The Lantern

Weights and Measures · Foreword, Introduction3

CCEL

July 5, 1935

[Footnotes moved to end]

Semitic has very few actual compounds; it habitually renders such terms by a genitival combination of two words.

See E. H. Sturtevant, The Pronunciation of Greek and Latin (Chicago, 1920) pp. 143-46, cf. 132-35.

ZDMG XXXII (1878) 736.

Incidentally, we must correct three errors of pagination in the index of Brockelmann's Lexicon under "etymologia": read 174b for 172b; 270b for 276b; 800a for 806a.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

Abbreviations etc................ xv

IntRoduction................ 1

The Treatise of St. Epiphanius on Weights and Measures (Syriac Introductory Sections)............ 11

(The Treatise) of St. Epiphanius, Bishop of the City of Constantia in Cyprus, on Measures and Weights and Numbers and

Other Things That Are in the Divine Scriptures .... 15

SECTION

Introduction..............1 15

Signs Used in the Scriptures.........2 16

Why, How, and When the Greek Translations Were Made . 9 23

The Septuagint.............9 24

Aquila...............13 29

Symmachus..............16 32

Theodotion..............17 33

The Fifth and Sixth Translations.......18 34

Origen's Edition of the Combined Texts......18 35

Measures...............21 39

Of Capacity..............21 39