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T HE TEXT OF D AND E IN THIS E PISTLE IS SINGULARLY CORRUPT . T HE SCRIBE OF D WAS EVIDENTLY IGNORANT OF L ATIN FORMS AND WORDS (1:4 FACTO , 7 ANGELUS ; 2:10 DICEBAT , PER QUO ; 4:15 HABET ; V . 9 OPERANTIBUS ; 6:5 UIRTUTIS FUTURI SAECULA , 15 PETITUS , 17 INMOBILEM NOBILATIS SUAE ; 7:25 ACCENDENTES , 26 CAELESTIS ; 10:2 PURGARI [ MUNDATI ], 27 HORRIBIS QUIDAM EXECRATIO INDICI , 30 VINDICAS ; 11:5 INVENIEBAMUR , 28 NE QUE SUBASTABAT ; 12:3 PECTORIBUS ; 13:10 HERERE [ EDERE ], 11 ALIUM [ ANIMALIUM ]. H IS DEFICIENCY BECOMES CONSPICUOUSLY MANIFEST BECAUSE HE HAD TO TRANSCRIBE IN THIS BOOK A TEXT WHICH HAD ALREADY BEEN CORRECTED , AND IN MANY CASES HE HAS CONFUSED TOGETHER TWO READINGS SO AS TO PRODUCE AN UNINTELLIGIBLE RESULT ( E . G ., 2:14 SIMILITER ET IPSE PARTICIPES FACTUS EST EORUMDEM PASSIONE UT PER MORTEM MORTEM DESTRUERET QUI IMPERIUM ... 4:2 SED NON FUIT PRODE ILLIS VERBUM AUDITUS ILLOS NON TEMPERATOS FIDEM AUDITORUM ; 12 SCRUTATUR ANIMI ET COGITATIONIS ET COGITATIONIS CORDIS ; 5:11 ET LABORIOSA QUAE INTERPRAETATIO EST ; 6:16 ET OMNIQUE CONTROVERSIA EORUM NOVISSIMUM IN OBSERVATIONEM ; 8:12 MALITIAE EORUM ET PECCATI ILLORUM ET INJUSTIS EORUM ; 9:1 PRIOR EIUS JUSTITIA CONSTITUTIONIS CULTURA ; 10:2 NAM NECESSANSENT OFFERRI . S EE ALSO 2:3, 6; 4:16; 5:7; 6:1, 7, 10; 7:19, 20; 8:3; 9:9; 10:2, 27, 33, 39; 11:6, 31; 12:1, 25).

T HE SCRIBE OF E SEEMS TO HAVE KNOWN A LITTLE L ATIN ( HE WAS IGNORANT OF G REEK ) AND HE HAS CORRECTED RIGHTLY SOME OBVIOUS BLUNDERS (2:12 PRO ( PER ) QUO ; 3:18 INTROITUROS (- RUS ); 5:14 EXERCITATAS (- TUS ); 6:16 ET OMNI ( OM . QUE ); 7:25 ACCEDENTES ( ACCEND -): 26 CAELIS ( CAELESTIS ); 28 JURISJURANDI (- NDO ); 8:7 SECUNDUS INQUIRERETUR (- DAS , - RERE ); 10:33 TALITER ( ET ALITER ) & C .). S OMETIMES HOWEVER HIS CORRECTIONS ARE INADEQUATE ( E . G ., 9:24 APPARUIT PER SE FOR PER SOE ) AND SOMETIMES THEY ARE WRONG ( E . G ., 8:1 SEDET FOR SEDIT ); AND HE HAS LEFT UNTOUCHED THE GRAVEST CORRUPTIONS (4:2, 13; 6:5, 17; 9:1, 8 F . & C .), AND MANY SIMPLE MISTAKES (2:9; 3:10; 5:1; 10:2 & C .). I T IS EVIDENT THAT IN THIS E PISTLE HE HAD NO OTHER TEXT TO GUIDE HIS WORK .

I N SPITE OF THE WRETCHED FORM IN WHICH THE VERSION HAS COME DOWN TO US , IT SHEWS TRACES OF FREEDOM AND VIGOUR , AND IN PARTICULAR IT HAS OFTEN PRESERVED THE ABSOLUTE PARTICIPIAL CONSTRUCTIONS WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE E PISTLE ( E . G ., 1:2 ETIAM FECIT , 3 PURIFICATIONE PECCATORUM FACTA , 14 QUI MITTUNTUR PROPTER POSSESSUROS ... 2:8 SUBJICIENDO AUTEM ... 2:18; 5:7 LACRIMIS OBLATIS ; 6:11 RELICTO IGITUR INITII C HRISTI VERBUM (-0); 10:12 OBLATA HOSTIA , 14 NOS SANCTIFICANS ; 11:31 EXCEPTIS EXPLORATORIBUS ; 12:28 REGNO IMMOBILI SUSCEPTO ).

T HE IMPORTANT H ARLEIAN MS. (B.M. H ARL . 1772) CONTAINS MANY TRACES OF ANOTHER EARLY VERSION , ESPECIALLY IN THE LATER CHAPTERS , AS G RIESBACH ( S YMB . C RIT . 1.327) AND B ENTLEY BEFORE HIM NOTICED . O THER MSS. ALSO CONTAIN NUMEROUS OLD RENDERINGS . A MONG THESE ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING IS B ENTLEY ' S S ( COMP . D ICT . OF B IBLE , V ULGATE , P . 1713), IN THE L IBRARY OF T RINITY C OLLEGE , C AMBRIDGE (B. 10. 5,

SAEC . IX.). This gives in agreement with d and e

Heb. 1:7 ignem urentem.


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