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The Testatments of the Twelve Patriarchs
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Introductory Notice to The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
[89] [Matt. ii. 2. Constant references to the Gospels proofs of text.]
[90] An additional clause occurs here in Cd. Oxon., which generally has a tendency to omit; the copyist of Cd. Cam. having possibly looked on to the same initial words in the next clause: “And in His priesthood shall the Gentiles be multiplied in knowledge on the earth and shall be enlightened through the grace of the Lord; but Israel shall be minished in ignorance, and be darkened in sorrow.”
[91] The reading of Cd. Oxon. here, ἀποστήσει, is to be preferred to Cd. Cam., στήσει. Grosseteste’s Latin version, in all probability made from the latter, has stare faciet. [See p. 7, note 1, supra.]
[92] [Rev. ii. 7.]
IV.—The Testament of Judah Concerning Fortitude, and Love of Money, and Fornication.
[94] Gen. xxix. 35. [The name = "Praise". So Gen. xlix. 3.]
[95] In c. 5 we find this name, with a slight variety of spelling, as that of a place over which this king may have ruled. It is doubtless equivalent to the Hebrew Tappuah, a name of several cities mentioned in the Old Testament. See Josh. xv. 34; xvi. 8; xvii. 8; 1 Chron. ii. 43. Cf. Thapha, Jubilees, 34.
[96] Cd. Oxon. reads ἑτέραν; but cf. Aresa, Jubilees, 34.
[97] Cf. c. 12; also Chezib (Gen. xxxviii. 5), Chozeba (1 Chron. iv. 22), and Achzib (Josh. xv. 44; Mic. i. 14), all of which are probably different names for the same place, and all connected with Judah.
[98] Cf. Selo, Jubilees, l.c.
[99] Cf. 1 Chron. xi. 36. [Here the translator supplies a note of doubt—an interrogation-point.]
[100] Cd. Oxon. reads Γαᾶς πόλις βασιλέων. Cf.Josh. xxiv. 30; Judg. ii. 9; 2 Sam. xxiii. 30. Cf. also “Gaiz,” Jubilees, l.c.
[101] The Timnah of the Old Testament, which name is, however, borne by several places. Most probably it is the Timnah near Bethshemesh, on the north frontier of Judah, in the neighbourhood, that is, of many of the other localities mentioned in the Testaments. This may be the same as the Timnathah on the Danite frontier (Josh. xix. 43), and with the Timnathah where Samson’s wife dwelt (Judg. xiv. 1 sqq ). The geographical position of Timnath-serah is against the allusion being to it here. Cf., however, Jubilees, c. 34, where Thamnathares is one of the hostile towns.
[102] Cf. Robel, Jubilees, l.c.
[103] Cf. Gen. xxxviii. 1.
[104] Cd. Oxon. ἐν ᾽Ανονιράμ, probably per incuriam scribæ, for ἐπάνω ᾽Ιράμ
[105] This seems to arise from the wish to disconnect Israel as far as possible from non-Shemite associations. Cf. the Targum of Onkelos on Gen. xxxviii. 6. “Judah took a wife for Er, his first-born, a daughter of the great Shem, whose name was Tamar.”
[106] διέφθειρε δὲ τὸ σπέρμα ἐπὶ τὴν γὴν
[107] [Herod. i., cap. 199; Baruch vi. 43.]
[108] [To this section Lardner objects. But compare Gen. xxxviii. 12.]
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