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104. The Greek text in fact occasionally helps him to go astray, 

 so that I am inclined to think that his use of Lightfoot's name is no 

 guarantee that he thought it worth while to keep by his side the 

 learned prelate's book. The following will illustrate this [60/3 4] : 



anon de autinonios nan a noi e fatta legge 



etmka neipharmag'os di ?2on pi-endere farmaci 



. eonh per la vita 



e refmwte o da incantatori, o &c. 



One can fancy the horror of Bp. Lightfoot at reading such a trans- 

 lation : "it is made a law to us not to take medtcities for (our) life 

 either from incantators or from diviners"! The text says nothing 

 of the sort; it says : "not to alloiv cjiapfxaKOi to live^\ exactly as the 

 Greek has : 



r]/juv Se vevojXoOiryjTaL (papp.aKOV'S jxrj lav l,rjv. 



Did Prof. Eossi think ^apyu,a/<os was the same as (jidpixaKov ? 



105. The editor continues with his ignorance of Coptic verb- 

 government, just as in the fii'st Fasciculus, At [61 y 4] we have : 



nfnat"heu laau an a nulla riesce, 



eimetei etreuhe erof ma cade per avere 



efmise mn pnwte comhattuto contro Dio. 



It is the old bliinder of rendering he, "to fall", whereas it is he "to 

 find", and the words mean : "he will gain nothing except to let 

 them (folk) find him [= to be found] fighting with God ", owSev ttXIov 

 avT<2 v7rd.p^€L rj to Oeo/xd^ov elrat". 



106. At [62 a 25] is an omission: "heresy is a fantasy, a heart 

 which errs, paying worship to its own thoughts", 



nwhob an ad una cosa die non 



efmpsa nt[a]ei[of ] i degna d'essere onorata, 



iithe nthairesis come Veresia 



nswtm[. . . .]r6s 



nnepikwrios degli epicurei. 



Here he has put the negative wrong in the first line : "to its own 

 thoughts alone, not to a thing worthy «S:c." ; and in the second clause 

 he has entirely omitted the fourth line, which was adjectival to 

 "heresy", viz. swtmros "worthy to shut its mouth", " the heresy 

 whose mouth should be shut". 



