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Apocrypha of the New Testament
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
[2528] Syr., Thinking that there was something of gold within it.
[2529] Syr., of the living God.
[2530] Or, sweep off it.
[2531] Comp. Heb. xi. 38.
[2532] i.e., to sinful matter—ὕλη—the source of the σῶμα in the Gnostic doctrine.
[2533] Comp.Matt. xiii. 41.
[2534] Or, come to God.
[2535] Comp. Rev. xiv. 13.
[2536] Or, bare rule over.
[2537] Isa. xxii. 13; 1 Cor. xv. 32.
[2538] Lit., shut up.
[2541] Comp. Ps. xxiv. 3.
[2542] The hiatus is thus filled up in the Syriac: Yes, not only are their names written, but their works from day to day: the angel their minister brings tidings of their works every day from morning to morning; they are known to God by their hearts and their works. And after they are recorded, if there happen to them a matter of sin or deficiency, it is purified by chastisement according to their sin, that there be not unto them any defect in their strivings.
[2543] Rev. xi. 3-12. Enoch and Elijah were supposed to be the two witnesses there mentioned.
[2544] Or, above.
[2546] Or, the good things.
[2547] Syr., This is the place of the prophets. A very slight change in the Greek text would give this reading.
[2548] Comp.1 Tim. iii. 1-4.
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