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where the very' same phrase, jiii£)Q-k ^a-d^M, is used in speaking of 

 certain " old men. " 



7 : 13. The preposition cj|? ought not to be " emended " from the 

 text. It is characteristic of this writer ; see also vs. 2 of this chapter. 



7 : 15. Instead of n!313 XlJD> " in the midst of its sheath," read 

 riDI IUDj " by reason of this." T^J is a Persian word, meaning " color," 

 then " appearance, fashion," and the like ; used somewhat similarly in 

 Syriac. For traces of its later use (with the pronunciation nj) in Jewish 

 Aramaic, see Dalman, Grammatik'\ pp. 221, 226 f, 239. The common 

 Rabbinical rJ3, " because of," I suppose to be merely a late phonetic 

 variation of the older 7i;i2- Perhaps the pronunciation rJ3 became 

 differentiated from f^ij^ in this particular usage. 



7 : 20. Instead of |3n X^lpl, the original reading must have been 

 simply rOlp, " three horns ;" after which came the principal pause in 

 the verse. The impossible reading of our text is due to the carelessness 

 of a copyist, who got the words from the beginning of vs. 21. 



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