Testament of Moses

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

• X.1: Adopts Charles’s tristitia and abducetur, “taken away,” for manuscript tristitiam and adducetur, “brought.”
• X.2: Adopts future erit and vindicabit. “Hands will be filled” remains literal; the idiom may express commission or authority.
• X.3: Exurget is Charles’s completion of …get. Charles marks cum indignationem et iram as corrupt; English renders the recognizable prepositional sense without reconstructing earlier languages.
• X.4: Retains the readable manuscript image of falling valleys rather than adopting Charles’s change to hills.
• X.5: Retains manuscript moon’s horns rather than Charles’s reordered sun/moon clauses. The understood noun moon is repeated in English for clarity; the present convertit is retained. The irregular spelling conturvavitur is interpreted as conturbabitur.
• X.6: Adopts decedet, et fontes and exarescent for decedit, ad fontes and expavescent. “Dry up” is a critical reading; the manuscript literally says “be terrified.”
• X.7: Adopts future exurget for exurgit; no substantive change to the titles or objects.
• X.8: Retains manuscript et alas despite Charles’s deletion brackets. Supplies only Charles’s explicit dies luctus tui, shown in English brackets. Cervices is conventionally plural in Latin; English neck is singular.
• X.9: Adopts future altabit for altavit. Charles himself marks loco habitationis eorum corrupt; it is retained as a literal phrase rather than relocating it.
• X.10: Adopts conspicies, videbis and ages as regular future forms. Rejects Charles’s substantive conjecture Ge(henna), retaining manuscript terram, “earth.”
• X.11: Conventional proper-name normalization of Jesu Naue. Latin filius is not explicit here; no change of person is intended.
• X.12: Uses Charles’s receptione m(ea), with supplied possessive bracketed. The unit remains “periods”; no years/weeks calculation is inferred. Quae fient is expressed by the English future rather than repeated as “which will be.”
• X.13: Supplies Charles’s erit and adopts convenient for conveniunt. “Follow” is a contextual interpretation of the otherwise unusual convenient; the Latin clause remains uncertain.
• X.14: Adopts eam for manuscript eram. The sleep-of-the-fathers metaphor is retained.
• X.15: Adopts firma for forma and brackets Charles’s supplied confortare et and nam te. Son of Nun is conventional normalization of Nave, without an explicit filius here.