559. The margin of the Syro-Hexaplaric version reads: "The rest say, forty." Cf. also Field, Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt, on Jonah 3:4.
560. Jonah 4:10.
561. LXX of Jonah 3:4; also the Syro-Hexaplaric version.
562. 1 Sam. xxv.
563. Cf. Eusebius, op. cit. pp. 118-19.
564. Cf. Eusebius, loc. cit. Cf. LXX of IV Kings 1:9, where the exact word of Eusebius does not occur, but an excellent synonym. George Adam Smith thinks Mount Carmel is the scene of the story here related (Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible I 355 b).
565. Cf. Eusebius, loc. cit.
566. B has two Greek readings in the margin: ζιβακανος and βιζκανοι . Named from the Roman province Byzacium in North Africa.
567. Isa. 23:10 in LXX.
568. Isa. 23:1, 6, 10; Ezek. 27:12, 25; 38:13.
569. Cf. Matt. 8:11 f. and Luke 13:29; not an exact quotation.
570. Rather free translation justified by the context.
571. Job 1:3 in LXX.
572. The very same word just translated "rising."
573. The word seems to be pointed as a participle, meaning "friends"; but it can equally well mean "by the womb" or "by birth," and this fits better what immediately follows. The later reference to the "friend of God" may, however, hark back to the meaning "friends."
574. Gen. 36:13 and 10.
575. For the idea of Abraham versus the entire human race, cf. Breshith Rabbah 42:13.
576. James 2:23; Isa. 41:8; II Chron. 20: 7. Cf. Philonis Alexandrini Opera quae supersunt, ed. L. et P. Wendland, II (Berlin, 1897) 226 (Mangey ed. [London, 1742] I 401).
577. R. Payne Smith, op. cit. col. 3879, cites III Esd. 8:11, 13, 26 as authority for the statement that the seven nobles nearest to the king of the Persians were called "friends."
578. Other instances of this phrase applied to Abraham, but as an epithet rather than a name, are: Zadokite Fragments 4:2; Jub. 19:9; I Clem. 10:1 and 17:2; Jerusalem Targum on Gen. 18:17; Prayer of Azariah 12 ("beloved of God"); Avoth dRabbi Nathan, version 2, chap. 43 @@ and @@), ed. Schechter, p. 61; Bmidhbar Rabba 16:3 (@@).
579. Greek for "widely" is εὐρέως .
580. An attempt to derive euros from @@ , "head."
581. Lit., "vehement," "typhonic"; Acts 27:14.
582. A reads d for r, a plain error.
583. I.e., the east.