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especially the evil is not to be restrained, when 1 it swells with deadly poison.
9. ’Ev abT7) — xa/ sv avry, with this itself — and with this itself) A very expressive phrase. — ©so*) God. Kvpiov , Lord2) is the reading of the Alexandrian, Colbertinus 7, and Syriac texts. Baurngarten ac- knowledges the error; for God and Father is a common title, but not Lord and Father; but he adds the ancient Vulgate or Ita lian Version. In the Reutling. M.S. it is so read ; for the copyists frequently use the name of God, and Lord , without distinction ; but the other Latin Manuscripts, with one consent, read God (wherefore many of them also omit the particle ety which immediately follows), and thus Cassio- derusy in his Conplexiones, and more fully in the preface to his Commentary on the Psalms. — xa/' nar'epu) Baurngarten remarks, on the authority of Mill, dz is wanting in the Arabic and AEthiopic Ver- sions.— yeyovorug) The Alexandrian and Colbertinus 7, read yzyznri- pevoug;3 and, in addition, notice that 5s is to be read for xa/'. Mill also reads xa/' : Kuster , ds. The latter also reads yzysvriA^ovg with a single v. — xa0’ 6(j,oiw(Uv @so\jy after the likeness of God) We have lost the like- ness of God : there remains however from that source a nobleness which cannot be destroyed, and this we ought to reverence both in ourselves and in others. Moreover, we have remained men, capable, by the Divine blessing , of being formed again after that likeness, to which the likeness of man ought to be conformed. They who curse, hinder that effect. Absalom has fallen from the favour of his father, but the people still recognise him to be the king’s son.
10. ’Ex rov ai irov erofiarog e^spyssrai svXoy/a xcci xarapa, out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing) Ps. lxii. 4. (Septuagint) ru) ffrof/jan avruv svXoyovvy xa/' rrj xap5/a avruv xa rripuvroy they blessed with their mouthy but in their heart they cursed. — ov %p?i, there is no need) that is, it is by no means becoming. — ruvra ovrco, these things so) these good things, with the evils mixed up with them in such a manner.
11. Tlrryriy a fountain) The heart resembles this. — o-rJjg, an aper- ture) the mouth resembles this.
12. M?) dvvuraiy is it possible ?) He now prepares a transition from the mouth to the heart. He had said with regard to the former, There is no need [it is not becoming] ; he says respecting the latter,
1 So Beng. seems to take psaryj, when it is full , etc.— E.
2 ABC Vulg. Syr. Memph. read K vpiov. Rec. Text reads 6zov with MSS. of Vulg. and later Syr., but no other very old authority. — E.
8 But BC read ytyovoroig. — E.
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