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Clement I, Pope, Hermas, active 2nd century, Ignatius, Saint, Bishop of Antioch, Papias, Saint, Bishop of Hierapolis, Polycarp, Saint, Bishop of Smyrna, Crombie, Frederick, Donaldson, James, Sir, and Roberts, Alexander
Source notes
601. Cod. Sin. here has the singular, “one who ruminates.”
602. Literally, “holy age.”
603. Cod. Sin. inserts again, “rightly.”
604. Literally, “should build.”
605. Cod. Sin. has, “confine still more,” corrected to “tremble still more.”
606. Cod. Sin. has, “have dug a pit of death.” See Jer. ii. 12, 13.
607. Comp. Isa.xvi. 1, 2.
608. Literally, “dark.” Cod. Sin. has, “of darkness.”
609. Isa.xlv. 2, 3.
610. Isa.xxxiii. 16. Cod. Sin. has, “thou shalt dwell.”
611. Cod. Sin. entirely omits the question given above, and joins “the water is sure” to the former sentence.
612. Isa.xxxiii. 16-18.
613. Ps. i, 3-6.
614. Cod. Sin. has, “what meaneth?”
615. Zeph.iii. 19.
616. Ezek.xlvii. 12.
617. Omitted in Cod. Sin.
618. Cod. Sin. refers this to God, and not to the prophet.
619. From some unknown apocryphal book. Hilgenfeld compares Hab.ii. 11.
620. Cod. Sin. reads, “He speaks to Moses.”
621. Cod. Sin. omits “and.”
622. Cod. Sin. reads πυγμῆς, which must here be translated “heap” or “mass.” According to Hilgenfeld, however, πυγμή is here equivalent to πυγμαχία, “a fight.” The meaning would then be, that “Moses piled weapon upon weapon in the midst of the battle,” instead of “hill” (πήγης), as above.
623. Thus standing in the form of a cross.
624. Or, as some read, “in the cross.”
625. Isa.lxv. 2.
626. Cod. Sin. has, “and He shall make him alive.”
627. Literally, “the sign.”
628. Comp. Num.xxi. 6-9; John iii. 14-18.
629. Deut.xxvii. 15. Cod. Sin. reads, “molten or graven.”
630. Instead of ἐν δοκῷ, “on a beam,” Cod. Sin. with other MSS. has ἐνδόξως, “manifestly,” which is adopted by Hilgenfeld.
631. Cod. Sin. simply reads, “offer supplication.”
632. Num.xxi. 9.
633. Comp. Col.i. 16.
634. Cod. Sin. has the imperative, “Put on him;” but it is connected as above.
635. Cod. Sin. closes the sentence with Jesus, and inserts, “Moses said therefore to Jesus.”
636. Ex.xvii. 14.
637. Comp. 1 Tim.iii. 16.
638. That is, merely human: a reference is supposed to the Ebionites.
639. Ps.cx. 1; Matt. xxii. 43-45.
640. Cod. Sin. corrects “to Cyrus,” as LXX.