"^A"2m, all rules of textual criticism are nought if such additions be not glosses, and glosses added to the Greek, not to the original Hebrew text ; and yet they occur in C. ISjC, therefore, is dependent —partially at least— ona glossed text of ffi, as it V} represented by 248, 253. . .
It is to be hoped that scholars will agree in tins, and thev may do so the more because this con- cession does not decide the question for the other MSS ABD, nor even for the whole content ot y; C bein<' an exception also in this respect, that it does not give a continuous text, but mere excerpts from chs. r-^-r^ 18»i-20'; then come suddenly 3719. 22. 24. 28 f followed by 20", and, finally, '-'o --0 .
If 1)0 is 'chiefly dependent on G, there abound in the other MSS JtJABD traces of the influence of S, especially in so-called doublets, passages appearing twice. Cf. U" —
In G we have two lines—
n^pSiJ eripfvTTis iv KapriWip, oOrws KapSla iirtptf
(pdvov Kal lis KOTilo-KOTros ivi^Mvei rruxrir.
In 3L three —
sicut perdix inducitnr in caveam {v.l. foveam) et vt caprea in laqueo. sic et cor superborum et sicut prospector videns casumi^roxinu sut.
In S five— like a partridge caught in a cage is the heart
of the proud, and like a spy who looks on the faU ; How many are the iniquities of the ungodly I [cf. ffi v.^'S] . ,
like a dog which enters into every house and
Bo'^enters the ungodly into every house and disturbs.
In ^ six or more — As a bird caught in a cage so is the heart of
a proud man ; As a wolf that lieth in wait to tear. How many are the iniquities of the covetous
man ! i, ^ * • .i,„
As a dog is he among those that eat in tne
bouse.
• It is difficult to understand how Bickell, Zockler, K.v^seU RV couM Irefe the hear, which crept in fron> the u»;n .on ng S lion aui dragon in the co.itext ; S be".S ■nJepcm ent o^ 6 deci.k-8 for the sack ; and then compare parallel '''''' J^" 612, i,ut espcciaUy 1 Clem, ad Cor. 8, -. •W'';" "'^'■■ii^um. ,«-V« «i*.u; see on these variants Nestle, ilargiruuxen,
^'\\t, is omng to this insertion that we have these tiugmeati three times in B, 0, D, with sUght Turialioas.
SIRACH (BOOK OF)
SIRACH (BOOK OF)
549
He doeth violence to all . . .
The covetous man coiueth and luakoth strife
in all their jjoods ; The tale-bearer lieth in wait as a bear for
the house of the scorners ; And as a spy he seeth nakedness.
On the two lines of G Bochart has written a whole chapter in his Uierozoiiinn. More than one article would be necessary on the correspondence between (toriio-itoTros (and its equivalents »O0> = 3m=3n) and the otlier equivalents. It seems clear th%t the dog ^'73 owes its existence to the Ki/n-aWos
On tbe an^menla adduced by Mar^oliouth from the Persian we must refer to Noldekc (ZA TW 1900, p. 94) ; on the question raised l>y Mir^olioulh, wliether the Scphfr ha-gatuy, wliich betrays linowieaffe of the Cairene texts, is by Saadia or not ; and on the aK't' of the Tahnudic quotiitions from Ben-Siru, cf. tiie papers of Mar^'olioutli on the one hand, and Konig, Scliecbter, Abrolianis, Uacher, Harliavy, etc., on the other (see UteracureX
But that even in C fragments nf the original are preserved, see above on 7^. Wliat Jew of later times, who had nothing before him except (5, tKSou Bvyaripa /cai (<r-(i TerfXc/tuj fi^ya. (pryov, co\ild have hit on fdv kxt nn Ksin? Even with the help of * it would have been difficult to arrive at this text. But there are jiassages where }1» oilers read- ing's dillerent alike from G and S.
A good exanijjle occurs in tbe very first leaf dis- covered of Jti, 41)'" —
© for)) airrapKOVs ipyirov yXvKavB-finerai Kal Inrip d^npirepa i eOplsKuv 0r]ffavp6r.
The very context shows that C5 is WTong ; in- stead of the one member airrdpKovs ipyarou there must have been two. Grotius, Grabe, l'"ritzsche, A\', UV, inserted koI and spoiled the sense ; for the life of the aurdpKTjs is sweet [ipue suii pollens opihus, Luiretiu.s), but not that of tlie working man. i (rave no hel]) ; for the first member is wanting. What a pleasure then, to read in |t! —
irnD' -i^o\ (" "n
a life of vrine and strong drink if sweet ; cf. the same pair in v.'" in ]1), where ffi had oTj-oj rai ^oiwutt = Tr, and 5 xp'ny K-cn 'old wino.' And what a surprise to find on the margin an additional (though wrong) reading : '^dc •im'(C-N = ' that excels in prudence'; but "Jiv perhaps = ai>r(ip»ti)s). The gr.Tudson mistook i:y ' strong drink ' for ■i(')r7 'hired worker.'* What a surprise, again, to find the whole margin of this leaf covered with various readings, spellings, notes — one in Persian referring toadilfiniit MS.
v."", where we h.ad read in ffi that 'better than wine and nmsic is the love of wisdom,' in 5 'better than old wine the love of a, friend,' we now find that the grandfather had written, 'Wine and strong drink make the he.art exult, but the love of liircrs (n-^ii) is above them all.'