Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf
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1 58<br />
ECCLESIASTES<br />
loves or hates an individual is one of the inscrutable things men-<br />
tioned in the preceding vs., which man cannot fathom. All before<br />
them is vanity]. For the text of this rendering, see crit. note to<br />
vs. 2. The meaning is, all before men is a blank, they can gain<br />
no knowledge of God's attitude toward them or of the future.<br />
16. ^No]="when," cf. Gn. 12" i8 33 , etc. 'a 1<br />
? nx Tiro], cf. on i 13 .<br />
Ptfn], cf. on i 13 . ai >a], as RV., Wild., Sieg., McN., etc., have noted,<br />
begins a parenthesis. njty] is the object of the act. part. nxn. vrjn] is<br />
regarded by Ha. as a gl., because of his metrical theory. 17. TP&nVj.<br />
1 introduces the apodosis. DTiSxn nirj?c], as Wild, notes this is =<br />
ni^pj Tirx and shows that Q. ascribes all activities to God. Ha.<br />
erases the words as a gl. xi^oS] is used in an intellectual sense, cf. ch.<br />
3" 7 29 Job ii 7 and Je. 2 B . -KTN Stfa], Kn., Ew., Hit., Heil. and Dr.<br />
(hesitatingly) emend to Soa following (&. Del., Wr., Eur. and others<br />
hold that ^3 is due to an early correction, S^a being parallel to the<br />
Aram. -" i Sna, which occurs in Targ., Onk., Gn. 6 3 . In Jonah i 7 we<br />
find 'oWa, and i 12 *7Bto. Such compounds are late and influenced by<br />
Aramaic. Cf. Ja. i4oa and Ko. 3896 and 2846. nx DJ] corresponds<br />
to Ph. DX ex, CIS. No. 3 6<br />
, cf. Ko. 394f. -^ "IDS] applies to<br />
thought, cf. Ex. 2 14 and 2 S. 2i 16 . 9 1 . ii^i] is taken differently by<br />
different scholars. Hit., Heil., Gins, and Z6. take it as from "03,<br />
which in the Mishna is used as "prove," etc. (cf. Ja. iQ7b), and re-<br />
gard it as an inf. used instead of the finite verb, cf. i S. 8 12 , Je. zy 10 ig 12<br />
17<br />
2 Ch. 7 (cf. for constr. Ko. 4135). Del., Wr. and Wild, take it from<br />
the same root, but supply >min with it, as rnn is used in 3 15 with nvnS.<br />
Gr. and Ko. (4135) emend with B,