ana translation

PREFATOKY NOTE.
THE method of translation adopted by Paul of Telia in this his Version
of the Old Testament from the Greek that of forcing the Syriac, with
little or no regard to its idiom, into exact representation of writings in
an utterly alien language has at least this advantage, that the Greek
can be recovered from the Syriac with nearly absolute exactness.
Accordingly, the reconstructed Greek text which I now present is a
more faithful counterpart of the Syriac than an English or Latin
rendering of it could be and I am confident that it will be found more
;
useful for the service of scholars who desire to obtain access to the
textual evidence of this
Version.
The instances where its evidence is indecisive, as between various
readings of the Greek, are not many, and in no case important. Most
of them are cases of insertion or omission of the definite article ;
or
(more rarely) of preference of one or other of two nearly synonymous
words. In such instances I have usually given in the text the reading
of B, and recorded the variant in the Notes. But now and then I have
seen reason rather to follow A, or even some one or more cursives
whose text shows signs of affinity, in notable coincidences, with that
which underlies our Version.