Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents

Footnotes

^[3310] The temptation was strong to render ***, “became unleavened” (or, “tasteless”), a sense apparently required by the decided figure employed and by the language of the next couplet, where “insipid ” corresponds to “salt.” The word *** (= ἄζυμον), moreover, if not the Arabic *** (to which Schaaf, though it does not appear on what authority, assigns the meaning “sine fermento massam subegit”), seems to point in the same direction. Dr. Payne Smith, however, is not aware of any instance of the proposed meaning: he says, “My examples make *** = ἐκλείπω, to fail.”—Tr.

^[3311] Or “brought to contempt.”—Tr.

^[3312] Lit. “society.”—Tr.

^[3313] Or “that his voice might cease.”—Tr.

^[3314] Lit. “mooted.”—Tr.

^[3315] Lit. “reached the king in great rage (i.e., so as to cause great rage, *** being often = εἰς denoting result), and, because…, he decreed.”—Dr. Payne Smith.

^[3316] Lit. “openness of countenance.”—Tr.

^[3317] Prop. “agitate questions.”—Tr.

^[3318] Or “deacon.”—Tr.

^[3319] Or “so as to cease.”—Tr.

^[3320] Lit. “he entered into bondage.”—Tr.

^[3321] The equuleus is meant.—Tr.

^[3322] Or “of the sacrifices.”—Tr.

^[3323] Lit. “bitterly.”—Tr.

^[3324] Jer. xvii. 5.—Tr.

^[3325] Lit. “side,” or “party.”—Tr.

^[3326] Lit. “the sacrifices of.”—Tr.

^[3327] Lit. “from him.”—Tr.