequent versions as the tr. of ἐς κάρφος in Mt 75: “-ὅ, Lk 641.2%, The root of κάρφος is κάρφω to dry up, and it signifies a bit of dried stick, straw, or wool, such as, in the illustration, might be flying about and enter the eye. In its minuteness it is con- trasted by our Lord with δοκός, the beam that supports (δέχομαι) the roof of a building. The Gr. word does not elsewhere occur in Mt, and in LXX only in Gn 8" as the tr. of 479, the a applied to the olive leaf which Noah’s dove carried ; ‘ plucked off’ is the Eng. translation.
The origin of the Eng. word ‘ mote’ is unknown. It means any small particle, as Hall, Works, ii. 136, ‘Our mountaines are but moates to God’; ΦΕΡΡΟΙΒΙΙΥ a particle of dust, as Chaucer, Wife of Bath’s Tale, 12, ‘ As thikke as motes in the sonne- beame.’ The use of the word by Wyclif and Tindale led to its early application in the same connexion: thus Barlowe, Dialoge, 73, ‘ Woulde
* The combinations in A ΗΤ' 155 ff. are purely hypothetical.
+ The title ‘high priest of God Most High’ given to John Hyrcanus (Rosh ha-shana, 18b), and Hyrcanus Π. (Jos. Ant. XVI. vi. 2): see further, Geiger, Urschrift, p. 33ff. On the Assumption of Moses, vi. 1 [ποὺ 17], cited 0 , Ῥ. 27, see, how- ever, Charles, ad loc,
t In these passages standing as a title, alone. § See 637 40] marg. 4148 422 443 30 494 50141617 (alone); ba
inby 465. δ 475. 8 4830
MOTH
MOUNT, MOUNTAIN 451
God they were as prest to remove the balk out of their owne eyes, as they be prompte to aspye a lytle mote in other men’s’; and Lever, Sermons, 119, ‘You of the laytye, when ye see these small motes in the eyes of the clargye, take hede too the greate beames that be in your owne oe J. HASTINGS. MOTH (ey ‘dsh).—The LXX tr. this word in Ps 38 (39)* ἀράχνη, in Is 518 χρόνος, in Hos 5" ταραχή, in all other instances σής. There is no reason for these variations. The Arab. ‘uth is the cognate form of the Heb. word. In the NT σής only is used (Mt 6%”, Lk 12%), There are many species of the Tineida, or ‘clothes’ moths,’ in the Hol Land. They are small lepidopterous insects, whic commit immense havoc in clothes, carpets, tapestry, etc. In this warm climate it is almost impossible to guard against their ravages (Is 50°, Ja 5? etc.). *He buildeth his house as a moth’ (Job 27:8) alludes to the frail covering which a larval moth constructs ont of the substance which he con- sumes. ‘Crushed before the moth’ (Job 4%) refers to the way in which woollen stuffs are riddled by the larve of moths, until they become so fragile that they break down to alas at a touch (but see Dillm. and Day. ad ). Moths are men- tioned in Sir 19° 42", α. E. Post.