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avTTjv. That is not a very intelligible sentence ; but it certainly does 

 not give anything like Prof. Rossi's version: "this precept is fol- 

 lowed by those who stand in high degree " ! This, indeed, is no 

 version of the Coptic, for the word ntootw is the Greek Trapd, " at 

 the hands of", as the words senasine nsa are the equivalent of 

 ^rjTrjO-^a-eTai • besides, the word josenhet means "elevated in 

 heart", "arrogant"; and so the Coptic really means: "this com- 

 mandment shall be required at the hands of those who have become 

 high-minded in it ". 



The Vatican text simply says : ' ' this commandment shall be 

 required at thy hand", ntootk. 



110. The Vatican text he has at times simply translated, when 

 his own text was unmanageable. Thus, at [11 y 26] : 



auo netkslel e pregherai 



nmmau an. eon essi 



esope wn[e]om 



khoris bairetikos ad eecezione perb degli eretici. 



Here his translation is from M. Revillout's text, ngslel nmmau satn 

 nhairetikos ; it certainly does not correspond with his own, which 

 must mean : " (thou shalt be at peace with every one) and not 

 [merely] with those thou art praying with, if there is strength, 

 Xwpis a heretic". 

 111. [12a7]: 



auo ngji ntootf mpekephalaion. Ersan 

 ivon sope n[a]k; mprrkrof &c. 



This he translates : [if a man borrows from thee], " do not take back 

 from him aught but the capital. If that happens to thee, do not act 

 deceitfully before the Lord". 



Now, I do not deny that the words ersan won sope nak, 

 might mean : "if that happens to thee", but it is plain that there 

 would be no relevancy in this rendering ; for where is the " deceit", 

 if a man should simply take back his capital without claiming interest 

 on it? But further, the text says nothing of " aught hut the capital", 

 as he renders it : the words simply mean : ' ' thou shalt take at his 

 hand the capital", and the next words state the condition on which 

 he may ask even that, viz., "if there is aught [of capital] to him'''' . 

 It is clear that nak is wrong, and should be naf, as indeed it is 

 written in the Vatican text. In M. Eevillout's Turin text, there is 

 only (n . . .) which Prof, Rossi has made out to be n[a]k , but it 



