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INTRODUCTION
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2. Further, it is to be noted that (as above stated) the compiler prefixes
to his extracts from 1 Esdras the heading, ~*-^* n rd=>&vA ^
rfiv-xi ("
From the First Book of Ezra"), and immediately subjoins to
them his extracts from Nehemiah, headed, t^iv-^i ^.ii^i n=&\_a, ^a
("From the Second Book of Ezra"), adding, nri-n u IT rdLa ^
(" from the words of Nehemiah "),
thus ignoring entirely the canonical
Ezra. Hence it follows as probable that in our compiler's copy of
Paul's Version, 1 Esdras (" after the Seventy ") was not merely included
with, but substituted for, the Ezra of
the Hebrew and the Peshitta.
If this be so, we are to interpret the " Esdras " of the Masian list as
meaning " 1 Esdras [the apocryphal], with Nehemiah " and
;
to conclude
that Paul in his Version not only differed from the Greek MSS
of the Septuagint as regards the arrangement by which* they usually
place the " Greek Esdras " first (describing it as "Bo-Spas A), and after
it the canonical Ezra plus Nehemiah (as *EaSpas B), but that he
altogether omitted the " Esdras " which follows
the Hebrew, and filled
its place by this (so-called) " Apocryphal 1 Esdras," which represents
the Hebrew but partially, omitting much, inserting one large episode,
and paraphrasing rather than translating throughout.
3. Thus, finally, the surmise is suggested, that in this preference
for the Book which is now excluded from the Canon over the canonical
Book, Origen himself may have led the way in his Hexapla ;
Catena passes over the canonical Ezra, because Paul omitted it
that the
from
his Version, and that Paul omitted it because Origen substituted for it
in the Septuagint column of his Tetrapla and Hexapla, the Book we
reckon as non-canonical.
SECTION VIII.
Analogy between 1 Esdras and the "Chisian" Daniel.
Elsewhere (Diet, of Chr. Biography, art. Theodotion)^ I have called
attention to the close affinity which subsists between the Daniel of the
Hexapla (the "Chisian") and this " 1 Esdras," in their paraphrastic
style, their use of words, and the relation which they severally bear to
their respective originals an affinity such as (in my judgment) to
bespeak a common translator. There is no unlikelihood in the suggestion
* So A, B, and [presumably] N.
t Vol. iv, p. 977.