Ethiopic Didascalia

Platt historical English notes, source page 170

NOTES. P. 104. 1. 2. >»gnoj^9nAYi : MS.TkTnAlf : Ibid. ?i9n;}iraO' : Literally, "their salutations." The expression appears to cor- respond to the Greek words irav^yvpets, avixTzocrta, and I have translated it accordingly. Ibid. 1. 10. GJfllU' ■ MS. ^TVyi • But all the pronouns and verbs afterwards are masculine ; so that it seems necessary to make this masculine too. Ibid, antepenult. Tll-fl : ?iVin.^ : YvtiTCjFxP^ ■ The Greek is, (jo^iav Ttfi^aaaa -nporfxdr). The meaning of the last word, ?iflTC?iP'1' = i* is not easy to determine. The verb IhiWCjfyV ■ is used both in a transitive and in a neuter sense. The latter seems best to suit the construction here, and it corresponds more closely with the Greek. But then the usual and more simple meaning of the verb, " hath appeared," will not do : it must signify, " hath been made conspicuous," " honourable," or something of the sort. And this sense therefore I have ventured to give it in the translation. P. 105. 1. 1. U^^P: MS. uVl^ : Ibid. 1.3. ^ffl) : H^».1^'Y : '\&^'T'- I do not understand the construction here, but have left the passage as I found it ; for a slight alteration, as writing It"!- : or If'f : for Tnl : , will not remedy the defect; the pronoun H being singular, as well as the verb. Ibid, antepenult. TJV'^'^ "• MS. T?t.i^T : In p. 107. 1. 1. it is correctly written, l?*""^^ : But see below, note on p. 109. penult. P. 106. 1. 2. The Greek Text here does not condemn second marriages as contrary to Scripture, but says expressly that the woman shall give account of herself to God, " not because she hath been married a second time, but because she hath waxed wanton against Christ (1 Tim. v. 11.), and hath not kept her promise.^'' ETrayyeKla has here again been incorrectly translated ^YkWH : " commandment." See above, on p. 50. 1. 4. Exactly the same doctrine is laid down in the passage of the Greek Text that corresponds to p. 107. 1. 6. ; where indeed it is rather more accurately, though still obscurely, expressed in the Ethiopic Version. Ibid. 1. 5. ?i.JPTTIP't"T : None of the common significations of this word seem to suit the sense of this passage. I have therefore conjecturally given it the meaning of "naming," "nominating to an office," q.d. "to read aloud the name of a person, pro- claiming his appointment." rt9"*^ : I have translated " promised ; " as it is sometimes used for " testifying," "bearing witness ;" and both the Greek Text, and the sense of the passage, show that it must have some such meaning here. Ibid. 1. 11. YvitC : MS. v^Q : It is hflC. : in the Ethiopic Version, Luc. ii. 36. Ibid. 1. 12. rtTI*^T : \l^1^'V ■ J^TIA : ^"Kt : I have here given the sense which the Ethiopic Text appears to convey. It differs from the account of this prophetess given in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke, which the Greek Text of the Constitutions accurately repeats. P. 107. 1. 3. "AilflTIs : MS. "Koo-TIs :