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Apocrypha of the New Testament
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
[1555] Susanna i. 4.
[1556] The readings vary, and the sense is doubtful. Thilo thinks that the sense is: What I offer over and above what the law requires is for the benefit of the whole people; but the offering I make for my own forgiveness (according to the law’s requirements) shall be to the Lord, that He may be rendered merciful to me.
[1557] The Church of Rome appoints March 20 as the Feast of St. Joachim. His liberality is commemorated in prayers, and the lessons to be read are Wisdom 31; Matt. 1.
[1558] 1 Sam. i. 6-7; Hos. ix. 14.
[1559] Another reading is: In his last days.
[1560] Another reading is: Into the hill-country.
[1561] Moses: Ex. xxiv. 18, xxxiv. 28; Deut. ix. 9. Elijah: 1 Kings xix. 8. Christ: Matt. iv. 2.
[1562] The 26th day of July is the Feast of St. Anna in the Church of Rome.
[1563] Other forms of the name are Juth, Juthin.
[1564] Some mss. have: For I am thy maid-servant, and thou hast a regal appearance.
[1565] Severalmss. insert: Thou hast not listened to my voice; for.
[1566] Comp. 1 Sam. i. 9-18.
[1567] Tobit ii. 10.
[1568] Many of themss. here add: Alas! to what have I been likened? I am not like the waves of the sea, because even the waves of the sea, in calm and storm, and the fishes in them, bless Thee, O Lord.
[1570] One of themss.: With his shepherds, and sheep, and goats, and oxen.
[1571] Ex. xxviii. 36-38. For traditions about the petalon, see Euseb., H. E., ii. 23, iii. 31, v. 24; Epiph., Hær., 78.
[1572] Various readings are: Sixth, seventh, eighth.
[1573] One of the MSS inserts: On the eighth day.
[1574] One of themss. has nine.
[1575] This is the reading of most mss.; but it is difficult to see any sense in it. One ms. reads: They attended on her. Fabricius proposed: They bathed her.
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