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xi, 24 ; Tobi, xiii. 16 ; Ps. 1. 20 ; Jer. 1. 15 ; Ezek. xxvii. 11 ; whereas 

 Toixos is t - j , cf . 1 Reg. xviii. 1 1 ; Job xxxiii. 24 ; Ps. Ixi. 4 ; Isai. 

 lix. 10 ; Ezek. xxiii. 14 ; xl. 13 ; xli. 5 [= ^pay/xo's, Ps. Ixxx. 14; 

 Eccl. X. 8]. "What the writer said was that "the cross was the 

 fortified, strengthened city-wall". 



42. Here it is the Greek language that mystifies him : 



a fiag^g^elos P angelo 



wonh naf ebol apparve a lui 



afkata tortw naf e lo esaudi 



mpefaitema nella sua domanda. 



And he gives a long note as follows : "I translated the group 

 afkatatorthw naf according to the sense, by he heard him, not 

 knowing any Greek verbal root to which this can be referred, &c." 

 Then he suggests that it should be afkharize kata torthw naf, 

 "he gratified him according to justice''\ though the Greek verbal 

 root katorthw (KaTopOoo)) was appealing to him for acceptance, [a 

 common LXX word, usually rendered by the Coptic sowtn] : "the 

 angel accomplished for him his atTrj/jLa". 



43. The last of his mistakes that I shall refer to in this Exegesis, 

 is not the least curious [83 ^ 2] : 



psdter jo mmos dice il Salvatore 



je pig^enos questa nazione 



meuesnojf ebol non pub salvarsi 



eimete hmpeslel ■ che nella preghiera 



mn tnestia e nel digiuno. 



On this we have an electric light flashed by his note: "the literal 

 translation of this passage would be, this nation cannot cast itself save 

 into prayer and fasting ^^ [I'] Here are his own words, questa nazione 

 non pub gettarsi che nella preghiera e nel digiuno. And this in spite 

 of ebol, (cast) "om^". The Coptic words can mean nothing but, 

 "this yevo9, they are not wont to be able to cast it out, save by 

 prayer and fasting", tovto to yeVos ev oiSevl Swarat i$iX$€iv, el //.r] 

 iv Trpocrcvxj] '^^^^ vijcrreia, Mk. ix. 29, (Matt. xvii. 21, ovk e/CTropeuerat). 



III. 



The second Fasciculus (1884) contains matter referring to the 

 Council of Mcsea, a portion of the life of St. Athanasius, and some 

 fragments. A portion of the matter printed here by Prof. Eossi had 



