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been published by M. Eevillout (1873), but the edition of the latter 

 scholar was not good enough, according to Prof. Eossi, to make his 

 reprint undesirable : "he would have abstained from reprinting them 

 if he [M. Eevillout] had shown more faithfulness to the original", 

 pref. p. 6. I shall not discuss the relative merits of the two editions, 

 but confine myself to the study of Prof. Eossi's text. 



44. [11a 7]: 



pentaf joos je Quegli che disse : 



nej phaii eroi, aud anok " ffiudica me, ed io 



tinatudbe renderb il contraccamlio''\ 



ntof pentannej e Quegli in cui ponemmo 



penrows terf erof tutta la nostra sollecitudine. 



He who said, ^^ judge me and I will repay" : that is plainly meant 

 us a quotation ; but whence ? It is not in the Bible, and it is not in 

 the Coptic words, which mean, "throw the judgment on me", "leave 

 judgment to me", exactly as in the latter half of his own text we 

 have, " as we have cast our care on him". Where was the logic of his 

 translation ? The passage is of course the verse quoted at Eom. xii. 19 

 and Hebr. x. 30, e/^ot iKScKyjcns (though Deut. xxxii. 35, has iv rjixepa 

 iKSiK-^o-ews,) our familiar words "vengeance is mine". 



45. [13 a 9] : His text is given as follows : 



lin wss (?) nwein neaunoc 

 hm pkake 



The editor is doubtful of his own text, of which he gives this version : 

 una gran luce si fece in mezzo alle tenehre. Now, this version demon- 

 strates that he had no idea of the real construction of the passage. 

 He slioidd have edited : 



hn wssne on a sudden 



aunoc iiwoein a great light 



[sa] hm pkake shone in the darkness. 



One would have thought that hn w ssne was common enough 

 not to be a mystery, and that the missing verb s a must have 

 suggested itself to even a beginner. To make the matter plain, I 

 will quote two passages in exemplication : 



Job i. 19, hn wssne aunoc nhateu ei 



LXX, i^aicfivrj^ TTvevfjLa fxiya iirrjXOcv. 



Zech. xiv. 7, hm pnau nrwhe fnasa nci woein 

 LXX, 7rpo9 iairepav ecrrat </)ciis. 



