among the Hebrews. Thus 1p21 Jer. xxxi. (Gr. xxxviii.) 12, xai xryjvuv xai '7rpofiuru'j. One of the lxx., or, as the Talmudical treatise respecting the scribes teaches, according to the number of the books of Moses, one of the jive, translators has plainly expressed the passage of Gen. xlvi. 34, epg/rs, civdpeg XTyvorpotpoi h/Mv — (3de\vyfia yap effrtv A/yv<rr!oig nag <Koiih7\v npofidrwv. — pibwv) Vulg. rhedarum. 23*1, lxx., dp^ a, which noun is found also, ch. ix. 9. rfay is rendered by lxx. often, d^a^a. But psdrj is to be found in no writer, who wrote in Greek before John. Nor does the particular object itself appear to have been known to the Greeks : for different nations delight in different forms of vehicles. Neither is rheda , or, according to Isi- dore, reda , a Greek word, as Andreas of Csesareia sufficiently teaches on this passage, explaining pedav , for the sake of the Greeks, by oyrifia^ as Theophylact does xovirrudiavj by <pv\axriv, Matt, xxvii. 65. Nor did rheda sound with less novelty among the Greeks, than that word o^fia would sound in the Latin language. It is owing to this that the Greek copyists wrote in this place psduv with such variations.1 The modern Greek version, a/^ag/a. Many Gallic words prevailed , as rheda, which Cicero uses , says Quintil. 1. i. c. 5 ; but Isidore : the reda is a kind of four-wheeled carriage ; these the ancients called ret ge, because they had rotae [wheels] : 1. xx. 12. The Arabian version, better acquainted with Greek than with Latin, substituted of mules and camels. The word thus introduced into the Latin state, and therefore become Latin, is not without design used in this passage. This stricture indeed attacks Rome, and the luxury which is peculiar to Rome. J erome on Isa. lxvi. : With Gallic wag- gon., and war-chariots , and horses of Cappadocia and Spain ; and carriages of Italy [tiedis italle], etc. On the Hebrews, meant by the use of Hebrew words, comp, note on ch. vii. 4. — xai auparw, xa I -^v^dc d\ lOpurrwv) The Greeks often say cd^ara instead of slaves : Tob. X. 10 (11), ddfiara xai xrfari xai dpyvpiov : and thus LXX., Gen. xxxvi. 6, ‘7ruvru rd cdfjjura rov o’ixov aurou. The same again, Ezek. xxvii. 13, svs fjjffopevovral dot sv dvOpdftuv. In both these passages and
DIN are the words in the Hebrew. dvdpdrruv are used for
carcases , the dead , Num. ix. 6, xix. 11, but also for the living , Lev. xxiv. 17, especially captives or slaves , Num. xxxi. 35, 40, 46. In this passage, where merchants are introduced complaining, the bodies are slaves, used for carrying merchandise or their masters : the souls of men are slaves, in so far as they are in themselves counted as merchandise.
1 Many wrote it puibuv. But ABC ptbuv. — E.