234. The affirmative particle is repeated in A.
235. Not in the Greek.
236. The Aramaic @@ means "oil press."
237. Greek: "oil-presser." This ἐλαιοτρέπτης (in the Breslau ms., ἐλαιοτρήπτης ) should be inserted in the next edition of Liddell and Scott.
238. Surely this remark is meant to apply only to medimnos.
239. Not in the Greek.
240. The Greek word is transliterated; "neither feminine nor masculine" is not in the Greek.
241. The Greek term, not in common use among Syriac-speaking people.
242. The Syriac term is an unusual one, requiring the added gloss.
243. Not in the Greek.
244. But in reality Epiphanius' description attributes to the Hebrews the invention of the measure rather than the name.
245. Cf. F. Hultsch, Griechische und romische Metrologie (Berlin, 1882) p. 631.
246. Cf. Deut. 25:15.
247. The days are numbered in the margin. The Greek adds, "he made"; for the preceding sentence there reads: "And the sacred measure is none other than the twenty-two works that God did in the six days of the hebdomad."
248. In the Greek there follows: τήν τε ὑποκάτω τῆς γῆς καὶ τοῦ χάους . Dindorf in his ed. of Epiphanius (Vol. IV [Lipsiae, 1862] Pars I, p. xv) also cites the following, from Codex Venetus Marcianus: τάς τε ἐν ἀβύσσοις, τήν τε ὑποκάτω τῆς ἀβύσσου τῶν ὑδάτων τῶν τε ἐπάνω τῆς γῆς, ἐξ οὗ ὑπὲρ σκότος ἐστέ. καὶ σκότος .....
249. Epiphanius would distinguish between the abyss of Sheol and the abysmal waters that in Gen. 1:2 are said to have covered the entire earth.
250. The Greek continues: "and the division between the waters above the firmament and the waters below the firmament upon the face....."
251. Greek: "And all the works done by God in the six days were twenty-two."
252. Greek: "And God completed everything."
253. Verb in margin.
254. Not in the Greek.
255. LXX of Exod. 19:5 and Deut. 7:6 and 14:2.
256. Not in the Greek.
257. Greek order:.... Enosh, Enoch, Arpachshad, Shelah, Kenan, Peleg, Mahalalel, Eber, Reu, Jared, Serug, Nahor, Methuselah, Terah, Lamech, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.
258. LXX of Gen. 11:12 makes Cainan the son of Arpachshad and father of Shelah, but this is not in the Peshitta. Cf. Luke 3:36.