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in the text? As he has edited it, the passage is absolutely without 

 meaning of any kind ! I will emend it : 



Not, nas S-he niprdiue 

 but, na-s-nehin pronie. 



i.e.notn-as, "in what", n-he, 'of manner', but n a, "will", s, "be 

 able", nehm, "to save". And so the words assume grammatical form 

 and logical coherence : mn nwb &c. then being the subject of the 

 clause, which means, shall not he able to save man. 



3. Fancy a pagan king addressing a young Christian martyr as 

 follows [174, 5] : 



Quel Dieu veux-tu que fader e ? Est-ce que le Dieu que nous adorons 

 tous les jours n'a pas souffert f Ne nous a-t-il pas reellement recom- 

 mande d'' adorer des dieux nouveaux ? Sache Men ceci, c^est que Notre- 

 8eigneur Jesus-Christ a ete, est et sera eternellement ; c' est pourquoi ne 

 7ne dis plus qu'un homme ne pent avoir plusieurs dieux, car si Pun d^eux 

 passe d Vetranger, les autres veillent a sa place. 



I commend that clause to M. Bouriant's serious consideration, and 

 cannot help feeling that a strong temptation to sleepiness must have 

 overcome him at this particular ' psychological moment ' ! 



(«) The first clause is wrong : 



me 5ta pnwte (^tj) has the God 



eusmse naf miueiie whom we serve daily 



hise become wearied ? 



It is the old blunder of equating jx-q with ne-pas [see IS'o. 36] ; and 

 the error of rendering hise here wrongly. 



(i) The second clause is wrong : 



e ntafosk tonw or has he become worn out utterly, 



je ennawost that we should worship 



nhnnwte nbrre new gods ? 



The editor has elaborated a new meaning out of the root osk, which 

 he renders ' to recommend '; so that it will not be amiss to equate this 

 word with the Greek of the LXX ; cf , 



South C. North C. 



Ps. xlviii. 15, . TraXaLOiOrjcreTai, . na-6sk, . es-er-apas. 

 Ps. vi. 7, . . . €Tra\aL(x)6r]v, . ai-6sk, . ai-er-apas. 



Of course there are other words to render TraXatow, such as hite, 

 r-plce &c., but there can be no doubt of the use of osk, cf. Levit. 

 xiii. 10, wsobh efnaosk pe hm psaar mpefsoma, Xeirpa iraXaLov/xevrj 

 €<ttIv iv Tto Sep/xaTi tov ;!^pa)ros. 



