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from all the restraints of Coptic grammar ; of this we have a good 

 example at [61 y foot] : " why were ye Pharisees not grieved at 

 Manasses", 



bmpnau quajido 



ntaftreuweise* fece che si allontanassero 



nesaias dal profeta Isaia. 



One naturally asks what so great cause of grief was it, that 

 Manasses should have caused them to he removed to a distance from 

 Isaiah ? And then one asks, whence comes this translation ? In 

 this wise : wei , "to remove to a distance", and - se , a suffix pron. 

 of third plural. Now, I know quite well that hesides the normal 

 Coptic suffix -w, we have both - sw, (cf. ani-sw, Gen. viii. 17), 

 and at times -se (though I have met it only after tennow, and 

 jow, "to send", cf. Isai. xxvii. 8 ; Jer. xiv. 14, 16 ; xxxiii. 5 ; xliv. 

 4 ; Matth. xx. 2 ; xxi. 3) ; but it would be a mere waste of time to 

 search for instances of its use after wei, in this clause, because — it 

 is not wei at all! It is the verb weise, "to saw asunder"; the 

 deed of Manasses was that he had caused Isaiah to be sawn asunder, 

 for which statement Prof. Rossi may consult the Eabbinical legend 

 given in Lagarde's Prophetae Chald., p. xxxiii. 



154. The verb lo is again misunderstood at 62y 1 : 

 easlo avendo lasciato 

 esswo che si esiccasse 

 5ci tpege mpesnof la fonte del sangue. 



Prom this it appears that he took swo in the meaning "to be 

 dried up", esiccare, and the verb, lo to Taenn '■^ she had leff'' \ In 

 reality the words mean : " the fountain of blood had ceased flowing ". 

 The verb lo , followed by a present participle, means to cease doing, 

 here to cease fioiving [cf . 1 Reg. ix. 5 ; xxviii. 20 ; xxx. 4 ; Jonah 

 i. 11]. 



155. I can form no idea of the source of his translation of the 

 word he has invented at [63 /3 17], when he edits : 6 teita[h]s 

 etmeh nata[xia] mn peinomos etmeh mparanomia, rendering 

 "oh! questa nazione plena di disordine, e questa legge piena di 

 iniquita". "WTao does not see that the words were 



Ta^ts filled with dra^ta, and 



vo/xos TrapavofjiLa. 



There is no mention of any nation, nor could his emendation tabs 

 mean anything else than " anointing " ! 



