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Testament of Moses
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Testament of Moses IX
IX.1 Then on that [day there will be] a man from the tribe of Levi, whose name will be Taxo. Having seven sons, he will entreat them, saying: IX.2 “See, sons: look, another vengeance has come upon the people, cruel and unclean, and exposure to shame without mercy, surpassing the first. IX.3 For what nation, what region, or what people impious against the Lord, who have done many wicked things, have suffered evils as great as those that have happened to us? IX.4 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. See and know that neither [our] parents nor their forefathers ever tested God by transgressing his commands. IX.5 For you know that these things are strength for us. And this we shall do: IX.6 Let us fast for three days, and on the fourth day enter the cave in the field. Let us die rather than transgress the commands of the Lord of lords, the God of our fathers. IX.7 For if we do this and die, our blood will be avenged before the Lord.”
Source notes · Testament of Moses IX
Notes from this edition, separate from the reading. Original source text is retained.
- IX.1: Adopts die erit for dicente and dicet for dicens; bracketed day/existence depends on that reconstruction. Rogans follows IX.1 in Charles’s explicit reader numbering, though placed with IX.2 in the raw manuscript alignment.
- IX.2: Adopts eminens for eminent. Principatum is interpreted as the first/beginning in this comparative construction; its normal Latin sense is rule or primacy, so the comparison remains a critical interpretation.
- IX.3: Adopts Dominum for domum. English normalizes the Latin number mismatch.
- IX.4: Adopts the plural temptan(te)s and Charles’s supplied nostri. English gives the participial clause a finite verb; this is a grammatical rendering, not a claim that a finite Latin verb survives.
- IX.5: Reader verse boundary follows Charles’s explicit numbering: Et hoc faciemus belongs here, not to the beginning of the next verse as positioned beside the manuscript margin.
- IX.6: Reader boundary starts with Jejunemus. Speluncam is a case regularization; English omits the printed duplicated est without adding content.
- IX.7: Vindicabitur regularizes the manuscript vindicavitur. Quotation marks are supplied editorial punctuation.
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