FOOTNOTES (continued 2)
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Smith, George Adam and Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir
[1339] Cf. Isaiah xl.—lxvi. (Expositor’s Bible), p. 219.
[1340] Why chariot from Ephraim and horse from Jerusalem is explained in Hist. Geog., pp. 329–331.
[1341] See above.
[1342] Symbol of peace as the horse was of war.
[1343] Son of she-asses.
[1344] Mass.: LXX. He.
[1345] Heb. blood of thy covenant, but the suffix refers to the whole phrase (Duhm, Theol. der Proph., p. 143). The covenant is Jehovah’s; the blood, that which the people shed in sacrifice to ratify the covenant.
[1346] Heb. adds there is no water in it, but this is either a gloss, or perhaps an attempt to make sense out of a dittography of מבור, or a corruption of none shall be ashamed.
[1347] Isa. lxi. 7.
[1348]Doctrine of the Prophets, Note A, p. 472.
[1349] 14, on תימן see Eckardt; 15, זויות, Aramaism; כבשׁ is late; 17, התנוסס, only here and Psalm lx. 6; נוב, probably late.
[1350] So LXX.: Heb. reads, thy sons, O Javan.
[1351] LXX. ἐν σάλῳ τῆς ἀπειλῆς αὐτοῦ, in the tossing of His threat, בשער גערו (?) or בשער העדו. It is natural to see here a reference to the Theophanies of Hab. iii. 3, Deut. xxxiii. (see above, pp. 150 f.).
[1352] Perhaps וְיָכְלוּ, overcome them. LXX. καταναλώσουσιν.
[1353] Heb. stones of a sling, אבני קלע. Wellhausen and Nowack read sons, בני, but what then is קלע?
[1354] Reading דמם for Heb. והמו, and roar.
[1355] Heb. like a flock of sheep His people, (but how is one to construe this with the context?) for (? like) stones of a diadem lifting themselves up (? shimmering) over His land. Wellhausen and Nowack delete for stones ... shimmering as a gloss. This would leave like a flock of sheep His people in His land, to which it is proposed to add He will feed. This gives good sense.
[1356] Wellhausen, reading טובה, fem. suffix for neuter. Ewald and others He. Hitzig and others they, the people.
[1357] Of these cf. “Mal.” iii. 5; the late Jer. xliv. 8 ff.; Isa. lxv. 3–5; and, in the Priestly Law, Lev. xix. 31, xx. 6.
[1358]Z.A.T.W., I. 60. He compares this verse with 1 Sam. xv. 23. In Ezek. xxi. 26 they give oracles.
[1359]חזיז, lightning-flash, only here and in Job xxviii. 26, xxxviii. 25.
[1360] LXX. read: in season early rain and latter rain.
[1361]נסעו, used of a nomadic life in Jer. xxxi. 24 (23), and so it is possible that in a later stage of the language it had come to mean to wander or stray. But this is doubtful, and there may be a false reading, as appears from LXX. ἐξηράνθησαν.
[1362] For יענו read וינעו. The LXX. ἐκακώθησαν read וירעו.
[1363] There can therefore be none of that connection between the two pieces which Kirkpatrick assumes (p. 454 and note 2).
[1364]פקד על
[1365]פקד את
[1366] See above, p. 444.
[1367] x. 5, בוס, Eckardt, p. 82; 6, 12, גִּבֵּר, Pi., cf. Eccles. x. 10, where it alone occurs besides here; 5, 11, הבישו in passive sense.
[1368] As we should say, bell-wethers: cf. Isa. xiv. 9, also a late meaning.
[1369] So LXX., reading כי־יפקד for כי־פקד.
[1370]Corner-stone as name for a chief: cf. Judg. xx. 2; 1 Sam. xiv. 38; Isa. xix. 13. Stay or tent-pin, Isa. xxii. 23. From Him, others from them.
[1371] Read בַּגִּבֹּרִים and כְּטִיט (Wellhausen).
[1372] Read וַהֲשִׁבוֹתִים for the Mass. וְהוֹשְׁבוֹתִים, and I will make them to dwell.
[1373]רחמתים and זנחתים, אלהיהם and אענם, keywords of Hosea i.—iii.
[1374] LXX.; sing. Heb.
[1375] Changing the Heb. points which make the verb future. See Nowack’s note.
[1376] With LXX. read וְחִיּוּ for Mass. וְחָיוּ.
[1377] See above, pp. 451, 471.
[1378] So LXX.; Mass. sing.