Testament of Isaac, Gaselee1927 Bohairic translation, printedpage 57
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Work: Testament of Isaac
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Testament of Isaac — S. Gaselee 1927 Bohairic English translation
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I. THE TESTAMENT OF ISAAC (Cod. Copt. Vat. 61, f. 164ti.) THIS is the coming forth from the body (runµ,a) of the Patriarch (7Ta-rp,apx7J,) Isaac, the son of Abraham, on the twenty-eighth day of the month Mesore, 1 in the peace (Eip7Jv'TJ) of God. Amen. Now {SE) the Patriarch (1Ta-rptap)(TJ,) Isaac wrote his Testament (o,a07JK7J} and spake his words for the instruction of Jacob his son and of all them that were gathered together unto him, so that the bless- ings of the Patriarch (7Ta-rpiapX7J,) should be upon those that heard, and upon those also that should come after …
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- Testament of Isaac — S. Gaselee 1927 Bohairic English translation
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- Complete supplied S. Gaselee1927 English translation of the Bohairic Coptic Testament of Isaac, from VaticanCopticManuscript61, printed57–75 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 Isaac, from VaticanCopticManuscript61, printed57–75 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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