384. Cf. the λεπτεπίλεπτα suggested by Lagarde.
385. Transliterating, in this sentence, the two adjectives, "silver."
386. The word is the Greek τύμος , anything wrought of metal or stone.
387. The Greek form of the Latin libra.
388. The margin identifies these scales with the weighing instrument invented by Archimedes, χαριστιον .
389. Someone saw the discrepancy here and tried to mend matters by adding on the margin: "It is the double zuzå, the great zuzå which weighs 2 zuze."
390. Matt. 17:27.
391. Matt. 17:24.
392. Lit., "head money."
393. I read the mark by the first letter in B as the Greek e, but the word might be taken as a participle with d except for this pointing. As a matter of fact, this spelling is much nearer to the English form of the word than the usual Greek writing of the word.
394. This word, strangely enough, seems pointed as a participle in B; and if the word transliterated shekel is also a participle, we have: "for they call shåkel a pulling down."
395. The Jewish temple tax of half a shekel is here called a shekel, for Epiphanius identifies it with the double zuzå, the Greek didrachmon, and this is what the LXX calls the shekel in Lev. 27:25.
396. The Greek form of the Latin quadrans.
397. This is the most obvious meaning of the Syriac; but it might be rendered "numbering," "counting," "sum," or even "part."
398. κῳδάπιον , diminutive of κῴδιον , which is in turn a diminutive of κῶας , a sheepskin or fleece; kodrantes has a different origin.
399. A Greek weight equal to the drachma.
400. This figure does not agree with II Sam. 14:26.
401. Cf. Hultsch, op. cil. pp. 133,150,193.
402. The Syriac term would apply to any pointed missile for hurling by hand or otherwise; our "missile" is too broad a term, for it can be applied to a mere stone, and a "dart" is usually thought of as thrown by hand.
403. This spelling with an e is justified by our present English usage, which comes down to us from the Greeks. The mss. do not of themselves justify a spelling here different from the "obolus" elsewhere. A has the word "obolus" or "obelus" seven times in this paragraph; in the first three instances there is no attempt to represent the medial vowel; in the last four it is indicated by @ . In B the vowel is so represented in six cases; only in the second instance is the vowel not represented.
404. Prov. 17:6 in LXX.
405. Cf. Hultsch, op. cit. p. 210.
406. Lev. 27:25 in LXX.
407. This is the transliteration of the Greek adjective corresponding to chalkus, a popular term for silver coins of small value.
408. Cf. Hultsch, op. cit. pp. 133 f.