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SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES. 139
to reproduce by this ij
with suffix. In four of them the intention is
obviously to emphasize the pronoun. In 2 Pet. i. 1 6 (T?}S
CKCO/OV /xeya-
Aetor^ros), and Jud. 18 (ras eavrcoi/ rt#v/uas), the choice of pronouns
marks the emphasis further. So too in 2 Pet. iii. 7 (TO) O.VTOV Aoyu)) the
emphasis is
reverential, and seems to point to the (somewhat remote)
subject (see ver. 5, TOV @ou). Again, in Jud. 20, the writer's appeal
to his readers for personal effort, on the basis of their existing faith, is
pointed by the prominent position given to the pronoun (rrj
In all these cases the OlXi), tOOla), .QH-^jj of Philox. reproduces
the emphatic force of the Greek. In the two remaining, the like force
takes different forms. In 2 Pet. ii. 2 (avriav rrj ao-eXyeta) the transposition
of the pronoun points to the "false teachers" whose "lascivious
way " many will follow, and the Syriac
. Od\*> (Zo211^ marks this ;
whereas .OQlZaai^ would rather convey " will follow their own lascivious
way." In Jud. 3 (^/xoiv the
orcorjyptas) order of the words indicates
that (as the epithet KOII/^S requires) by
" our salvation
" the writer does
not mean " salvation for himself and those about him," but " salvation
which is mine and yours," yours as well as mine : in Syriac, ^-^-? H-M ,
not *
merely.
Similarly, in the remaining instances, in which the Greek though it
implies emphasis does not mark it by choice or order of words, the
Syriac translator at his own discretion indicates it by ^*J
Thus, in 2 Pet iii. 13 Ol^jij is emphatic
with suffix.
for the same reason as in
iii. 7, though in /caret TO eTrayyeX/xa CLVTOV the pronoun is not placed
before the noun as in TO) avrov Aoyu>. Thus, too,' by . iNi? (2 Pet. i. 1 5 ;
3 Joh. 4) there is laid a personal stress on " my departure," "my
children " (TYJV e/xryv ZoSov, TO. e/xa re'/cca), just as in the instance above
cited from the Peshitta (Joh. vii. 8).
17/xtov), in which place the ^'? emphasizes
So again in 3 Joh. 12 (fj
the reference to
Tvpovptv, just before. In 2 Joh. 12 (rj x a P a ^/*wi/) the force of T~^-? is
to mark that the joy, as in Jud. 3 (see above) the faith, is "ours" in
the sense of "mine and yours." With this is to be reckoned the ^-^-?
of Jud. 21 (where Philox. reads f]/*wv in the Greek, unsupported), for
this verse merely repeats the T-^-? \**** of Jud. 3 ; WT} and o-oor/y/oi'a
being in Syriac alike expressed by }** Yet again, in 2 Pet. ii. 12
(eV TTJ 0opa O.VTW), tOOl^ij has the same distinctive emphasis as in
ii. 3, the translator (wrongly perhaps) taking avruv to relate to the
(persons or) things indicated by the plur. relative pronoun in the words