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no indication whatever of anything being omitted ! The omitted 

 lines mean : "in the firm IrjTrjixaTa and the Xoyoi -which are in the 

 treasure of thy heart, on account of the wound the Arians have 

 wounded us with". 



54. And surely an omission like the following should not have 

 occurred! In the confession of Faith made by Athanasius to the 

 King we have a series of propositions, winding up with this general 

 statement : 



come il piu grande 



di tutti questi capi 



noi confessiamo 



i quattro evangelii, 



a cui attingono (lett. hevotio) 



tutti i Cristiani. 



pnoc ukephalaion 



enai terw 



tnhoniolog'ei ininof 



ete peftow nenag'g'eliou ne 



etere iiekhreistianos terow 



so nhetw 



aud psali paulos 



plas mpestinwfe 



m5 nepistolo^ve 



nkatholikou 



And no notice whatever is taken that the Canon here mentioned 

 in the Coptic includes the words, " and the writer Paul, the tongue 

 of sweet savour, and the Catholic Epistles". 



55. And the paragraph, as given in his version, winds up with 

 the following ridiculous misconception as to the possibilities of Coptic 

 structure [29,12] : 



esope ce o prro 

 nikephalaion ntaijoTV 

 ses^vtun iiahrak 

 ei^ow 

 anine epiina 

 nnensbr nepiskopos 

 nta!s«x6riz;e mmoir 



se dunque, o re, 



questi capi che io dissi, 



sono retti al tuo cospetto, 



io diro : 



vieni insieme 



co' miei eompagni vescovi 



die hai esigliato. 



I^ow, I call attention to this passage, in which he has edited 

 three words in juxtaposition, eveiy one of which he has completely 

 misunderstood ! To begin with, where is the force of such an argu- 

 ment as this : "if these propositions are right in thy sight, / shall 

 say, ^ come along with my fellow-bishops whom thou hast exiled'"? 

 No such thing; eiejow does not mean "I shall say", and does not 

 refer to the word "say" at all! It means, "well then, do thou 

 send"; eie is a particle introducing the apodosis, and jow is an 



