|| "Avrsoyess dvaypenbes The rendering of the AV throughout this passage needs emending in several points. Thus 3? éyrziE-
AV 1611.
1 Es128 And he bound Joacim and the nobles.
1 Es 421 He sticketh not to spend his life with his wife.
2 Es 1442 and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told, which they knew not.
Jth 39 near unto Judea (m. or Dotea).
Ad. Est 135 differing in the strange manner of their laws.
Wis 14 the body that is sub- ject unto sin.
Wis 73 and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature,
Wis 1718 a pleasing fall of water running violently.
Sir 1515 If thou wilt, to keep the commandments, and to perform acceptable faithful- ness,
RV 1895,
1 Es 138 And Joakim bound the nobles.
1 Es 421 And with his wife he endeth his days.
2 Es 1442 and they wrote by course the things that were told them, in characters which they knew not.
Jth 39 nigh unto Dotvea [i.e Dothan].
Ad. Est 135 following per-
versely a life which is strange |
to our laws. §
Wis 14 a body that is held in pledge |! by sin.
Wis 73 and fell upon the kindred earth Gooredj.. . viv).
Wis 1718 a measured fall, ete. J Sir 15! If thou wilt, thoushalt
keep the commandments ;
And to perform faithfulness
is of thine own good plea- sure, **
* London Quarterly Rev., April 1896, p. 6. t On the value of Mr. R. L. Bensly’s assistance in this section of the work, and the facts connected with his discovery of the
“missing fragment’ of 2 Esdras review of the revised Apoer, in t
» See a full and discriminating he Guardian of 24th Dec. 1895.
t The RV translates the text adopted by Bensly (Fourth Book of Ezra, 1896), in which, ea suecessione, the reading of Cod. C.
displaces the meaningless eacessiones of the Latin,
rection of noctis to not
The cor-
borne out by the Eastern versions,
§ Gr. diayayiy vouwy LeviCovorcey Taperrncowoy,
ll HOT HN PEO), oppignerato,
f a , | prOuos tdaros sopsvonivev Bice.
But is ‘fall’ a necessary part
of the idea? The context seems to point to pubes being ‘the
measured sownd’ or cadence.
** The construction of the second clause in the Greek—xa} rior goijocs evdoxias—is disputed.
ews (v.8) is translated ‘by intercession,’—a meaning which the word bears in 1 Ti 21, but inappropriate here. Data ~er con- gressum occasione is Wahl’s explanation.
{j It is with some hesitation that this passage is placed among the improved renderings. As to the construction, the words viv éy 774 B. should probably be connected, not with évriandi, but with the following s«pérwé:v. The reading of several MSS, vhy tv 77 B, xpos rods Varcras yevoutvny sapere, supports this view. The marg. note, ‘Gr. Galatians,’ appended to ‘Gauls,’ is confusing. TaAsres may mean Galatians; but, like Kéare, it may also mean Gauls, The question is, which does it mean here? See Bissell’s note on 1 Mac 82.
** The Gr. says nothing about rewards : oz tors rap" aurn ... Dropopé. Truth ‘indifferently ministers justice.’—Other passages in this book, where the rendering of the AV needs correction, are 270 ‘are now in hand’ (évepyeiras, ‘are being pushed on’), and 891 ‘children’ (vedévios, ‘youths’).
tt The sense is obscured by this rendering. The fault is due (as was pointed out by a reviewer in the Times, before quoted) to the true parallelism not being observed. When properly arranged, the first two clauses refer to the Israelites, the last two to their enemies—
Then my lowly ones raised their battle-cry (,ac&Ackey), And my weak ones gave a shout (¢8oqcav, not 2goB/bnoay) 3 And they (the Assyrians) were affrighted,
They lifted up their voice (in fear) and were overthrown
{tt The names of the four cardinal virtues, needlessly altered.
S§ aroya tprere xe nvaidare edrery.—If ‘creeping things’ be substituted for ‘serpents,’ the rendering of this clause in the. AV may perhaps be judged preferable.
\||| The simile has no meaning. The Lat. couples velut taurus with Non te extollas, etc., preceding, and thus makes sense ; but the reading differs widely from the Greek. Mr, Ball (Variorum Apocrypha, in loc.) suggests ‘as by a bull’ ; com- paring, for the construction, the LXX of Is 517 and Jer 5011,
“§| The Vatican MS has éy c/ysmacis ‘on beaches,’ which the Revisers follow. But, as Edersheim pertinently remarks, ‘palms are not supposed to attain any special height by the sea shore’ ; whereas En-gedi of the Amorites, as its other name Hazazon. tamar shows, was noted for its palm trees. The Cod. Sinait., by second-hand, has ev evyaddeo0; the Lat. in Cades; the Arabic ‘at the fountain of Gad.’ Hence the AV is most probably right. Kautzsch (Apok. w. Pseud., 1900) accepts Hngeddi,
VERSIONS (ENGLISH)
AV 1611.
Sir 2427 He maketh the doc- trine of knowledge appear as
RY 1895.
_Sir 2427 That maketh instruc- tion to shine forth as the light.*
the light. Sus 45 a young youth. Sus 45 (the same). t 1 Mac 34 And laid open the 1 Mac 348 and laid... con-
book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.
1 Mac 643 and supposing that the king was upon him,
1 Mac 662 Then the king entered . . . but when he saw - . - he brake, etc.