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impossible phrase Sftohm nnenhetlmos, [202, 7]. What in the 

 "world is the prefix nnen? Besides, t ohm means 'to invite': it is 

 an old error, a wrong division, for toh mn nhethnos. 



109, I fear he has not wholly succeeded in his account of the Bel 

 and Dragon story, for at [203, 8,] where the text says, afhotb nneto 

 nhmhal naf etbe worn hi so, it will not bear the meaning 

 he has imposed, [il tua\ les serviteurs qui leur servaient a loire et 

 a manger ; for the etbe denotes the interested motives of their 

 attendance on the idol, and not the definite function they had to 

 perform. 



And when he renders, just after, puis il tua le dragon venere par 

 le roi, one would like to know how he compassed venere, when the text 

 says, pedrakon ere prro synenei ninmaf. "WTiat is synenei, 

 then? The preposition following, nmmaf, ' loith him', shows that 

 it probably is for ko lu wv e l. 



110, And Sirach's son would certainly not be content with the ver- 

 sion, llalheur a vous qui avez perdu patience. Si Dieu exauce vos prieres, 

 que ferez-vous ? Now he gives a reference here to Eeclesiasticus ii. 16, 17, 

 so that it may be instructive to quote the Yulgate here, et quid facient, 

 cum inspicere coeperit Dominus. I infer that his reference to verses 

 16, 17 shows that it was the Latin in which he sought his quotations 

 — certainly a bad source for Coptic parallels, — for the LXX is ii. 14, 

 oval vfuv TOis aTToXcoAeKocrt rrjv vTTOjxovrjv, /cat ri Troc-^crere orav eTrtcTKeTr- 

 TTjTaL 6 Kvpio? ; and what are the Coptic words ? An exactly literal 

 version, of course, ersan pjoeis cm petnsine etetnnaf w! Why, 

 this verb cm-psine is just the very expression for eTrto-KeTrro/xat and 

 that order of ideas; he may compare Job ii. 11; vi. 14 ; xxxiv. 9; 

 Isai. xxix. 6 ; Jerem. ix. 9 ; xiii. 21. 



But to render it, si Bieu exauce vos prieres ! 



Another quotation is misrendered at [204, 13], auji sipe je 

 apnwte sosf w , ils seront honteux de V ignominie que Bieu leur infligera, 

 Ps. Hi. 6, KaTYjcr^vvOyjcrav on o ©eo? i^ovSevaocrev avrov?. 



111, Here we have a mistake of his repeated, with additions, 

 tliough this time he prints it in italics to show that it is a quotation ! 

 The Coptic says, wusipe esafjpo pnobe wnsipe on ef eow hi 

 hmot nhetf , i.e. "there is a shame which doth engender sin, there 

 is a shame on the other hand in which thei'e is glory with honour". 

 Instead of this, M. Bouriant writes, c'est la honte qui engendre le peehe, 

 c^est une honte aussi d'en tirer gloire et faveur [!] He took it to be e-f 

 'to make', eow 'gloiy', nhetf 'from it'; but it should be ere, the 

 present participial regent, and has nothing to do with the verb f , 'to 



