Ethiopic Didascalia

Platt historical English notes, source page 165

NOTES. nn,£^ : qu. d. " the gods of the stranger," which seemed the easiest and slightest change that could be adopted. P. 57. L 3. On.R : Tliis pleonastic u seems to be seldom used in Ethiopic, but is of frequent occurrence in the Amharic dialect. P. 58. 1. 8. "XflYl : ^d.M*y\ ■ " until thou growest old." The translator has here mis- taken the Greek els yipas, " as a reward or portion," for eis y^pas, " unto old age." P. 59. L 4. Pthqoo. : MS. ^rhC""' : Ibid. 1. 7. 2\A : HflH "• "^A : TfLHO)- : ^A : appears to have stood originally in the MS. in the place of YkA : A later hand has changed it into "XA : leaving the first "XA : as before, for which I have here written ?iA : In neither case is the con- struction very clear, though the general sense is obvious enough. P. 60. 1. 5. lrl^YlOO' : 'i<.jPT : ^'Vd/Vi^on- -. fi^ihA. : &c. The construction of this sentence is confused ; but I do not see any very obvious way of removing the diffi- culties, and so have left the passage as in the MS. Ibid. 1. 10. This mystical allusion to the Greek character Iota, the first letter of the name 'Irjaovs, " Jesus," I shall not attempt to elucidate, any further than by setting down the Greek Text of the passage. It will be seen that there is something of a play upon the nu- merical value of the letter t " Ten," as symbolical of the Ten plagues and the Ten com- mandments, and of the Tenths or Tithes. The Greek Text is as follows : AfKarai (nanrfpiov dpxv ovofiaros 'Irjcrov' aKove hpa Kado7\UKrj EKKT^cria, 17 ttjv $eKdTr?\j]yov iicnefftsDyvTa, Koi rrjv SeKciKoyov et\r]<f>v7a, Kat tov vofiov HEfiadriKvta, kou iiu tov 'Irjcrovv TTemcrrevKvTa, Koi to ovofia aiirov E-novofxatpiihr), Kai in) t^ T£\eiii)(ret rtjs So^tjs axnov icrrrjpty- fiivt] Koi Axx/xTTOUora" at rore 6vaiat, vvv eu%a<, k. t. \. Some copies have, after the word TrsirtcrrevKvTa, another clause : koi rrjv SeKaSa iyvioKvTa, Koi eir) T^ lurroL, oTrep iariv apyrj ovofxaros 'lt](Tov, TTe-TriaTEVKVia. P. 62. 1. 3. JJ^^^T : It appears, from the Greek Text, that this should rather have been il.^^r^t' : " the Deaconess." Ibid. 1. 10. n^?^ : Q>*flT : J'P^ : The Greek is Trpoo-eAfle?!/ e/f dva-tacrr^ptov ; and I have translated the word J'P'f : accordingly, both here and in the passage two lines above. The original meaning of the word J'Pl' : is "Ark," from the Hebrew n5^. Arabic c— ujIj : its various senses in the Ecclesiastical language of Abyssinia are explained at large by Ludolf, in his Lexicon (in voc.) . See also Gobat's Journal of a Residence in Abyssinia, p. 350 et al. P. 65. 1. 12. «i«f-^f|Jt- : MS. OBf ^fit- : See on p. 43. 1. 9. Ibid. 1. 14. H^o^r-r : MS. WJi^^r'T : Id- P. 68. 1. 5. (Dn%TI?\ : Some verb seems to have been omitted here, I"}-!- ^nVl*"*' : perhaps, or something of the sort. The Greek is, i<T(ftpayl<rdrp-e iKat<fi dya?^2^d(TE(x)s. Ibid.l. 14. UlfP : MS. llUfJE :