Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf

ECCLESIASTES
every period a synonym of nin- This usage occurs in NH. also, cf.
Aboth, i 4 and 2 s
, and for the idiom Ja. sub voce. See also Ko. 326h.
For DINS] (& has tv T< avOpdiry. Probably there was a pre-Aqiban read-
ing DINS. jvjn] is not nijn, but probably comes from the same root.
BDB. renders it "longing," "striving." In the Tal. it means "desire,"
"ambition," "greed" (cf. Ja. sub voce). Nina;] was read Nin^ by Ki.
(cf. Ges.K -
ch. 3 18 . SD and >Dts>n
36), and is so read by Baer, Del., No. and VI. Cf. Drip,
N-intp] Ha.'s metrical arrangement leads him
to reject as glosses. 23. vo^ SD] is regarded by AE., Hit., Gr., Gins,
and McN. as ace. of time, OOJOD being taken like Dj?a as a pred. of pjp.
This is a possible construction. Del., Wr., Sieg., Ha. and Ko. (cf.
3o6r) take it as the subj. of a nominal sentence, of which DOXDD is the
predicate. D'O&OD]. Gins, remarks that this is a plural used to express
an abstract idea. 0^51], see the comment on i 18 and for py, on i 13 . Del.
and Wr. note that the pointing of waiv with kamec before DJJD is done be-
cause D}72 is a segholate, having its accent on the first syllable, thus bring-
before the tone. For similar cases see
ing the vowel of i into an open syl.
Lv. i8B Is. 65" and Pr. 25'. The sentence which begins here is nom-
inal and its pred. is for emphasis placed first. Cf. Ko. 3380 33^],
literally "lie down," is used for "sleep" (Gn. 28 13
Ju. i6 3 and i S. 3").
The rendering "rest" is a little free, but gives the sense. DJ]. U read
a ~i before the last DJ, but this is unsupported by the other versions.
S^n nt DJ] Zap. erases as a stereotyped gloss, which disturbs the
metre, but Ha. finds it necessary to the metre here.
24. Sieg., with no good reason, denies the last clause of the vs. to
Q. It is thoroughly consistent with the point of view of such a
Jew as Q. Sieg. is right in saying that in Q. 210 and raw rarely
denote ethical good (as in 7 20 i2 14
), but "convenience," "satisfaction,"
1 - as in 2 2
3 12 - 13 - 22 6 - 8
4
5"
6 3 12
7"- 2 12 - 8
ii?. BDE. show that
they seldom have ethical meaning in OT. 01x2] is a corruption from
DixS, for that is the reading of (&BAC , &
and TJ, and the construction
in 6 12 and 8 15 . SsN'tf], before this word a D has fallen out. Gins., Gr., Del.,
Wr., Eur., Wild., McN., Kit. and Ko. (3igh) have taken this view.
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