[575] 2 Peter i.
[576] Doubtful. The Heb. text gives an inappropriate if not impossible clause, even if ישׁוה be taken from a root שׁוח, to _set_ or _produce_ (Barth, _Etym. Stud._, 66). LXX.: ὁ καρπὸς εὐθηνῶν αὐτῆς (A.Q. αὐτῆς εὐθηνῶν), "her [the vine's] fruit flourishing." Some parallel is required to בקק of the first clause; and it is possible that it may have been from a root שׁוּחַ or שִׁיח, corresponding to Arabic sâḥ, "to wander" in the sense of scattering or being scattered.
[577] After LXX.
[578] Doubtful. Lawsuits?
[579] "Calf," "inhabitants"--so LXX.
[580] LXX. supplies.
[581] See above, p. 263.
[582] Very uncertain. Wellhausen reads _from his idol_, מעצבו.
[583] קצף: compare Arabic qṣf, "to break"; but there is also the assonant Arabic qṣb, "reed." The Rabbis translate _foam_: cf. the other meaning of קצף--outbreak of anger, which suggests _bubble_.
[584] Rosenmüller: _more than in_. These days are evidently not the beginning of the kingship under Saul (so Wellhausen), for with that Hosea has no quarrel, but either the idolatry of Micah (Judg. xvii. 3 ff.), or more probably the crime of Benjamin (Judg. xix. 22).
[585] Obscure; text corrupt, and in next verse uncertain.
[586] For the tense of the verse both participles are surely needed. Wellhausen thinks two redundant.
[587] Deut. xxv. 4; 1 Cor. ix. 9; 1 Tim. v. 18.
[588] LXX.: _fruit of life_.
[589] צדק surely in the sense in which we find it in Isa. xl. ff. LXX.: _the fruits of righteousness shall be yours_.
[590] We shall return to this passage in dealing with Repentance; see p. 345.
[591] So LXX. Wellhausen suspects authenticity of the whole clause.
[592] Wellhausen proposes to read בעריך for בעמיך, but there is no need.
[593] See above, p. 216, _n._ 5.
[594] So LXX.