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The Testatments of the Twelve Patriarchs
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Introductory Notice to The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
[45] [Gen. vi. 4; Revised margin, 1 Cor. xi. 10; Jude 6, 7.]
[46] [See Lardner on this root idea of our author, vol. ii. p. 353; but he is wrong as to Levi and Mary. Also Joseph, sec. 19, note 2, infra.]
[47] The reading of Cd. Oxon., μετ᾽ αὐτόν, is doubtless to be preferred.
[48] i.e., Machpelah, which in Hebrew means double, and is so rendered by the LXX., e.g., Gen. xxiii. 9.
II.—The Testament of Simeon Concerning Envy.
[50] That Simeon was prominent in the hostility to Joseph, is perhaps implied by his detention in Egypt as a surety for the return of the others; and Jewish tradition generally accords with this view. Cf. the Targum of the Pseudo-Jonathan on Gen. xxxvii. 19: “Simeon and Levi, who were brothers in counsel, said one to another, Let us kill him.” Also this same Targum on Gen. xlii. 24: “And he took from them Simeon, who had counselled to kill him.” Cf. also Breshith Rabba, § 91.
[51] [Gen. xxxvii. 22, 29; xlii. 22.]
[52] [See Speaker’s Com., N.T., vol. iv. p. 387, ed. Scribners.]
[53] The Cam. ms. seems wrongly to omit the negative here. The reference is doubtless to Gen. xlix. 7.
[54] The reference seems to be to the Philistines. Cf. Deut. ii. 23; Amos ix. 7, where the LXX. reads Καππαδοκία.
[55] [For modern views of these, see Encyc. Brit., s.v. “Hittites.”]
[56] [Two of the many passages that leave no room for Lardner’s imaginary “Unitarianism” in this author.]
[57] The construction here is awkward of the participles after ὅτι: possibly a clause may have dropped out after ᾽Αδάμ.
[58] [See p. 10, note 5, supra.]
[59] John the Baptist. His greatness is declared by Christ Himself.]
[60] [Two of the many passages that leave no room for Lardner’s imaginary “Unitarianism” in this author.]
III.—The Testament of Levi Concerning the Priesthood and Arrogance.
[61] [Isa. xi. 2.]
[62] See below, c. 6.
[63] Cf. Luke xxiv. 21.
[64] For the Jewish idea of seven heavens, cf. Clement of Alexandra, Strom., iv. 7; and Wetstein’s note on 2 Cor. xii. 2; [also vol. vii. note 11, this series; and vol. ii. note 7, p. 438, this series].
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