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VI.

Two Scholia on Genesis XXII. 133628

The Syriac and the Hebrew use the word “suspended,” 3629 as more clearly typifying the cross.

The word Sabek 3630 some have rendered remission3631 others upright3632 as if the meaning, agreeing with the popular belief, were—a goat walking erect up to a bush, and there standing erect caught by his horns, so as to be a plain type of the cross.  For this reason it is not translated, because the single Hebrew word signifies in other languages 3633 many things.  To those, however, who ask it is proper to give an answer, and to say that Sabek denotes lifted up3634


Footnotes

760:3628

In the edition of the LXX. published by Card. Caraffe, 1581.

760:3629

κρεμάμενος.  The Hebrew is זחאנ, the Syriac ***, both meaning simply “caught.”

760:3630

See note on the fragment just before.

760:3631

ἀφεσις.

760:3632

ὄρθιος.

760:3633

Lit. “when translated.”

760:3634

ἐπηρμένος.


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