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The Testatments of the Twelve Patriarchs
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Introductory Notice to The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
[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.]
[177] [Dan. i. 15.]
[178] This repetition of a clause seems like the slip of a copyist. The Ox. ms. reads, εἰς τὴν εἱρκτὴν τοῦ Φαραώ
[179] [To this section Lardner takes exception, as unbecoming to the gravity of Joseph.]
[180] Another account is given in the Targ. Ps. Jon. of Gen. xli. 45, “And he gave him to wife Asenath, whom Dinah bare to Shechem: and the wife of Potipherah prince of Tanes brought up.”
[181] This wearing of a linen garment would seem to imply a connection with the priestly tribe. St. Luke (Luke 1.36) indeed calls the Virgin the kinswoman of Elisabeth. On this tendency to associate the old sacerdotal tribe with the new royalty of Messiah, cf., e.g., Protevangel. Jacobi, cc. 6, 7, 9; Augustine, contra Faustum, xxiii. 4; Epiphanius, Hær., lxxviii. 13. [See Reuben, sec. 6, p. 10, supra.]
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