Testament of Jacob, Gaselee1927 Bohairic translation, printedpage 76
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Testament of Jacob — S. Gaselee 1927 Bohairic English translation
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II. THE TESTAMENT OF JACOB (Cod. Copt, Vat. 61, f. 178a.) Tms again also is the coming forth from the body (awµ.a) of our father the Patriarch (1TaTptapX7Js-) Jacob, who is called Israel, on the twenty-eighth day of the month Mesore, in the peace (elp11VTJ) of God. Amen. Now (oe) it came to pass when the days of our beloved father Jacob the Patriarch, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, drew nigh that he should come forth from the body (awµ.a), and (oe) the God-loving Jacob was advanced in days, the Lord sent unto him Michael the archangel (dpxayye.\os-); and he said unto…
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- Complete supplied S. Gaselee1927 English translation of the Bohairic Coptic Testament of Jacob, from VaticanCopticManuscript61, printed76–89 in Box’s Appendix. Exact historical wording, Greek parenthetical loanwords, manuscriptfolio references, notes, textual gaps and colophon retained. Existing PDF text layer has uncertain/misrecognizedGreek letters and occasionalEnglish OCR errors; preserved without conjectural repair, originalPDF retained for checking. Not a Sahidic Kuhn/Sparks moderntranslation, no original Coptic or newly generated HSLT claim. SeparateAbraham, introductorynote, otherTestament, AdditionalNote/indexes and modernwebsiteboilerplate excluded.
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Recorded provenance: Complete supplied S. Gaselee1927 English translation of the Bohairic Coptic Testament of Jacob, from VaticanCopticManuscript61, printed76–89 in Box’s Appendix. Exact historical wording, Greek parenthetical loanwords, manuscriptfolio references, notes, textual gaps and colophon retained. Existing PDF text layer has uncertain/misrecognizedGreek letters and occasionalEnglish OCR errors; preserved without conjectural repair, originalPDF retained for checking. Not a Sahidic Kuhn/Sparks moderntranslation, no original Coptic or newly generated HSLT claim. SeparateAbraham, introductorynote, otherTestament, AdditionalNote/indexes and modernwebsiteboilerplate excluded.
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