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124 SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES.
[3 JOH. 7-10
to Pesh. Possibly SaSQl is meant as a loose rendering of
as the Latin Vulgate has "gentibua" here, not " gentilibus" The
adjectival rendering of WVIKOS appears also in Harkl., e.g.
Mt. v. 47,
and elsewhere. Thus the evidence of Harkl. against idvZ>v is distinct,
while that of Philox. is
open to question.
9. The use of \\*~* (^oAol AaOOl )lO, lit., cftovXowv yponj/ai) in
the rendering of eypai^a av by both translators is peculiar. For the
impersonal ]^ followed by fut. with J prefix (which some of our
codices insert here),
see Thes. Syr., s.v. Here JlQ becomes almost an
auxiliary verb " would " in
(like English). In modern Syriac it seems
to be similarly used, but without J, as ^-^il ^> V*) (= "I wish
to go").*
Ib. The variant tO'TS i> (
= vfj.u)v)
for .OO1_^> (
= O.VTUV, as in all Gr.
texts) is found in 2 and most texts of Philox., and adopted by Arab. ;
but 9, 12, 14, with 11, 18, 20, write .OOli^j ;
also Harkl. 1 stands
= apart, reading OLVTUV
^OOl-^Oj TTO.VTUV, but probably by a mere slip
of the pen for .OOl\j>.
10. The Gr. authorities here read without exception cav l\6OH.
To take (b)
first : For 3O11 (Poc.) 8 is the sole witness. Putting
aside for the moment 9, 18, all the rest read JO11|. It is evident
that 8 has in mere inadvertence dropped the initial (
after the f
(final letter of "||?) immediately preceding. The remaining JOH could
then only be understood as second person imperative peal, JOI^(
=
virofjLvrio-OYjTL,
" remember tJiou ").
This again required that the preceding
12) j OO1 .] should mean tav IXOy ("if
lie
comes"), for "if I come,
remember thou [his doings] " would be meaningless. And hence (a)
resulted the pointing ]L]y (= ]L]y,
" if he comes," or " if he has come ").
* Maclean, Grammar of Vernacular Syriac, s. 51.