Testament of Isaac

Testament of Isaac, Gaselee1927 Bohairic translation, printedpage 62

62 THE TESTAMENT OF ISAAC made me an orphan (opcfoavos-), 0 my father; (f. r68a) I am become fatherless and wretched to-day. And our father Isaac cast his arms about Jacob ; he kissed him ; both wept until they ceased, while Jacob said: take me with thee, 0 my beloved Isaac, my blessed father. But his father said: I cannot so ordain, my beloved Jacob. But (d>J.a) thanks be unto God that thou too art a father, 0 my beloved. Tarry until thou art sent for. I also remember a day when the high and flourishing (rpopnv) cypress (Kv1rapumos-) was moved, while I spake unto my lord and father Abraham, and I could do nothing. So now, 0 my son, the ordinance which God hath ordained for each one according to His power-it is come to pass, for the things which are written may not be altered. But (m\77v) the Lord knoweth, my son, that behold my heart is heavy indeed because of thee : beside this (1ra.\iv) I rejoice in my going unto the Lord. So now make thyself strong in a prince-(£. r68b)-ly (~y£µ,oviKo,) spirit, (1rv£vµ,a), and be silent from weeping thus with exceeding weeping. Hearken unto me, 0 my beloved son, that I may speak with thee. Where is the first creation (1rpwT01rAaaµ,a) that God made with His own hands, I mean our father Adam and our mother Eve (Zw71) ? where are Abel, and Seth? where are Enos and Mahalaleel? where are Jared and my father Enoch? where are Methuselah and Lamech? where is our father Noah, and his three sons, Shem, Ham, Japheth? After these Arphaxad and Cainan and Salah and Eber and Reu and Serug and Nahor and Terah, and my father Abraham and