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though he reproves M. Eevillout for reading something else, &c. 

 These minor oSences must be left unscheduled, though it is not 

 without interest to see how the desire to "better" M. Revillout's 

 text seems at times to have distracted Prof. E-ossi's attention from 

 the consideration of his own ; e. gr. 



61. [11/3 7]: 



woeik. ea pkah un pane che la terra 



tauof ebol ha prodotto 



aud eutoc mmof e cotto 



hii Tvhase a stento. 



Here he is careful to say that the words auo eutoc "are wanting 

 in Revillout's transcription", but he is not careful of his own version : 

 " a loaf, which the earth has produced and cooked with effort". The 

 earth had not cooked it, anyhow ; the words are not so vague : they 

 mean, "the earth has brought it forth, and {men) do cook it," eutoc 

 mmof, as plainly as any language could state it. 



62. [14y 16] : 



"As the Saviour said to the apostles ", 



etetntS (sic) ketteutn convertitevi 



ntetnrthe nniseresem e fate come i fancinlli. 



It never apparently occurred to him to look for the words which 

 our Saviour did make use of, and so he rendered "be ye converted, 

 and do as the children", contenting himself with a {sic) after the 

 word tn. But even so, how he extracted an imperative out of the 

 prefix etetn, I cannot imagine. The tn was wrong: it should have 

 been tm, the negative, giving the perfectly regular Coptic word, 

 '■'■if ye ie not converted, and become as little children", Matth. 

 xviii. 3. 



63. And now we get an example of another order of error, which 

 divides the words of the text wrongly [17 y8 15] : 



ektmbolt ebol se tu non sciogli one 



mpanas dal giuramento, 



ntakmort nhetf con cut mi hai legato, 



tieire mmok io ti faccio 



nsmso (sic) straniero 



eptoh mterf affatto al movimento 



nnekhristianos dei Cristiani ^-c. 



" If thou free me not from the oath with which thou hast bound me, 



