44 The Rev. J. Hamilton on the Punic Passage in Plautus, 



^yg, our Punic phi, as synonymous with niyy ; and the Arabic* version fre- 

 quently substitutes the former (Hanno's word) as the equivalent of the latter. 

 In placing the Punic and Hebrew in juxta-position, we shall do the same, put- 

 ting for n»5n5 any and a^yj and for nu;y. bVi^- 



Thus in the two passages of Scripture most deserving our attention as eluci- 

 dating the Punic — Ezekiel, xxviii. 4. " With thy wisdom, thou hast gotten thee 

 riches." Deuteronomy, viii. 18, &c. " He hath given thee power to get wealth," 

 we substitute for the first of the following readings the latter : 



■jiys"? |riD ns and '7>n "jj^D aii?n— ntyy"? n^ ]nD and ^^n ntyy ncr^n^- 



To say nothing of yss, u^u/'i, applied in Job and elsewhere exclusively to 

 persons of Antidamas' age, let the Hebraist glance at those two passages and at 

 the Punic together, and he will perceive that with very slight alteration the sub- 

 stance and language of those two passages, along with the Hebrew expressions, 

 for which there is equivalent Latin, as already noticed, make up altogether 

 Hanno's verse, and that, if we may so speak, Ezekiel, Moses, and the author of 

 the Proverbs, when speaking of money-making, shrewdness, diligence, and suc- 

 cess in the pursuit, — in short on Hanno's subjects, speak in Hanno's language 

 and phraseology : and that — by wisdom to get wealth — 'j'TI ^^D IID''iy3> '■'■hjrim 

 phil chil" power given to get wealth ; ^\x^ 'Ji^D'? ?n3 liS, co' ntn Iphul chil, 

 are phrases common to the Syrophojnician Gentile and the inspired Jew. 



Nor will it be considering the words too curiously to remark, respecting 

 the phrase, by his shrewdness or wisdom, the rare fitness of its collocation be- 

 tween the two expressions conveying the ideas of lengthened years on the one 

 hand, and accumulated riches on the other; connecting prudence with wealth 

 as its effect, and with lengthened years as its cause.f On this subject it will 

 be recollected in passing, as noticed by a late Most Reverend and eminent 

 Orientalist in his remarks on Job,J respecting the word \i}\u*^, that Chappelow 

 well hit off its meaning as not merely implying age, but the wisdom which 

 should accompany it. Little, probably, did the author of that criticism surmise, 

 that it would find its strongest sustentation — quo minime reris — from this 

 Punic passage and the Libyan version of it rightly understood. 



* Psalm, vii. 4. and xv. 5. f •n'a^n D''tC''tt?''3, Job, xii. 12. 



J Magee on the Atonement, Note. 



