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The Testatments of the Twelve Patriarchs
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Introductory Notice to The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
[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.]
[172] The Ox. ms. adds, ἐν τῇ εὐφροσύνῃ ἡ μέθη, ἐν τῷ γέλωτι τὸ πένθος, ἐν τῷ γάμῳ ἡ ἀκρασία. [Ecclesiasticus 42.24.]
[173] [The Hebrew triad, father, son, and proceeding.]
XI.—The Testament of Joseph Concerning Sobriety.
[174] The Greek spelling here is Φωτιμάρ, in the later chapters Πετεφρίς (Πεντεφρῆς, Cd. Oxon.). The former is more like the Hebrew, the latter really the LXX. spelling, Πετεφρῆς. We may perhaps see herein a trace of a double authorship in the Test. Joseph.
[175] Cf. Gen. xxxix. 1, LXX., and Josephus (Antiq., ii. 4. 1), who calls Potiphar μαγείρων ὁ βασιλεύς. The view of the Eng. ver. is most probably correct, though we find טבָּח used in the sense of cook in 1 Sam. ix. 23.
[176] [Matt. vi. 6. He veils the quotation by a fiction, as to authorship, to support the plan of his work.]
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