Gk. ἀήττητοι καιροὶ ; Bringel translates, "un empire invincible," but it is not clear why.
Cf. Lampe s.v. ἀνακόλουθος .
Bringel's text, with an additional word: "against the gods, who cannot be insulted."
Bringel's text, using other variants: "a leader having the unconquerable power of the unconquerable God."
Gk. ἁλῶν ; the reading and its significance are debatable.
This motif is odd; perhaps, as Bringel suggests, some magical / imprecatory power is envisaged.
Gk. εὐάρεστοι ; Bringel's text has ἄρευστοι ("unchanging").
The participle is in the nominative case—grammatically, then, it ought to be describing the gods ; but the context seems to require a reference to the envoys and the occasion for their consultations. Some emendation is likely required.
Bringel cites the Diccionario griego-español s.v. δῆλος for the LXX use of the word as a masc. noun connected with divination; cf. also (e.g.) Muraoka, Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint , s.v.
Gk. πυθμεύει ; the sense is obscure. Lampe (s.v.) glosses the verb as to "give the base of a series" and arguest that its appearance in this context implies that with this third oracle, the full understanding is revealed. Bringel translates, "va jusqu'au fond" ("goes to the bottom"—i.e., of the tripod / cauldron, to fetch the oracles).
Gk. παρείς ; Bringel, printing a different variant ( σπαρείς), translates, "une fois engendré" ("having once been engendered"—or "sown")
The letters of Μαρία , when interpreted as numerals, add up to 152.
Gk. πᾶν ἱερὸν ὑμῶν σέβας . Bringel translates, "toute votre majesté sacrée" ("all your holy majesty").
Gk. φιλοσοφία . Here the phrase doubles as a kind of honorific address: "Your Philosophy" (parallel to phrases like "Your Majesty" for a monarch) is a paraphrase for "you"—hence, "it was in doubt" is equivalent to "you were in doubt."
I.e., "your love of wisdom."
Here Bringel chooses a different reading: διὰ τὸ εἶναι ("because of the fact that...") rather than τὸ εἶναι . This makes the overall architecture of this sprawling sentence marginally better: "for this reason" a few lines later then reiterates / reinforces the logic of the preposition διά .
Cf. Gen. 11.1.
There is an unexpected switch to a masc. participle here (hence "teachers" rather than "teachings").
Gk. ἐκ πρὶν (Bratke) / πρώην (Bringel) καὶ δεῦρο.
Gk. ἀπειροθρήσκως ; Lampe, s.v., renders this "without experience of true religion"; cf. Bringel, "sans expérience de la religion." An alternative interpretation is possible: "with boundless religiosity."
Something appears to be missing in this sentence. Bringel's text is slightly expanded at the beginning of this sentence, with an explicit reference to disagreement, but still does not quite sit comfortably; and it omits any reference to Buddhists: "Jews fight against Samaritans; Greeks likewise who live without experience of religion" [cf. previous footnote for this adverb].
Gk. δόξαι .
Gk. χρήσεις ; Bringel translates "oracles."
Adapted from ANF translation (attributed to Julius Africanus).
Gk. ἐκ Περσίδος ἐγνώσθη . Alternatively, this could be translated, "became known [to others] from Persia."