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pentafsf whoseb ejof, "who s^r^;^cAe<?aline upon it", 6 cTrayaywi/ 

 a-irapTLov ; Prov. xxix. 5 efnasorf enefwerete mmin mmof, "he 

 spreads it (the net) for his own feet", TrepifSdXXeL avro ; 2 E,eg. vi. 19 

 Ste/xcjOtcre ; Ps. xxvi. 3 TrapaTd^rjTat &c. 



His mistake arose from his utter misconception of the function 

 of the n after ebol, — the mystery of the connexive particle after the 

 absolute form sor . 



71. Probably the Professors of natural history will be interested 

 in the following piece of information furnished by the translation of 

 the text at [71 a z], in speaking of the camel, viz. : 



fsatb Steftrophe sceglie il suo nutrimenfo 



nthe Hntbnowe terw come tutti gli animali 



etwaab pu7-i. 



"The camel selects its nourishment like all pure animals"! Here 

 the verb is satb, which I suppose the editor to have taken to be a 

 form of sotp, "to choose": what form, I cannot imagine. But as 

 there is a verb satbe, "to chew the end," it does not need to be 

 argued that this was what the Copt intended, cf. Lev. xi. 3 ; Deut. 

 siv. 6. 



72. The whole of this page, 107, is very badly done. There are, 

 indeed, a few lacunae in the papyrus, but the translation is much worse 

 than the state of the original justifies or makes pardonable. He begins 

 the next clause thus [71yS 8] : Le privazioni adunque, die il prof eta 

 Giovanni si impose, furono fatte per iimore delV appoggio dei demom'., 

 die distrugge la puritd. In order to get this he has to read: nfoce 

 wn nta I. ta. . .u hioof, rendered "the privations which he im- 

 posed upon himself". But the text says nothing whatever of foce, 

 "privations", for 1°, foce does not mean "privations", and 2°, it is 

 not foce ! The writer was talking of John's camel-hair garments, 

 and the nf 6 was the dependent genitive on the hbso of the preceding 

 lacuna, "a garment of hair'% the ce being a particle (= S77, ert, 

 roiwv &c.), which immediately follows ; so that the words meant, 

 " the hair garments which Zohnpxd 071 him, taau hioof. 



73. The next words are quite wrong also, for the text has ausope 

 ouhote mpestereoma nndaimon, cannot mean " they were made 

 through fear of the support of the demons", but " they became a terror 

 of the cTT€piu>ixa of the demons ". And the words following in the 



