Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf
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ATTITUDE TOWARD RULERS [Cn. 10 4-20<br />
169<br />
(& suggests that the original reading was an niSao niaan nnon BJ?D n,i\<br />
This was transformed in & into J3J7D rnSao 21 iiaani noDnn np\<br />
Iff read the same except that it omitted a~\, while MT. went a step<br />
further and omitted i. The original reading of (8 presented an antithe-<br />
sis to the first half of the verse, the Rabbinic revisers present in &, If<br />
and MT. a thought in harmony with the first half verse. (Cf. McN.,<br />
p. 150^"., who has worked this out). 2. a 1<br />
?] was taken by Mich, in an<br />
anatomical sense. He held the verse to mean that wisdom is as rare<br />
as a man with the heart on the right side of the body. It is better with<br />
Del. to take aS="thought" or "will" (cf. ch. f and Ho. 4"). r']<br />
is taken by Del., Wr. and Wild, correctly to have a moral significance<br />
kindred to that in the Talmud, where p 11<br />
is used as a vb., which in<br />
some forms means "to do the right thing," cf. Ja. 58ob. There is no<br />
need with PL to call in Greek influence to explain the figure.<br />
s NDr]<br />
is similarly used with a moral significance =" errors." Cf. Ja. iSQib<br />
for kindred Talmudic usage. 3. "|Sn SaDira -pia o:n] is inverted for<br />
emphasis from iSin -pta Vro^a DJI, cf. 3 13 . *pi] is rightly taken<br />
by Kn., Hit., Gins., McN., etc.,<br />
in the literal sense="when the fool<br />
takes a walk." Wr., with less probability, takes it to mean "the common<br />
path of life." -c i<br />
o]=nrN3, a temporal particle, cf. 8 7 and Ko.<br />
387f. ion] is a verb (so Del., Wr., McN.), and not an adj. (Gins.).<br />
It occurs with 3^ eleven times outside of this passage, cf. Pr. 6 32 7 7 .<br />
"*EN] is taken by Del. and No. to mean "he (the fool) says to every<br />
one by his actions that he is a fool." This gives to IEN an unusual<br />
meaning. This renders Vn^] "to every one." It is better with McN.<br />
to take SaS=" concerning every one," and so give to "\CN its usual<br />
meaning. Sro], a noun, not an adj.<br />
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