Testament of Moses

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

• VIII.1: Follows Charles’s restored opening (al)te(ra); he excludes the preceding broken manuscript opening in plebem quae s..a. illis. Adopts suscitabit, potentatem and suspendet. The lost opening remains in the manuscript layer and is not claimed recoverable.
• VIII.2: Adopts celantes for necantes; the object is supplied from the preceding circumcision clause and is bracketed. Tradidit, retained by Charles as a future-like narrative perfect, is rendered with the surrounding future in this reading layer; the exact past form remains in the manuscript layer.
• VIII.3: Adopts Charles’s (in), omits duplicated pueri, and reads acrobistiam for acrosisam. “Make them uncircumcised” expresses inducere acrobistiam (“bring uncircumcision upon them”); this sense is editorial, not a secure reading of the corrupt manuscript word. Secabantur is normalized from past imperfect to the surrounding prediction in the reading layer.
• VIII.4: Uses Charles’s inquinata for iniquinata. The irregular quomodo sunt pariter continentibus ea is read as comparing the idols’ defilement with that of their holders. The comparison is grammatically uncertain; the text does not independently assert that the victims carry the idols together with their holders.
• VIII.5: Uses Charles’s transposition leges et for et leges and carries “blaspheme” into the final coordinated objects. “Hidden place” remains nonspecific; no temple identification is added.