474 A KAZEM-BEG, 
« The king Gkubäd intended to construct the wall. It was written # in the Old Testament / 
that Iskanderi-dul-gkernain had, by the répeated directions of Djebräil, erected a:iwall in a 
certain place;-that same place they dus, and there appeared the old rampart. The ancient 
wall, in consequence of the great length of time, having been covered up|with sand and 
earth, Gkubäd ordered a great army to be sent that for the time repaired, the defects of 
the wall», ac. ‘ 
Though mention is here made of Gabriel, yet the difference of the sense between this and 
Klaproth's translation is such, that I am in difficulty whether to :attribute it to a real differ- 
ence in the version of Berlin or to an error in the translation. Bayer’s extract in, this place 
however agrees more with Klaproth's translation. It is there said that Gkubäd in a dream 
was informed by an Angel of the place of the wall of Alexander. See De Muro Caucaseo in 
comment. Acad. Scient. T. I p. #59. 
Remark 9. page 459 line 7 and 24. as) pl «$) ED 
In the Berlin MS. the time specified is 7 years, which is more probable. In the Peters- 
burg version nothing is said about the time. Bayers extract asserts that they finished the eastern 
part of the wall during the rest of the year, and that the other parts were terminated in the 
space of seven years. Jbid. 
Rermark 10. page 459 line 7 and 25. DJ #3} ©b 
The Gate of gates, or the principal gate. The derivation of this epithet is founded 
upon historical records, purporting that in ancient times difficult passes between two mountains; 
or between mountains and the sea, were metaphorically called gates er) ?)) (pylae). The- number 
of these gates in the Caucasus was consistent with the number of the passes. To these belong. 
Fr) ob -olé J'hsebeeli OL) œb- Je ob” ac, on which we shall have occasion to 
say something in. the appendix. But the place where Derbend is situated; being the strongest 
and most remarkable of all, and its ramparts the largest and most inaccessible , it was called, for 
distinction, by the epithet of the gate of gates. — The same is known by the name of pB3 
(in: Turk.) and Hd) ob (in Arab.); both of which mean the iron gate: for tradition says, 
as we read it in the text, that the gates of the ramparts were made of iron. The common 
- Æ In°the copy Sent to me-by my learned friend Dr. Dorn, there are two readings Diet and 
A) cri, neither of which . has any meaning. L think the word must be either «A Qi or 
sh) Qi) , which signifies: & has taken place or come down from heaven: i. e. written by the com- 
mand of God &c. : KE: ES s . , Æ 
1'‘The word % Jp, in Hebrew or or te Cote À strictly speaking, means thePentateuch: but inits. 
T = : : 
full import it may be taken for the whole of the Old Testament. 
m For ” ge Soul or the Tzour of Procopius (Gothicae historine"Kb. IV) see” our appendix Je CL 
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