[.V.B.— Except when quoting from the Volg., the verses ue tboM of the RV].
PeexUxarH\e$ (if Uxt.—{m) B stands alone (except HO) In omitting the bleiwing of Oabael, 9« ; ami in its romlensation of Edna's prayer, lO'^; though IIL and Viilg. omit this entirulv. Unique readings are : glory of the great Itapho*:!, 31^ ; Jonah^ 148; Naibas. IIW; Aman, UlO ; 168 years old. 14U.— </3) k. There are scores of frix»t odded by M to the text of B. A few 01Q7 be noted : 1^ Thisbe is 'west of Thogor ' ; P iHracl Ba<Ti- ficxd CO the calves * ou all the Mta. of Galilee ' ; K" * on the 7tb
of the month Dysirua *e cut the web ' ; 53 Raguel and Tobit divided the oond into two, and each took half ; S" the men- dacious angel says, ' I have come here to work ' ; 08 ' blow on the films' ; cL also lOio Vl^ 13i6. K omits 47io (owing probably to a leaf being lost) and IS^b-io In 1318 jt gives the correct spelling 'Axn«a/f, and gives a fuller account of him than B. — (■y) Greek cursin.^. A remarkable Gnostic reading occurs in b'^ 'Let all the ^Eons praise thee, and let thy angels bless thee.* This is the only Or. text which says * the dog ran bc/vre them' (ll^X — (8) i>i/riac, which is really two recensions con- nected at 711, shows the (act in change of spelling : Achior, 210 ; Ahikar, 1410; lUga, 4i- "•»; 'Ara^', »=* ; *Edna, 72; 'K.hia, 714. Alterations :— 102 years, 14'- ; 1U7 \ ears, 141* ; 10 days, b-^. Addi- tions : — Edna dressed Sarah, 71*^ ; Anna put on a veil before going to meet her son, 11". Omissions : — ISO-lt*, where Tobit exults in the glories of the future Jerusalem ; 14^ * Jonah ' and also * Nahum ' ; 14^ the woi-ds, ' but not like to the former house ' ; 14*^^ that all nations shall forsake idolatry ; 71^ the marriage contract. — (*) Aramaic is embedded in a Midrash, and is inserted there to show the merit of giving tithes. The moral at the end also is : * Ht-hold we learn how great is the power of alms and tithes,' and On 14^0 gQi3 28-^ are cited in continuation. Its chief peculiarity is that the SIS virtually closes with ch. 11. A few lines, in place of Oreek ch. 12, state that U.'iphael did not go into the house, but went his way ; and when Tobias went out to seek him he could not find him, nor had any one seen him ; and thus Tobit knew he was an angeL In place of ch. 14, Aram, states that, when Tobit fell sick, he called for his son and impressed on him the importance of almsgiving from the example of the three patriarcha Aram, omitcj Tobit's genealogy, 1*; Alpiljar's offices, 1^ \ Elymais, 210; and the dog, 6" e^N 11^ On the other hand, it txpanda Sennacherib's return, 1*8 ; Anna's welcome to Sarah, U^ ; and Tobit's thanksgiving. Ill*, in 10"^ Aram, and HM say, 'Anna ate nothing but tears.' Aram, abridges the destination of the three tithes, l^-s ; calls Asmodseus ' kijig of Shedim,' i^- 1"+ ; and renders 6"* 'without money, God has fed us.' It contains 47-i» lacking in K ; and agrees with B against K about as often as with K against B. — (0 ileb. Munsteri is remarkable for its omissions from the Or., sometimes pruning its redundancies as in 4«. Ilia 611- 1-*+. With Aram, it omits I-i ; Klymais, 2lo. It omits Sarah's intention to hang herself, 310; and her going to meet Tobias, 71. It omits ' Noah ' from 4l3 ; the citation of On 21** in a^ ; Tobit's conversation with Anna, 10'-*-* ; and Ahiljar's visit. 111**. It abridges Tobit's prayer for death, 3^ ; and the prayers In 8^ 8i-'f- 12^^. But HM hua also several original enlargements : notably after 120, where we have ft Midrosh on the mischief caused by Sennacherib. After 'i* it cites Is P, and Ps 17^^ after 410. It abridges and modiiies the Song in ch. 13 (omittin-^ ch. 14), and its last words are, ' O Lord of the world 1 show us m our days salvation and rwlemption by the coming of our Redeemer and the bnikiing of Ariel' ; then citing Jer 23**, Ps 147-. Theological features are the thrice repeated prayer for ' children devoted to the Law,' 8^ 96 iqU ; tlie designation of Raphael as 'prince,' 3i7 1215; Jerusalem as ' Ariel,' 131" ; and Jehovah as ' the Holy One, blessed be he,' 41" 121'-+. A play on words occurs in 3' ' It is not meet to call thee Sarali, out ^farah (distress).' Instances in which IIJI agrees witli Aram, against the Or. are : lio (dwell),, li^ (until his death), 2io (every morning), 53 9- ^ (bag), 3»o 1211 (throne), 017 (under her clothes), 61° (' foreseen ' for •foreordained'), 10' (nothing but tears).— (»;) Heb. Fa'jii dilTers from B very con- siderablv. It is fond of inserting OT texts : S^ Ps 401^*, 30 I's 033, 413 i»r lO'S, 4i« Pr 3^, 13^ Ps 80^5 gon 7210, JerSli?. It aims at precision: in speaking of * peace-offerings,' l*;*a beka" for ^a drachma,' ^4; 'the right of redemption,* 3" 710 ; Hhe eternal home,' 3"* ; * the Torah and the Hulakhah,' 71^ ; the seven blessings, 71^ ; the cemetery, S^ ; and ospeci.illy in l*', where It assigns the thinl tithe Mor the repair of the breaches of the house,' ct 2K 22*. Interesting theological allusions occur: Sifl prayer was heard before our Father in heaven, 4il the iudgment of Oehinnom, 86 the first Adam, Ci" llic union of Tobias and Sarah was foreseen from the Uth day of creation, 81* the vEons of the Gr. cursives are describi'd as ' those who are exalted above all blessing and praise,' 141^ 'the house shall stand until the completion of one mon.' But the learned lUbbl was no geographer. He gives AlemaniaaOennany for Elvninis in 210; Midian for Media, l"; and Laodicea (V), 0^. The latter part of ch. 14 is meagre. Ahikar is omitted lli» 14io._^(j) ijeb. Lond, is, as wo have said, "remarkable for presenting many readings heretofore found only in Vuiu'ate. Such, e.g., arc l'* ' power to go where he wished '+, 1^ Tobit fled naked with wife and son, 2l'^'f the parallel between Tobit and Job, Sio Sarah spent 3 days in prayer, Ci«o^- Raphael wlviscs 3 nights of con- tinence. HL also agrees with Vulg. in omitting Abitr&r Lu B 210 and the doctors in N 2io, as well as in many other omis- sions ; but HL gives the absurd amount of lO(K) talents In 1'* ; It narrates Sarali's intended suicifle, which Vulg. omits, 3'8 ; it states that Anna went to the outakirtJiof the town, 6II ; and that a large i>arty went with the bridal ]mT a day's Journey home wards ; and every one gave a ring uf gold and a kMtah and k