Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf
Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf
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MAN'S HELPLESSNESS [CH.3i-> 5<br />
103<br />
revolving circle. Tyler compares Ovid, Metamorphoses, XV,<br />
179 /-'<br />
Even time itself glides on with constant progress<br />
No otherwise than a river. For neither can the river pause,<br />
Nor the fleeting hour; but as wave is urged by wave,<br />
The earlier pushed by the one approaching, and it pushes the former,<br />
So the moments similarly fly on and similarly follow,<br />
And ever are renewed.<br />
Qoheleth's figure is not, however, a river, but a circle. In this he<br />
conceives of event as chased by event, until it is itself brought back<br />
by God. Already], see on i 10 .<br />
I 1 , pr] occurs in Heb.only in late books (Ne. 2 6 Es. 9" 3I and here).<br />
and Zebakhim,<br />
It is used frequently in the Mishna (see e.g., Erub., 67 ,<br />
i 1 and 2 3 . The participle occurs in Ezr. io 14 Ne. lo , 35 31 and i3 , in the<br />
sense of fixing calendar dates. The noun means a "fixed or appointed<br />
time." Schechter conjectures that in the Heb. of BS. 4 20 , pnn nj; M3<br />
should be pn ny ^3 (see above Introd. 11, i). The Greek of<br />
BS., however, translates simply by Katpov. The root pt, having the<br />
same general meaning, is found in Ar., Eth. and Aram. In some of<br />
the dialects of the latter (Syr., Mand., Palmy rene and Samaritan), it is<br />
zabna, or zibna. In As. it occurs as simanu. In the Aram, of<br />
Daniel it occurs several times in the sense of "appointed time," see<br />
16 - 21 7 -<br />
Dn. 2 3 8<br />
, etc.