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2 PET. ii. 19] SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES. Ill
supported by 12 and 18) is as adequate as OllSo to express the power
by which "a man is overcome," as shown by the use of ^JOlL in the
second member of the sentence to express the power by which he " is
brought in bondage " (,^SV> ]jOlX = TOVTU ScScv'Aumu).
Ol-^ best reproduces the symmetry of the antithetical phrase
The reading
of the
Greek ;
and seems therefore preferable to the OllLo of the majority of
our codices (including 9 and 14).
They are, however, countenanced by
Harkl., striving laboriously as usual for accurate expression
of the
meaning. It may be from Harkl. that OllSo has made its way into so
many of our codices ;
but more probably
it
may have been introduced
independently by some scribe in a like effort to make the sense more
clear. That copyists found difficulty in understanding the passage is
shown by the variations in pointing the participle PI (see note on
Syr. text in loc.). If by ]>!, which 1 and 2 write, they meant present
participle act. (PI), they must have misunderstood the text which (in
writing OlL) they preserved as regards the letters. I write |OJ,
participle pass. For a like case of doubtful pointing in these two
codices, see above, Note on ii.
9 (j^J).
Ib. Both 1 and 2 write jdlmSi) (point on So). If by ]b\ (see last
Note) these codices mean ptcp. active, they presumably intend
for rOl*So, active likewise, to be distinguished from
passive.
But in this case, and many others of participles with LD preformative,
the usage of 1 (and sometimes of 2), as regards diacritic
points, is peculiar, and needs examination. The facts are as follows.
(a) Whereas by ordinary usage the participles pael and aphel are
distinguished as (pa.) *\&&D, (aph.) ^^^D, 1 frequently (and 2
now and then) places point over the preformative So where aph. is
not admissible. One such instance occurs above, ver. 14, where
^^rAiO is written by 1, though the aph. of the verb ^,*
use; but pa. only. Other like examples are: iii. 3,
^i
is not in
iT"^O; iii. 13
and 14,
^-*M>> ; iii. 16, ^iVinsV) ; 3 Joh. 2,
fl^b ; ib. 9 and 10,
^nnV); Jud. 10,
^.g^Vn; ib. 12, ^^D/OLD ; ib. 13, ^iO*ib.
So also 2 writes ]ooSb (2 Joh. 2).
None of these verbs occurs in
aph. ;
all occur in pa. [see
Thes. Syr., under their several roots] ; except
that *jJLA the aph. of ]] ,
is found, though rarely ;
but not in the
sense of tv^o/xcu,
which in the place above cited (3 Joh. 2)
is as usual
expressed by pa.
-^r (U fcSD).