The Lantern

Weights and Measures · English translation8

CCEL

59. This sentence not in the Greek.

60. Greek: "as to style" or "as to phraseology."

61. Greek: "is said to be."

62. Cf. § 3.

63. The Greek here has a wordplay impossible in the Syriac. Just as the sword is "the destructive one," in the sense of killing, so the obelus indicates a word that "is to be lifted up" or destroyed.

64. Not in the Greek.

65. Greek: "two cuttings."

66. This word not in the Greek.

67. At about this point the margin has: "concerning what is called the lemniscus.' '

68. Margin: "brought" or "introduced."

69. Ps. 71:15.

70. Not in the Greek.

71. Some Greek mss. read "his."

72. Ps. 72:14.

73. Lit., "without the others." .

74. This word not in the Greek.

75. - Not in the Greek.

76. Greek: ... "one that has a brother."

77. This word not in the Greek.

78. The Greek adds πότε , "when."

79. Greek: "his."

80. The marginal @ is paralleled by a similar numeral for each of the versions.

81. Cf. that text in Swete, op. cit. p. 560. Everything following, to and including "These are the names, as we have already said, of the seventy-two translators," is absent from the Greek.

82. Such names as are familiar through biblical and classical literature are given in their usual form; others are transliterated from the Greek of Aristeas, following Thackeray in Swete, op. cit.

83. Cf. R. Payne Smith, Thesaurus Syriacus, col. 546.