Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf
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HUMAN OPPRESSION AND INJUSTICE [CH.3">- III<br />
a man live to the full the round of life's occupations in every de-<br />
partment, for this is his fated lot his profit<br />
has no higher possibility."<br />
for his toil and he<br />
16. no::'] is an emphatic form of D^. Ordinarily the HT is used only<br />
after verbs of motion with a locative signification, but in Je. i8 2 Ps.<br />
1 22 5 and here it is an emphatic form of or, cf. Ko. 33oh. ?&n]. Gr.<br />
noted that in the two halves of the vs. it is tautological, and conjectured<br />
that instead of the second we should read yvs, transgression, a con-<br />
jecture which Dr. also makes. This is probably right. Had it any<br />
MS. authority I should introduce it into the text. (6 curiously reads<br />
cvjef3-/is for dcre/3^s in all copies. Eur. regards it as an early mistake, but<br />
McN. as an early dogmatic correction ia the interest of orthodoxy.<br />
17. Sieg., McN. and Ha. regard this vs. as an interpolation of the Chasid<br />
glossator.<br />
In this they are right, for the thought is out of harmony with<br />
its context. The opinion of Del. as to the double meaning of t3oa is<br />
reinforced by EDS. p. io47b. The opinions of such Hebraists cannot<br />
lightly be rejected. Moreover, vs. 18 joins directly on to vs. 16. TOON].<br />
(gB es. 248. 298 and g, rea(i >niDNi. Sp] is used as in late Heb. in the<br />
same meaning as S, so BDB., Del., Wild. 01?] has been variously<br />
interpreted. Hit., Heil., Ty., Gins., Zo., Del., PL, and Wr. take it as<br />
"there," interpreting it as "in that place" (Heil.), "in the appointed<br />
course of things" (Ty.), or apud Deum (Del. and Wr.). On<br />
the other hand, Houb., Dat., Van d. P., Luz., Kn., Gr., Re., No., VI.,<br />
Wild., Ha. and Dr. emend to ofr, as I have done above. (8 B 68 - omits<br />
it. This has led Sieg. and McN. to do the same. McN. regards it as<br />
a possible corruption of the last two letters of na>j?D or the first two of<br />
the fol. \~HDN. As (& puts it at the beginning of the next verse, it may,<br />
on the other hand, have been omitted for the sake of smoothness.<br />
McN. opposes the emendation air on the ground of awkwardness of<br />
style, but the verb in the first half of the vs. is near the end, and this<br />
clause may well have been inverted in like manner. On the whole, I<br />
prefer the conjectural emendation of the commentators quoted.<br />
18. mai ^y] is late. Apart from this passage it occurs only in BH. in<br />
Qoh. 7" 8 2 and Ps. no4 11 -<br />
. The usual form is -on 18<br />
Sj7 (cf. Gn. so<br />
12" 43 18 Ex. 8 8<br />
), or nsn Sj? (cf. Dt. 4" Je. I4 1<br />
).<br />
It means "for the sake<br />
of." Cf. BOB. o-o 1<br />
?] is, as BD5., Gins., Del, McN. and Ges. K (6yp)<br />
have noted, from *na, the inf. being formed like "n from "ni, Is. 45',<br />
and ir from *ptf, Je. 5 26 . It is connected with the As. bararu, " to be<br />
bright."