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Testament of Moses
Testament of Moses — Helpful Saints Literal Translation (Latin witness; incomplete ancient text)
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Testament of Moses XII
XII.1 And after Joshua finished his words, he again fell at Moses’ feet. XII.2 Moses took his hand and raised him into a chair before him. He answered and said: XII.3 “Joshua, do not despise yourself. Be confident and pay attention to my words. XII.4 God created all the nations in the world, as he created us. He foresaw them and us from the beginning of the world’s creation until the end of the age. Nothing has been neglected by him, down to the smallest thing; he foresaw everything and brought all things forward. XII.5 [And] the Lord foresaw all things that were to happen in this world, and look, it is brought [to light]. XII.6 [The Lord] appointed me on their behalf, that for their sins [I might pray] and [implore] on their behalf. XII.7 For it was not because of my strength or weakness; rather, his mercy and patience came to me with gentleness. [The construction is uncertain.] XII.8 For I tell you, Joshua: it is not because of this people’s piety that you will drive out the nations. XII.9 The lights of heaven and the foundations of the world were made and approved by God, and they are under the ring of his right hand. XII.10 Therefore those who do and fulfill God’s commands will grow and pass through a good life. XII.11 But those who sin and neglect the commands will lack the good things that were foretold, and will be punished by the nations with many torments. XII.12 For it cannot happen that he should utterly destroy and abandon them. XII.13 For God will go out, who foresaw all things for the ages. His covenant and oath have been established, which— [The surviving text ends here.]
Source notes · Testament of Moses XII
Notes from this edition, separate from the reading. Original source text is retained.
- XII.1: No substantive critical reading needed.
- XII.2: The historical present prendit is rendered as English narrative past. Latin spelling and tense remain in the source layer.
- XII.3: Uses Charles’s Jesu, te ne in place of manuscript iesus et ne; the reflexive object “yourself” is therefore a critical reading.
- XII.4: Uses Charles’s orbe, ut nos, usque ad and promovit cuncta in place of ore, et nos, ut ad and provovit cum eis. “Brought forward” translates promovit without specifying a theory of creation or providence.
- XII.5: Brackets show Charles’s supplements Et and in lucem. Affertur is his emendation of aufertur. The subject of it is implicit; the text’s transition to the next verse remains damaged.
- XII.6: All bracketed expressions depend on Charles’s explicitly supplied words in the gaps; ut is his change from et. The entire verbal reconstruction is provisional and is not a recoverable verbatim manuscript sentence.
- XII.7: Retains manuscript infirmitatem, weakness, rather than adopting Charles’s deletion of in-. English gives the intelligible lexical relation of mercy/patience/arrival but the genitive misericordiae and comparative temperantius remain grammatically uncertain. No conjectured Hebrew sentence or divine calling is inserted.
- XII.8: Exterminabis is rendered drive out; no substantive critical reading needed.
- XII.9: Uses Charles’s lumina, fundamenta, et probata and annulo for manuscript omnia, firmamenta, ut provata and nullo. “Ring” is a critical conjecture, not an intact manuscript reading. English “and” coordinates the two noun groups.
- XII.10: Uses Charles’s Dei, crescent, vitam and exigent for manuscript ei, crescunt, viam and exigunt. “Life” rather than “road” is a substantive critical reading.
- XII.11: Uses Charles’s carebunt bona for manuscript carere bonam and gives the irregular opening participles the obvious subject function in English.
- XII.12: Retains manuscript relinquat, abandon, rather than Charles’s extinguat. English supplies the conjunction that required by the sentence’s sense; the source has no physical gap here.
- XII.13: Uses Charles’s exibit for exivit and jusjurandum for jurejurando. The sentence is incomplete after quod; no lost ending is reconstructed.
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