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accent over the final e of the previous word, thus making complete 

 nonsense of his text, which would mean something like, " I have come 

 to he cast into a vo-qrov fire " ! ! 



25. The logic of the phrase is perpetually at fault, there being 

 hardly a paragraph where some error does not manifest itself ! E. gr. 

 la manifestation de tes paroles a eclaire mon cceur et mon dme, Men queje 

 rHaie supporte que de lien petites souffrances en ton saint nam. Ce rCest 

 pas une grace four moi cV avoir accompli ces choses. 



That is not rightly 'phrased', but " though I have lorne some small 

 pains, it is not a special grace in me to have done so'' [223, 2]. 



Again [223, 4] : 



puisque tu as disperse ton corps et ton sang pour toute la terre, il est 

 utile que mon sang soil repandu pour ton saint nom. 



This version is wrong ; it means, " if thou hast given thy body and 

 blood for the whole world, lohat is the gain of mj shedding my lloodf'' 

 w hoof pe pheu mpasnof . It is, as before, the humility of the 

 martyr, disclaiming any special merits. 



26. One would think that the Coptic words for ' to think' and ' to 

 remember' were distinct enough; but M. Bouriant shows that he has 

 not a clear notion of the great guK fixed between meeue and ari 

 pmeeue ! Twice occurs the quotation : senatako nci neumeeue 

 terw, "all their thoughts shall perish", at [157, 2J and at [176,4] ; 

 and twice has he misrendered it, leur memoire disjjaraUra, leur souvenir 

 sera aneanti, in spite of the o\ StaXoytcrfjiol avrwv of Ps. cxlv. 4. 



27. So one might suppose that the Coptic for ' to go away' and ' to 

 lie down to sleep' could not be confused with each other; but here 

 too M. Bouriant has proved that they can, and that on two occasions. 

 At [162, 9] we have: ngenkotk hii wmton hn amnte, rendered 

 ra-fen paix en enfer; i.e. he took nkotk, which is a common verb 

 meaning, 'to lie down, to sleep', to be the reflexive kot-k, 'to 

 turn thyself, to go away'. And then, just after, he quotes a verse 

 from Job, viz. aunkotk hn wmton hn amnte, [162, 11], also 

 rendered, ils sont alles en paix a V enfer. jS'ow, whatever shadow of 

 excuse there might be in confounding nkotk with kotk, there was 

 none whatever in the second occurrence, where the verb au -nkotk 

 could not conceivably mean ils sont alles ! And why does he say the 

 quotation is from Job xxxvi. 14? It is from xxi. 13, kv Se ava-Kavazi 

 a8ov iKOLfiT^Orjcrav. 



28. This misconception of Coptic words occurs in the most unlikely 

 places ; and the treatment by M. Bouriant of many of the commoner 

 words shows that he has but the vaguest notions respecting them. 



