Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf

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