CHAPTER II.
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Renouf, P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) and Naville, Edouard
Chapter for Coming forth by day and Living after death.
Oh thou Only One,(1) who shinest from the Moon, let me come forth amid that train(2) of thine, at large,(3) and let me be revealed(4) as one of those in glory.(5)
And when the Tuat is opened to the gods, let N come forth to do his pleasure upon earth amid the Living.
Notes.
This chapter occurs in only two of the ancient MSS. collated by Naville: Ae and Pf. It is also found in the papyrus of Ani.
1.‘unicus,’ the Sole and Only One, is one of the many appellatives of the Sun. He is here represented as shining in or from the Moon. Cf. note on Chapter 132.
2., ‘multitude, throng, train,’ here put for the ‘heavenly host,’ the ἄκριτος ἄστρων ὄχλος (Euripid., Fr. 596), or the Hebrew עבא חשׁמים.
Osiris is , ‘the leader of the host,’ Sharpe, I, 105.
3., אל־מהוץ, foras, ‘forth, out of doors, at large,’ in opposition to enclosure in the tomb.
4., explicare, ‘disclose, unfold, reveal, make clear.’
5. Or ‘among the Glorious ones,’ .