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δικαστὴν ἐφ᾽ ἡμᾶς]; 28. μὴ ἀνελεῖν µε σὺ θέλεις, ὃν τρόπον ἀνεῖλες A Ξ 25 2, oe a χθὲς 3 τὸν Αἰγύπτιον;΄ 29.° έφυγε δὲ Μωσῆς ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τούτῳ, καὶ
ἐγένετο πάροικος ἐν τῇ Μαδιὰμ, οὗ ἐγέννησεν υἱούς δύο.
30. Καὶ
3 ~ , a» n~ ~ ~ πληρωθέντων ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα, ὤφθη αὐτῷ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τοῦ ὅρους
1 ημας DE, Chrys., so Meyer, Hiig.; ηµων SABCHP 13, 61, so Tisch., πε
R.V., Weiss, Wendt.
ῶχθες AEHP, Chrys; εχθες NSB*CD 34, so Tisch., W.H., Weiss (Winer-
Schmiedel, p. 54).
3D reads οντως και εφυγαδευσεν Mwvons (και ovtws d), 5ο Hilg.; E reads εφυγα- δευσεν δε Μωυσην; Gig. has fugatus est autem M. ; and Par. effugavit autem se M. Weiss (Codex D, p. 67) inclines to consider φυγαδ. as the original reading (so Zéckler), and to take it trans., understanding ο αδικων as the nom. Φυγαδευω nowhere else in N.T.; in LXX found both trans. and intrans. but gen. the latter; commoner εφυγεν may be corruption of it here; φυγαδεύω frequent in Letters of Pseudo-Heraclitus.
Ver. 28. Cf. Exod. ii. 14.
Ver. 29. ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τούτῳ: Weiss points out that Moses fled on account of this word, because he saw that his people would not protect him against the vengeance of Pharaoh. Jos., Ant., ii., 11, 1, makes the cause of the flight of Moses not the words which told him that his deed was known, but the jealousy of the Egyptians, who represented to the king that he would prove a seditious person. —Ma8.ap: generally taken to mean or to include the peninsula of Sinai (Exod. ii. 15, and iii. 1), and thus agrees with the natural supposition that his flight did not carry Moses far beyond the territory of Egypt (cf. Exod. xviii. 1-27). The name Midianites would be applied to the descendants of Abra- ham’s fourth son by Keturah, who in various clans, some nomadic, some mer- cantile (e.g., those to whom Joseph was sold), may be described as Northern Arabs. (Dr. Sayce, #.s., Ῥ. 270, main- tains that Moses to get beyond Egyptian territory must have travelied further than to the S. peninsula of our modern maps, and places Sinai in the region of Seir, with Midian in its close neighbour- hood.) Amongst one of these tribes Moses found a home in his flight, Hamburger, ‘ Midian,” Real-Encyclo- padie des Fudentums, i., 5, 755. Hac- kett, Acts, p. 104, ‘‘ Midian,” B.D.’. --οὗ ἐγένν., cf. Exod. ii. 22, iv. 20, xviii. 3. Weiss thinks the notice due to a reviser, who wished to show that Moses had given up his people, and made himself a home in a strange land.
Ver. 30. πληρωθέντων, see ver. 23, cf. Exod. vii. 7, “ fulfilled,” R.V. ὤφθη, ver. 2, so the second fundamental τε-
velation of God to Israel took place in ihe wilderness far away from the Pro- mised Land (Weiss), see also ver. 33.— τεσσαράκοντα, cf. 1. 3.--Σινᾶ: there is no contradiction between this and Exod. ili. 1, where the appearance is said to take place in Horeb, for whilst in the N.T. and Josephus Sinai only is named for the place of the law-giving, in the Ο.Τ. the two names are interchanged, cf. also Ecclus. xlviii. 7. According to Hamburger the two names are identical, signifying in a narrower sense only one mountain, the historical mountain of the giving of the law, but in a wider sense given to a whole group of mountains. Thus Hamburger declines to accept the view that Horeb was the name of the whole ridge of mountain-cluster, whilst Sinai specially denotes the mountain of the law-giving, since Horeb is also used for the same event (cf. Exod. iii, 1, xvii. 6, xxxili. 6), Real-Encyclopddie des $uden- tums,i.,7,940. Seealso B.D.?, “ Sinai,” Wendt, edition (1899), in loco; Schaff- Herzog, Encyclopedia, iv., ‘‘ Sinai” (also for literature) ; and Grimm-Thayer, sub ο. According to Sayce, Higher Criticism and the Monuments, p. 263 ff., Sinai is a moun- tain of Seir, rather than of the Sinaitic pen- insula so called. The same writer lays stress upon the fact that Sinai is associ- ated with Seir and Edom, Deut. xxxili. 2, Judg. v. 4,5, and maintains that it is nowhere in the O.T. transported to the Sinaitic peninsula of our modern maps. The word Σινᾶ is an indeclinable noun τό (sc., ὄρος); Josephus τὸ Σιναῖον and τὸ Σιναῖον ὄρος; Grimm-Thayer, Winer- Schmiedel, p. 91, Blass, Gram., 8, 32; and see also Sayce, u. s., p. 268, 269, and Patriarchal Palestine, p. 259, who renders as adjective ‘(the mountain)