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has [214, 4], aikatanta erow, " I have met them ", " three things 

 have hef alien me". The editor could not handle the verb KaravrSv, 

 but had some notion of KaravTiov, '[setting] over against\ and so 

 ' comparison ' ! 



122. On the same page vs^e have, dis-jnoi quelque chose ie ta vie etje 

 te consoler ai ; but the words are [215, 12] ta-solsl, 'that I may he 

 consoled ' ! 



123. Then of. [215, z]: 



me naaak ntok enapostolos. 



This he analysed into me, the categorical negative (!) ; na-aa-k 

 ntok, ' shalt not compare thyself' (!!). The words are quite diffe- 

 rent : it is me naa-k e-n-apostolos, "art thou greater than the 

 apostles?" And this was the very point of the previous clause, lest 

 thou afpear, fcincy thyself^ super excellent. 



Here is his version : pensais-tu que je t'avais oublie ? Non., car 

 [! aAAa eiffj^rt] tu fes montre semllahle a un elu, Mais maintenant je 

 veux te co7ivaincre, et tu ne te compareras plus a mes Apotres. 



124. On [217, 5] we read, ma divinite s'est affid>lee d''un coeur 

 charnel, the Coptic being : ere tamntnwte weh nhet somatikos. 



That is to say : 



weh affullee 



ubet d\m cceur 



somatikos charnel [as an adj. (!)] 



Every word is wrong : weh means ' is dwelling ' ; nhet, 'in me', 

 but he took it to be het, 'heart' ; and the last word is necessarily 

 the adv. crwfxanKU)? ! It is a reminiscence from Coloss. ii. 9, iv avT<2 

 KaroLKel ttolv to TrXrjpwiJLO. Trj<s OeoTrjTOS o-co/xart/cws. 



[These Greek words are often a trouble to him ; cf . cependant il 

 est juste qii'ils te soient rendus dans son royaume. That is not the idea : 

 " (I am perplexed and give it up), but He is sufficient to repay thee 

 them in His kingdom", plen whikanos pe ntoobw nak hn 

 tefmiitero, [240, 3]. Here M. Bouriant has violently made iKavos 

 m.e2ca. juste, has overlooked the ending in i/cavos, and has completely 

 misconceived the function of the connexive n before toobw!] 



Again [217, y] the point is missed in his rendering: il ni'a parle 

 avec insolence et on lui a donne pouvoir contre moi, for what the speaker 

 said was, "he spake haughtily with me saying that power over me had 

 heen given to him''\ 



125. I do not know whether the following version has ever been 

 utilised in any Dictionary of the Bible, as an example of the manners 

 and customs of the Jews, but it sounds strangely enough to suggest a 



