The differences between (5 and ffl can be tabu- lated as touching the sequence or the subject- matter. The difierences of the subject-matter are, of course, of greater interest ; they are of a tliree- fold character — additions, omissions, variations.
On the differences of sequence see Sw. pp. 231- 242. There are unimportant diflerences in Gn 31. 36. 47, Ex 20 (order of commandments) ; Nu 1. 6. 26, Jos 9. 19 (vol. ii. p. 782) ; great differences in Ex 35^0, 3 Kegn. 4. 5. 6. 7. 10. 11, Pr 15. 20. 24, Jer 25-41. On Ex. see vol. i. p. 810 f.; on Kings, ii. 862 If. ; on Prov., Sw. p. 241 ; on Jer., vol. iii. p. 573 f.).* Very awkward is the different number- ing of the Psalms.
On the difference in the subject-matter see Sw. 242 If. If we were to have a complete edition of Origen's Hexapla with its critical signs, it would be convenient to see at a glance the omissions and additions.
The Law offers the smallest number of dif- ferences ; but besides some famous additions, as Gn 4' SUXOw^fi' els rd Treolox, the second Kaivdv (who has been erased in Cod. A 10") 10-"" 11"-" (1 Ch l"-23 A) — his addition, in connexion with other variations, made the whole chronology of the world different, see vol. i. p. 397 If ; Oikonomos, iii. 703-835 — there are smaller additions of interest, as 8 sons of Japheth for 7 in Gn 10; 11 nations for 10 in Gn 15"- '■'''(the addition of the Ei/aioi, either overlooked by Origen or wanting in his copy) ; 5 sons of Dedan for 3 in 25' ; 13 heinous offences for 12 in Dt 27 (on v.* see Grintield, Apology, pp. xii, 191).
On Joshua, which does not seem to have been translated together with the Pentateuch, see vol. ii. p. 781 ff., and Bennett (SHOT). On the word laTuoi — or yaialis ; this is the accentuation of B"" — Oikonomos, ii. 495 If, 551, has 40 pages.
For Judges, e.g. 16"- ", it is sufficient to refer to G. Moore.
The chapters 1 Regn. (Samuel) 17. 18 furnish a good example of how much difference of opinion still prevails. What Kuenen and Wellhausen call a liarmonLstic omission on the part of G, is con- sidered by others as a later interpolation in ilS.
That G preserved in 3 liegn. (1 K) 8'^; " a quo- tation from the Book of Jashar (see vol. ii. p. 551), and, with it, what Kittel (Ilnndkom.) styles the oldest more explicit confession of Jahweh in Israel, should alone be sufficient to prove its importance.
For the Book of Psalms even cursive MSS of G enrich our knowledge almut the liturgical use of the Psalms (see Sw. 250); in the alphabetic psalm 145 the missing letter 1 is restored, perhaps only
• B. Pick In The (Amerlc.) Indtpmdent (1897, p. 1273) wrltet on OomlU's edition of JureniiaJi (in SBOT): 'II Ihave counted ripht, no less than 1S21 words have thus Deon eliminated from the t«xt ; and It is surprising that none of these relegated pas* sages ooDoera any of the quoUUon* from Jar. In lbs NT.'
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by conjecture. The adilition to Ps 13' quoted in Ro 3"-'* is omitted by A and 05 cursives out of 105. Already Jerome declared the codices of ffi ■which contain it, to be interpolated from Ko 3. If this be so, the agreement of sB, on which for the XT Westcott-Hort laid so much stress, is of no great value at least for the I'salras ; * on the other hand, it is to the credit of those MSS if thty have preserved a text similar to that in the hands of St. Paul.— On Ps 151 see Oikonomos, iii. 634 f.; on the ecclesiastical Canticles and the Prayer of Manassas among them, Nestle, S.it. iii. 6 11'. ; and note that tliis piece has not been utilized for the Greek Concordances of Trommius and Hatch- Redpatli {cf. dv€^txvla.(TTot, dfirn-oaraTOS^ &ct€kto$).
On Proverbs Lagarde's early book of 1863 is still useful.
Whether the shorter form of Job, in wliich, according to Jerome's reckoning, ' sei)tingenti ferme aut octingenti versus desunt,' preserved a primitive form, or is, on the contrary, the etiect of abbreviation, see vol. ii. p. 164 ; and correct there the statement from Origen, that sometimes 16 or 19 verses were missing, into 14 or 15 (Ex- positor;/ Times, X. 523 ; Sw. 2o5).
On Esther see vol. ii. p. 774 ; the Greek of the book reminds one of 2 Mac. (cf. Tpio-aXiTijpios) ; on Jeremiah see ii. 572 ; and cf. i. 252 as to the identity of language in Jer. and Baruch, which book in all MSS of C is immediately connected with Jer. and Lamentations. On the heading of the latter see vol. iii. p. 22. On Daniel see i. 557. Dn 11^ is the only passage where the name of the 'Pu^aioi occurs in a translation from the Hebre^^■ (for d'b? as in C O"^ Xu 24~). The affinity of the Greek of this book with that of 1 Esdras has been justly pointed out in i. 761.
In .Jeremiah, Esther, and Daniel (5 oilers con- siderable passages not to be found in Itl ; hut in addition to these ffi has preserved whole books, some of them of the highest liistorieal or theo- logical interest, which are not to be found in the Hebrew Canon, partly because they were origin- ally WTitten in Greek, partly for unknown reasons.