Testament of Moses

Notes from this edition, separate from the reading. Original source text is retained.

• VII.1: Momento and venient are Charles’s corrections of nomento and veniant. The bracketed portions depend on his restoration (fini)etur and a(lter); the exact relationship between the course and four hours remains uncertain. No historical timetable is inferred.
• VII.2: Charles leaves the numerical passage unrestored in his reading text. The opening cogentur spans n147–149. The manuscript fragments and numeral uncertainty remain in the source layer; this note is not replacement scripture text.
• VII.3: Adopts regnabunt and dicentes in place of manuscript regnarunt and docentes.
• VII.4: Retains manuscript suscitabunt rather than Charles’s opposite-sense concelabunt. Renders the compressed devoratores gulae as the paired epithets suggested by Charles’s punctuation devoratores, gulae; exact grammatical form remains irregular.
• VII.5: No text is invented. The preserved letters and isolated words remain in the aligned manuscript layer.
• VII.6: The possessor “the poor” is Charles’s restoration of …rum. Suam, “their own,” repairs manuscript qu…. Both are editorial readings, not intact manuscript words.
• VII.7: Adopts Charles’s sed ut exterminarent eos for se et exterminatores and his restoration quaeru(losi). Does not require his supplied sole, since east/west can translate the manuscript directly.
• VII.8: Adopts Charles’s potabimus, “we shall drink,” for manuscript putavimus, “we thought.”
• VII.9: Charles joins super and dicent as superdicent, translated “make lofty claims.” In the manuscript layer dicent is retained at the next verse’s first line; reader segmentation follows the explicit numbering of the emended Latin.
• VII.10: Adopts tangere for tange. Brackets identify the object and clause restored by Charles; no remaining fragments are completed.