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The Testatments of the Twelve Patriarchs
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Introductory Notice to The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
[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].
[66] [Hades, rather.]
[67] [ἐπὶ τῳ πάθει τοῦ ῾Υψισοῦ. Compare Tatian, vol. ii. p. 71, this series.]
[68] This document, the idea of which is that of a book containing what is fore-ordained in heaven as to the course of the future, is one often appealed to in Apocalyptic literature, when some oracular declaration of weighty import is needed. Thus, in the Book of Enoch, the angel Uriel tells Enoch that the tablets contain all wisdom, the dying Enoch tells his children that the tablets are the source of all understanding, etc. (see, e.g., cc. 81. 1; 93. 2; 106. 19, ed. Dillmann). In the Book of Jubilees, again, it is said that inscribed on the tablets are, e.g., the punishment of the angels who sinned with mortal women, the plan of the division of weeks, the name of Abraham as the friend of God, etc. (cc. 5, 6, 19). See also Test. Asher, 2, 7, infra.
[69] [Gen. xlviii. 16. The Jehovah-Angel.]
[70] ἀσπίς. The Latin version gives the other meaning to ἀσπίς here, of asp or viper. The epithet χαλκῆν, however, renders “shield” much more probable, as there seems nothing in the context pointing to the “brazen serpent.”
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