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'■'■ they have never ascended iipon the heart of men", Spwale ehrai 

 ehrai ejm phet nnrome, koI IttI Kaphiav avOpw-rrov ovk avi^r], 

 1 Cor. ii. 9 ; cf. the same error [245, 5 ; 248, 3]. 



128. I do not see what meaning M. Bouriant intends to convey in 

 the last clause of this passage, on ii'a pas coutume de louer le Idboureur 

 quand iljette son grain d la terre et le laisse Id sim/plement, mais quand, 

 apres I' avoir convert d^un fumier suffisant, il le serre parmi ses tresors. 

 The Coptic says, [222, 9], nsafapolaue mmof hn nef agathon, 

 "he enjoys Mmse//" with his goods". "What did the Editor think the 

 Greek word diroXaveLv could mean? And whence has he the adj. 

 sujisant? The words are: ensantsof nsetimehro naf, "when 

 they water it and give dung to it ". It seems hardly credihle, hut he 

 must have thought that tso, 'to water', was identical with tsio, 

 ' to satisfy ' ! 



Here is another Greek word shorn of its natural rights, " le 

 hasard votdut que S. vint . . ., et qu'on lui prese^itdt Victor; hut the 

 text says, [224,5] ^^o audiahale inmof naf, "and so ihej slan- 

 dered him to him". Was hiafiaXk^iv rivh. irpo'; tlvu such an utterly 

 unknown expression ? 



Why does he render mef jiho [224, z], " it accepts not the person 

 of", by elle n' attend point ? So again, his version of [225, 3] elle n'a 

 pitie ni du petit enfant ni de la jeunesse, is quite wrong ; it should be, 

 " death pities not a little one on account o/his youth ". 



At [225, 5] aiijourdliui nous mangeons et nous nous usons des hiens 

 de la terre, is incorrect; for mmene does not mean 'to-day', but 

 'daily'; and the verb Trepto-Traw is inadequately represented by s'user 

 de, in any legitimate use of this phrase. This ' Ecclesiastes ' word 

 was so thoroughly unmanageable to the Egyptian, that he is obliged to 

 lender it by itself; thus he always has 7reptcr7rao-/Aos, Eccl. 1, 13; 

 ii. 23, 26 ; iii. 10 ; iv. 8 ; v. 13 ; viii. 16 ; and the verb is used iii. 

 10; V. 19. Only in i. 13 has he attempted an Egyptian rendering, 

 TreptcTTracr/xov irovrjpbv eSoKev o ©eos TOis viol's twv avOpwTroiv tov 

 TrepiaTraaOai iv avria, wperispasmos mponeron apnwte taaf 

 nnseere iinrome etreuji hrau nhetf hn whedone ; a ver- 

 sion in which the periphrasis ji-hrau hn whedone shows clearly 

 in what sense the Copt took the word, "to amuse themselves with 

 ri^ovrj'\ The Greek word occurs once in N. Test., Luke x. 40, where 

 it has the same rendering ji-hrau ; but there is no doubt that this 

 Coptic word involved the idea of ' play, sport ', for we have it in Habak. 

 i. 10 for Traiyvia; but also Ps. Ixviii. 12 Kar' e/xoC rjSoXecrxovv, 

 neujinhraau hioot; [cf. also Ps. Ixxvi. 4, 7, 13; Lam. iii. 20^ 



