240 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



iSo then M. Bouriant believed it 2^ossille, that 



(«) sp could govern the connexive n, in nsa; 



{h) that such object could be dissevered from the proclitic sp ; 



(c) that e-pkeow could mean " (receive) m^o thy glory " ; 



{d) that sa here meant 'individual'; 



{e) that sa pent a covlil. \n.ea.n celui que ; 



[or in place of {(I) (e), that the preposition nsa could be 

 used with s p , and that the proclitic could be so used ;] 



(/) that kharize meant 'favoured' a person ; 



{g) that m m f after kharize referred to a person ; 



(7i) that the connexive m in mpeipetwaab put the word 

 into apposition with the word nsa; 



{i) that the initial a u 6 was quite otiose. 

 Here are nine mistakes in one single line of his printed text ! 



To ujiderstand the construction it is necessary («) to realise the 

 meaning of the preposition nsa; to this end, cf . the following 

 passage fi-om a homily given by Mingarelli 129 [^87 of text] : — 



as ce pe pebio quidnam est mel 



nsa psaje mn tesbo nisi Scripturarum 



nnegraphe Sermo et Doctrina ? 



Therefore the phrase as pe p-X nsa p-T, means " what is X 

 other than Y?" ]!^ow the insertion of ke between the article and 

 its noun only adds the meaning 'also', 'even'; cf. the sentence, 

 on [238, lo], 



auo as pe pkemathetes and what is even the disciple 



nsa pentafpoht ebol but one who has shed 



mpefsnof ejin pefran his blood for His name ? 



We express the meaning in English by saying "■what else is x 

 than 3/ ? " " who else is the disciple but the martyr ? " 



(h) IS'ext, we have to ascertain the meaning and construction of 

 the Greek word ■^(a.pit^^Lv in its Coptic form ; cf., 



[246,5] Staf kharize mmof naf, " which He granted to him "; 

 [253, 12] saf-kharize nau mptalco, " He grants them healing ". 



It is therefore certain in our passage that inpeipetwaab is the 

 dative^ and that mmof is the complementary accusative in the 

 relative clause, so that the words penta pnwte kharize mmof 

 mpeipetwaab mean: "that which God has vouchsafed to this 

 saint (ia that He hath made him a soldier in the' heavens) ". 



