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Apocrypha of the New Testament
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
[1646] Hab. iii. 2, according to the LXX. reading, שְׁנַיִם תִיִיס two living creatures, for שָׁנִיִם תַיַיוּ years make alive.
[1648] This shows the extent of the writer’s, or transcriber’s knowledge of Greek.
[1652] One ms. has: When two days were past. Another: On the thirteenth day.
[1654] The siclus aureus, or gold shekel, was worth £1, 16s. 6d.
[1655] One ms. has: Gaspar gave Myrrh, Melchior frankincense, Balthusar gold.
[1657] One ms. has: And when Herod, coming back from Rome the year after, saw.
[1660] One of themss. has: Then Joseph put the blessed virgin and the boy upon a beast, and himself mounted another, and took the road through the hill country and the desert, that he might get safe to Egypt; for they did not want to go by the shore, for fear of being waylaid.
[1663] Or, Sotrina.
[1664] No nation was so given to idolatry, and worshipped such a countless number of monsters, as the Egyptians.—Jerome on Isaiah.
[1665] Cf. 1 Sam. v. 3.
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