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79. And how does lie come by his rendering of inpf babe rome 

 [180, y] : ^7i'exalte nonplus aucun homine'''i But baberome has a 

 different meaning. Cf. Sapient, v. 8, where tmntbaaberome is 

 used as the equivalent of aXat,ove.La ; or cf. Prov. xxi. 24, where 

 aXa^wv is rendered pbaberome ; so that the words of our text mean, 

 *' be not boastful". 



80. Nor has he entered into the mind of the writer [181, 2] when 

 he gives : la terre est a mon Seigneur, c'est lui qui Va creee, for papj oeis 

 pe pkah mn pefjok ebol, which is a literal rendering of Ps. xxiv. 1, 

 " the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof". 



81. And though the sense is not altered in his renderiag, there is 

 little doubt that the Editor did not understand the construction at 

 [181,6], nftmoi nwoeik, which he has translated qui me donnera 

 (hi pain. 



He was probably thinking of the North Coptic imperative form 

 moi, as in moi nan 'mpaioik 'nseu niben, Trai/Tore 80s 17/^1^ tov 

 aprov TovTov, John vi. 34. But it is no such thing : it is the causative 

 root of worn, 'to eat,' viz. tmmo, 'to cause to eat', 'to feed, 

 nourish ' ; that he may " nourish me with a loaf " ; see also [209, x]. 



82. So again, the grammar is utterly ignored in the following 

 clause, si tu nefais pas le hien dans le temps de trouble . . . ., {tu laisses 

 passer) la lonne occasion donnee a tous de hien faire. He has not the 

 remotest conception of the structure of the passage, which runs thus 

 [181, z], eie pkairos etnanwf sare won nim erpagathon. 

 Here he has to insert tu laisses passer, as not being in the text, and 

 he renders donnee a tous, in order to get some sort of a construction 

 that should enable him to bring in won nim; but his insight was 

 quite at fault, for he has left the subject pkairos without a verb, 

 and ivhat was sare ? 



And it is equally unsatisfactory to find Lieu a permis d tout 

 cela-d^arriver, as ii anai terw sope [182, 4] could possibly be rendered 

 ' d tout cela d'arriver ' ; did he take a[-nai] to be a dative ? 



83. Then again, his very correction shows that he often does not 

 realize the full import of the connective particles ; thus after giving 

 le fils de Vhomme viendra et trouvera la foi sur la terre for the words 

 psere mprome neu nfhe etpistis ejm pkah, he corrects the latter 

 clause into trouvera-t-il ?, because the quotation is found so at Luke 

 xviii. 8. But, unfortunately, this is not the logic of the passage, nor 

 the grammar. The argument was different, viz. "the race of Chris- 

 tians is not extinct, and faith has not disappeared utterly, as the Lord 



