xxxi. (xxxviii.) 15 : — ®wri ev '?«//,« (Cod. Alex, ev rrt l^r^.r^) yxotiadr) dpqvou xai xXau0/o,oD xai Hhlf/Aov* Pa^»]X aT&x.Xa/o/xsi'jj scr/ ruv viuv auras' xai ovx rjdsXrjse -rrapuxXridqvai, x.r.X. — A voice was heard in JRama (Cod. Al. on higJi) of lamentation and weeping and mourning : Rachel bewailing herself on account of her sons, and would not be comforted, etc. — f,xovffdri, was heard) so that it reached the Lord. Jeremiah both prefixes and subjoins, Thus saith the Lord. — 6pr>vog xai xXaufytog xai odvp/j,bs ToXi)?,1 lamentation and weeping and much mourning) The LXX. have dpr,vov xai xXaufl- pov xai o8vpfj.ov, of weeping, and of lamentation, and of mourning. The original Hebrew, however, is D'HriDD ^2 TI3 — lamentation, weeping of bitternesses, (i.e., lamentation and bitter weeping}. The shorter2 reading of St Matthew, supported by so many versions, viz.,3 xXavdphg xai odvppbs ToXOf, weeping and much mourning, agrees with this so as to express the Hebrew plural B^"1^? bitternesses, by the Greek epithet ToXds, much. I used to suspect that the translators who omitted 6pr,vos xai, lamentation and, had done so from the poverty of their language : but you might, with equal justice, say that the Greek copyists added these words from the LXX., from not duly weighing the force of the adjective croXuc, much, which is not found in the LXX.
The Hebrew wrords4 and accents5 declare the matter more gra dually (rem gradatim magis declarant), and exhibit successively,
1 In his Apparatus Criticus, Bengel writes, in loc. —
" 18 ( — 5privo;x*i) JEth. Arab. Copt. Lat. (et inde Barb. I. vel etiam Cypr. et Colbert, n. 2467), Pers. Syr. ex inopia synonymorum; Hieron. ncscio an Justinus Martyr. Extat non solum apud LXX.. sed etiam in HeLrsco." He then goes on, " Inopia synonymorum laborasse," etc., as in the Gnomon, and concludes by referring the reader to that work. — (I. B.)
2 E. M. has the longer reading. — (I. B.)
3 So BZa5c Vulg. Hilary, 613. D is the only very ancient authority for the S&vos x.a.1 of the Rec. Text. — ED.
4 "Sermo."— (I. B.)
6 " The design of the accents in general is, to show the rhythmical members of the verses in the Old Testament text. But, as such, the use is twofold — viz., a. To show the logical relation of each word to the whole sentence ; b. to mark the tone syllable to each word. In respect to the former, they serve as signs of inter pun ction ; in respect to the latter, as signs of the tone or accent. . . . The use of the accents as signs of interpunctlon is some what complicated, since they serve not merely to separate the members of a sentence, like our period, colon, and comma, but also as marks of connection." — Gescnius, Heb. Gr. sec. 15, q v. — (I. B.)