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The Testatments of the Twelve Patriarchs
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Introductory Notice to The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
[151] See Zebulun 10, p. 25, supra.]
VIII.—The Testament of Naphtali Concerning Natural Goodness.
[152] Gen. xxx. 8. Josephus, Ant., i. 19. 7
[154] [Wisdom 11.20; Ecclesiasticus 42.7.]
[155] The Greek text here is obviously corrupt, and doubtless one or two words are wanting. The reading of the Cam. ms. is, οὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν ὅτι ἐν τῷ ἑνὶ τοῖς προσώποις ἢ τῶν ὁμοίων. In the Ox. ms. the passage is wanting.
[156] It seems very doubtful what is meant by κάλαμος here. I have thought it best, therefore, to leave the matter open. The Ox. ms. punctuates στομάχου κάλ.
[157] Cf. Reuben 5 [note 3, p. 10 supra].
[158] [Eccles. iii. 5; 1 Cor. vii. 5.]
IX.—The Testament of Gad Concerning Hatred.
[159] Cf. Targum Ps. Jon. of Gen. xxxvii. 2.
[160] The narrative of Genesis (Gen. 37.28) gives twenty pieces of silver; the LXX. twenty pieces of gold, with which latter agrees Josephus’ μνῶν εἴκοσιν (Antiq., ii. 3. 3). [It is worthy of note that Judas took a meaner price for the “Son of Joseph.”]
[161] For this unusual use of ὀλιγοψυχία, cf. Prov. xiv. 29, LXX., where there is the same contrast with μακροθυμία.
[162] [This passage is cited by Lardner as conspicuously fine.]
[163] [Wis. xi. 16.]
[164] The Ox. ms. omits from here to the last clause of c. 7.
[165] For δολωφωνῆσαι, the reading of the Cam. ms. here, Grabe conjectured δολοφονήσει. Probably δολοφωνήσει is to be preferred.
[166] [The Virgin was the daughter of Judah, but had kinship with Levi. Luke i. 36. Compare Jer. xxxiii. 20-22.]
X.—The Testament of Asher Concerning Two Faces of Vice and Virtue.
[167] [See the Duæ Viæ, vol. vii., p. 377, this series.]
[168] [This section is commended by Dr. Lardner.]
[169] Cf. Lev. xi. 5, 7. [Vol. ii. p. 555 note 6.]
[170] Cf. Levi 5. [P. 13, note 8 supra.]
[171] [Matt. v. 45. This seems contradictory.]
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