■xbznx.
Xis, 3. riEX-Sept. 67r6<tei' avroXi; Syr. ■,inb XEX.
7. T^X"^!— Sept. eiVe be wpor auToi'T; Syr. "I"2X1
•Onb.
12. Clp'Sn ""3— Sept. tK -roil ^6■Kov ToiiTov; Syr. ]^
X3n x-irx.
XX, 15. ~b "2 ^3 X— Sept. 'AfiifjLt\cx Tw 'A/3pa«/u; Syr.
cmaxb.
XXi, S. pnj£1 — Sept. 'lo-at'iK 6 i;los- auTou ; Syr. X"l2
nripnob.
10. C" (-2.)— Sept. and Syr. omit.
13. iisb— Sept. elf €ivoi Mt7.c.; Syr. X3'1 XrS'b.
14. C'U— Sept. Kai kneimev; Syr. GDI.
33. "12^1— Sept. Kai e<puTevatii 'A/3pac(/.i ; Syr. 2^131
cn-iax.
xxii, 13. "inX— Sept. eh; Syr. in.
16. "TT^n^ ^X — Sept. Tol aYaTTiiToI 6fc- e/ixe; Syr.
iD-a -^in^n-ib.
xxiii, 1-4. 13 — Sept. and Syr. omit.
19. "^32 b"— Sept. o ecr-iv UwevavTi ; Syr. £121.
xxiv, 21. "y::i"in^ -Sept. kui TrapccmiTra ; Syr. xpariwi. 25. cnpiD oa-sept. Ka< TOTToc; Syr. mnx rixi.
31. 1T2X"''!— Sept. Ka. e.Vei- auT<P; Syr. nb H^XT 33. "im 1~:X"''l — Sept. Ka< i'lTTii, xd\mov; Syr.
-i"3X nb "i-i-i^xr
3S. •'3ab— Sept. Tui vlu, fxov Uer^ev; Syr. "J'^ i"iab
pn.
40. nb'JI— Sept. oirot efaTTOiTTeXer; Syr. ^^3 in.
54. "'inS'U — Sept. fK7rtfJi\l/ are fie 'iva anfX^ui; Syr.
bTX -iSI-lTi".
55. n"'nX "I^X^I— Sept. elirav &€ ol ade\<poi auTtic ;
Syr. 'pnx nb "ni^xi.
inX-Sept. Kai |U6Ttt TaDra; Syr. "pT^ni. 60. npm— Sept. 'Pe/JtKKai/ Ti]V u6e\(p)iV avrwv; Syr.
nnnn xpanb. XXV, 5. pnu^b— Sept. 'laat'iK T(j> w(f) auTor/; Syr. pncs nna.
S. "S'il — Sept. Ka£ ffXi'jpfir rijUfpwi/; Syr. S-'Swl
nntr.
Without enlarging our collation, it must be seen at once that the agreement between the Sept, and the Syriac version cannot be mereh' accidental, and the most sceptic must admit that the Sept. has been made use of by the Sj-riac translators. Is this inference cor-
rect, we may go a step farther and say what holds good for the one must also be good for the other; or, in other words, the Syriac translator made use of tlie Sept. for the other books too. And, indeed, Gesenius has pro- duced a number of examples from the book of Isaiah to show that the Sept. was followed even in free and arbi- trarj' interiiretations (comp. his Commentar iiber den Jtsdia, i, 82 sip) ; and. in like manner, Crednor, who has minutely examined the minor prophets in liis I)e Prophelarum Minimi m ]'trsiunis iSyriacie quam Peschi- to vacant Indole, thinks that the Sept. was employed there. A similar result will be achieved in comparing the book of Jeremiah. Thus,
il. 25. aX13— Sept. a^ap.or.Ma. ; Syr. b^nrX: both de- rive it from ;::'iX, instead of from CX'^ (comp. also xviii, 12).
34. nbx brbi'-^D—Sept. i^ri 7ra<r,, api-<'; Syr. n"^nn
"ib'iX bD: both probably reading nbx. iii, 2. '^nnS'3-Sept.Kop<i^„; Syr. X3r3, reading 2';irD. S. nTiT^— Sei)t, KaroiKia; Syr. Xmi-^:.', deriving from a^i:"!. viii, 21. "^nia w'n— Sept. and Syr. omit.
XV, 6. Cnin ''n'Xb3— Sept. Kai oUi-n u>'/;<tu avTO<k;
Syr. "pnb p'nCX Xb a-ri: both reading
OHin for cnrn.
xvii, 16. IlilSX DT'— Sept. h^J.epav a^Spti.^oi.; Syr. X";""' X'r3"im: both reading tr'13X.
xviii, 14. "l^"^U "ll^'O— Sept. aTT6 Trerpa? nixajoi; Syr. "["a X'^nn mO: both reading "^n-J.
xlvili, 2. i"2"iri '"QnTa 05— Sept. Kai TTalaiv-navai-rai: Syr. ■fpncn "iX pm':a "(SX: both regarded "i'CTa not as a proper noxm, but as an Arama- ic intinitive of CST. 1. 21. n'^n lips '^^Z.^C^^ bxi. in theMasoretictext tlie Athnach under llps indicates that it be- longs to "i^'JI"'. The Sept. connects Tips with 2"in, also reading D^in kKbtKriaov /iitixaipa; in like manner the Syr. connects and translates
xnin i-i^s'nnx.
It would be useless to adduce more examples for our supposition, since we do not write a dissertation, but for a cyclopaedia which, so far as the point in question is concerned, has treated that subject in such a full way as neither the introductions to the Old Test, nor cyclopae- dias and dictionaries of the Bible have done before, if they ever touched this point fully.
There is yet another matter which we .should not pass over, and to which, as it seems, little attention has ■been paid. We mean the titles of the Syriac psalms, which are found neither in the Hebrew nor in the editions of the Sept. The titles are partly historical, partly dog- matical, the former speak of David or the Jewish peo- ple, the latter of Christ and his Church. Now the ques- tion arises, if the Syriac translators really perused the Sept., as our supposition is, how is it that the titles found in the Syriac psalms are not to be met with in the Sept.? But the question is easily answered, when we consider the fact that these titles are not only found in the commentary of Eusebius, but also in the Codex Alexandriiiiis. From the latter they were reprinted in Walton's Pdlijf/lof (vol. vi, pt. vi, p. 137 sq.), and again by Grabe, in the fourth volume of his edition of the Sept. A comparison of the titles as found in the Alex. Codex with those in the Peshito shows that the dogmatical part of these titles are a later addition, otherwise we could not account for the omission in the Greek, if real- ly the latter had copied the Peshito. Deducting these additions, the titles otherwise agree with each other. Thus the title of P.sa. ii reads : irpocpt^Ttia iripl Xpt- ffTov Kai KXijtreuj^ i^vuiy; Syr. X-1CXT Xr^lp b;;^