V. Editions.— (n) The hrst editions of the Greek text are in the Complutensian Polyglot (c) 1514, from cod. 248 § (see below, p. 544"), in the Aldine Bible (a) 1518, which has been taken for this book
* The word rawwet used liere and in the Preface may have the more general meaning ' ancestor,' but in tliis connexion it will be 'gi-andfather.' In the Concordance of Hatch-B«lpath it is quoted from SjTnmachue on Zee 1^, where it seems to belong to
t On the reign of Euergetes we are well informed through the inscriptions of the temple of Edfu (see Dumichen, Die ergte bis jetzt au/ge/undcne gicJiere Angabe uber die Regierungs- zeit eines Agi/pti^chen KSnig8 aus dem alten Reiche, Leipzig, 1874, p. 20 ff. ; and Xlschr. /. dg. Sprachf, 1870). There the years 28, 30, 46, 48, 54 (as the last of this king) are mentioned ; the first Toth of his 2Stb year fell on the '^Sth Seiit. B.C. 143, the first Payni (rise of Sirius) on the 20th-19th July 142.
J Here it may be mentioned that in a late compilation (see C-N, I'p. xivf., xxix) Hen-Sira is made the son or grandson of Jeremiah, and has a son Uziel and a grandson Joseph. See Procerbia lien-Sirce Auturis antiquigsimi, qui creditur /uiste neitits leremitr prophetOB, Opera J. Dmeii. Franeker, 1697. In the Preface Drusius thinks it a ]>robable inference, ' interpretem Orsecum Ecclesiastici Josephum fuis-se Vzielis filiunL' Cf. on this literature the edition of Steiuschneider, Ali/habetum Siraei- dis ulnimque, BeroHni, 18.S8 ; and Schiircr, GJV^ ii. 181.
In other legends he has been brought into connexion with Solomon as his wezlr or secretary ; see above, p. 540* : a legend about Aphkia (the wife of Sir.ich) and Solomon has been pub. lislied in Arabic by Mrs. M. 1). (jibson in number viii. of the Studia Sinaitica, Londcn, 1001.
§ Sirach was committed with the rest of the ' libri Sapien- tiale.s' to the care of Johan de Vergara, who, at the end of bis life, bad no greater wish than to illustrate Sirach by note- (Alvarus Gomex, de rebus gettie a Franc. Ximenio, lib. 2).
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without any doubt from cod. 68; and cod. 68 it.self is, to all appearance, for this book a copy of cod. B, so that a represented the text of cod. B in many passage.-i more faithfully than tlic Sixtine of 1.SS7.* A reprint of a is the edition of Lonicerusf i.-Vrpent. 1526); but the editor introduced many changes: for instance, in 3', where a has ifioO roC rar^iit, riOnicerus put (from the Latin) Kpl/ia tov irarpos. That Loniierus changed his text has Vieen over- looked bj' sul>sei|ui'nt editors and commentators, hence in later books a number of misstatements a-s to the text of a ; J I.onicerus in turn was followed by Melanchtlion (Hasle, 154j), Melanchthon by the eclition of Wechel (1597, see art. Septuagixt, p. 440*).§ The editors of the Sixtine {/>) made use not only of B, but of c a I.onicerus, jlelanchthon, and the coild. V 106, l.'i.i, 2531! (see on 6, above, p. 44U*) ; on Grabe's edition, see p. 440''.
(A) Separate etlilions i if the. ApKi-ryph/i are men- tioned, p. 441''. The edition of Fritz.sche (1871) is the best, but for our partic\dar book quite un- satisfactory (see Nestle, Marg. 1892, pp. 48-58).
(e) Of separate editions of Sirach alone the oldest is: Sentcntice Jesu Siraci</ir, Grtrci summa (iilifjeniia et stm/io singulari cditm, ivm nercs- tariis Annotalionihu.i, Joachimo Camerario, Pabe- pergen., autore, Basileae, 1551, 8vo.1I
It has both Prolopuea, is the first which numbers the verses, and lias u»t;ful notes, especially parallels £roni the classics, but also various readiii;rs. In the Prolujcue, Canierarius writes i;«9ia, (or the doubtml etiiiuio* (v. I. liruoiot and ct^csur.i), which reading; has been mentioned in ttie notes of b and other editions and received into the text by Grabe.
Then comes -o^ia Seipox, sive Ecclexiastinis Greece ad exemplar Eomanum, et Latine ex inter- pretatione J. Drusii, cum castigationibus sive notls eiusdem, Ad Keverendissimuni in Christo palrem D. Johannem Whitgiltum archiepiscopum Cantuariensem, etc., Franekene, 1.596, 4to ; with a double appendix, ' Proverbia-Bensine ' and ' Ad- agiorum Ebraicorum Decuri» aliquot nunquam antehac cdita;.'
Besides the previoue printed editions — among them * Biblia R, Stephani 'fucB fui(io t'fl/o6toot(rt6uu)i/wr,' apparently the edition (Geneva, Ist .March] 1557-5S— Dnisius ni.ide use from ch. 20 on- ward of a collation sent to him through .Ian Gruter from Heidel- ber(?. ' Huius enini hortatu Jacobus Kiinedontius iunior . . . crKlioem Paiatiuio bibliotheca) vetustissiniuni membranaccum cvim editione Camenirii anno 1678 [nic ; in liis nota) he writes 1.^70] Lipsi.-e cusa Hiligentissime contulerau' This is apparently the codex 286 of HP.
A most conscientious edition is that of Hoeschel : Snpicntia Sirar/ii sive Ecclesitisticus, Collatis lecti- onil»i-f vnriantibus membranartim Auguslanarum vetiixtisximanim et xiv prnlerea exemplarium. Addita versione Lntina vulgntn, ex editione Ho- niaiifi, rum notis Davidis Hueschelii Augustani. In quihiis multa SS. Patrum loca illustrantur, Augustje, 1604.
His codex Au[ni8tanus (' H ' in the edition of Fritzsche, p. xxii) is api>arently codex 70 of UP, now at Munich 651, and deserves the more a fresh collation, as HP gave it only for the
• More than thirty readings quoted by Holmes-Parsons as singular from a turn out to be in reality readings of B. How did tin really read In these passaf^esV it seems very badly col. lated, for Hulnies-Parsons.