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14. K al vi onupa, x.r.X.) onupa in lxx. answers to the Hebrew PP, Jer. xlviii. 32, and denotes the fruits of trees. From those things, which were imported into the city by merchants, there is now a transition to those domestic delights, of which this one species only, 7) ox up a, there held of the greatest value, is expressed. But there afterwards follow two kinds ; rd Xmapd are the rest of the things in the manner of living, which are sources of delight with respect to herself : rd Xafinpd consist in dress and clothing, having an appearance of splendour towards others. Therefore these words have a suitable place here, though some have suspected that they oucdit to be placed after ver. 23. But as the second person is em- ployed in ver. 10, and also follows the third person in ver. 22, so it is here also.
17. Hag 6 Ini rbnov <i rX'euv) I was not right, I think, in disparaging this reading in my Apparatus.1 2 It is supported by the best copies, and denotes indeed a class of men differing from pilots , to whom however it is subjoined, and from sailors , and from all , who trade by sea . Therefore 6 enl ronov nX'euv must be he, who repeat- edly directs his ship to one place, mart, or country. Others read, nag 6 Ini ruv nXoiuv nXeuv ; others, nag Ini ruv nXoiuv 6 o/xiXog. The former reading arose from haste, as it seems ; the latter from a paraphrase of the genuine reading. — %a l oaoi rfa QdXaosav Ipyufyvrai) IpyufyffQai is not only to effect anything by labour , but also, which is the meaning here, to be engaged upon, to have to do with. Thus LXX., IpyaZtedai yr\v^ napadeiffovj d/xnsXuvay noXiv , %pvctov, z.r.X.
18. Tig opoia, what [city is] like) One city above all others in the world was deemed incomparable , viz. Rome. See Pauli Aringhi, Lib. ii. Rom. subterr. c. 1. Rome is spoken of by Martial, as the goddess of the lands and nations , to which nothing is equal, and nothing second : and by Athenseus, as the epitome of the world .
20. 0/ ay ioi, the holy) These are put before the apostles and prophets , either as it were a genus before the species, or as those, some of whom were slain before the apostles and prophets .
2 22. MouoV/twv) of musicians , that is, singers : for these are the chief [part of musicians]. lxx. /xoutr/xo/, Gen, xxxi. 27 ; Ezek.
1 Therefore it is preferred in the margin of Ed. II. and in Yers. Germ. — E. B.
ABCA Vulg. read 6 eni ( rov , B) ronov nXeau. Rec. Text, without good authority, Ini ruv n'Koiuv 6 opitXog. — E.
2 Yer. 21. oinag, thus) This word is a proof that this prophecy is not yet fulfilled. — V. g.
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