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68 SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES. [GEN.xxvi.26-lCHR.n.3
The present attempt, therefore, to recover the Greek forms which
underlie the Syriac, is in many cases merely conjectural.
There is not
much guidance to be found in it from the Greek manuscripts of the
LXX, which vary among themselves too much to be relied on. The
practical rule followed in each case has been :
among the Greek variants
to select the one (if
there be any such) which seems to come nearest to
the Syriac, and to transliterate the Syriac into as close agreement
with that Greek variant as it admits of.
When the Syriac fails to determine between two or more readings
of the Greek, I have usually adopted that of cod. B ;
but in some places,
when the immediate context shows signs of other influences, I have
preferred to follow A, or the group of cursives (19, 93, 108 with
. .
.)
whose text that represented by our Syriac had (as our Apparatus shows)
a close affinity.
GENESIS.
XXVI. 26. For i/v/A agreeing with 8e, which all Gr. write here. A stop is
to be inserted before ^
31. The reading
cv.=ru
be ac-
= ( w/xoo-av, as most Gr.) may safely
cepted, though but imperfectly legible in MS, in preference to n?a^
( = w/xocrci/, as E).
1 CHRONICLES.
I. 24. ixAAinra] sic in MS but no doubt
;
^xA^irc-o is intended.
II. 3. ..-^OLX_I cn&\io (=TIJS OvyaTpos 'lo-ava)]
The Syr. may as
probably represent 'lo-ovc (see note on Gr. text, p. 37 supr.).
If our