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they shall not be healed." The Syr. also renders the words, eritus and ingressus; and, if we take the words in this sense, they may allude to the waters of Jordan, which were descriptive of the land of Israel, and had once a miraculous healing virtue in them, see 2 Kings v. 14, but had now lost their efficacy; and, in this corrupted state, represented the reprobate condition of the Jews, who were now only fit for destruc

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13th. Three MSS. with several Marg. have for ; and, if there was no authority to support that reading, ought we not to conclude that this was only the error of the transcribers, when the one is an αяα XeyoμEVOV, and the other appears in innumerable places. See, also,

v. 15.

C. xlviii. 8th. found in v. 10.

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Fifty-four MSS. read, with the Keri, 11, as it is

-as it ap תרומיה instead of תרומה Ought we not to read

pears in this form no where else?

14th. The Sept. reads in the singular and gives all the verbs a passive signification; but, if the first verb is read in the plural, we should, with the other versions, read the rest in the same manner, and several MSS. read the two last in Hiph.

16th. - Thirty-one MSS. with the Keri, omit the third won, which is manifestly redundant, and we should certainly read П, with four MSS. instead of

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18th. Five MSS. have, with the Keri, nan.

19th.-Nineteen MSS. with the Syr. read y in the singular, conformably to the preceding participle.

28th.

Agreeable to twenty-three MSS. we should read, in c. xlvii. appears here.

as it מריבת 19

29th. - Thirty-two MSS. have phne, which is certainly more grammatical.

30th. Twenty-three MSS. give in, which is certainly right. See Ps. Ixviii. 21.

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31st. Would it not be better to read n, conformably to the following verses, which is justified by several MSS. and other places?

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CRITICAL REMARKS

UPON

DANI E L.

C. i. 1st. Forty-four MSS. read □wn, which is the true reading.

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.אדני יהוה Fifteen MSS, have

We should render D, with the Sept. "youths, or young

render,

.ועל כל האשפים One MS. has

C. viii. 3d. Forty-five MSS. read , see v. 2; and, in v. 6, thirty-seven MSS, have .

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14th. Should we not read pa, "the evening and the morning." See v. 26 and the versions,

C. ix. 3d,

Ten MSS. read instead of 8 in this verse, and

twenty-two in the next.

5th. The Sept. and other versions read 70," and we have turned away from thy commandments," &c. and this seems to be the true reading.

11th.

They also read 1701 instead of 10, and that is evidently the best reading.

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for * למענך יהוה or אדני The Sept. Vulg. and Ar, read

.לשמך The Syr. reads

thine own sake, O Jehovah:" and this seems to be justified from v. 19.

18th.

Twenty-eight MSS. have po with the Keri. The might

be prefixed to the next word.

24th. Thirty-nine MSS. read, with the Keri, nn, and eightytwo, with the Sept. and Vulg. non," and to make an end of sin:" and these readings seem to be preferable. And might we not read, likewise, on in the second place," and to complete the vision and the prophecy;" in the person of Christ, in whom all the visions and prophecies, from Abraham to Malachi, were fulfilled?

25th. Seventy MSS. read , and one supplies the word n

ירושלם before

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27th. Might we not render the latter part of this verse thus; “and because of the wing, or through the wing, by, of abominations, he shall make desolate even unto utter destruction; and that which is de

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termined shall be poured out upon the desolate:" the wing of abomina-
tions alluding probably to the wings of the eagle, painted on the Roman
standards; and that which is determined may perhaps refer to that pre-
diction of the prophet, c. viii. 11, 12, which, as the learned Bishop
Newton observes, is applicable to the Roman empire, and was farther
ratified by our Saviour's prophecy, Matt. xxiv. 2, and literally fulfilled
by Turnus Rufus. But, one MS. of note, instead of
b

,ובהיכל יהיה שיקוץ reads

"and in the temple shall be the abomination of desolation;" which reading is countenanced by the Sept. and seems to be still farther authorised by our blessed Lord's words, Matt. xxiv. 15. And this last reading puts an end to all the difficulties which have arisen about the sense of the word . See Poole's Synopsis on the place in Dan. and Matt. xxiv. See, also, c. xi. 31, together with Kennicott and Randolph.

C. xi. 8th. Twelve MSS. have '', which is more grammatical.

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10th. Twenty-six MSS. read, with the Keri, ", which the context requires. One MS. has an", which seems to be the right reading. Should we not read 2' 121? See v. 13.

30th. Thirty-one MSS. give p' in the first place.

31st.

33d.

One MS. transposes a pan, which seems to be right.

.and nine MSS ;ובלבה instead of ובמלחמה One MS. has ימים after רבים read

37th. It strikes me, that, instead of non, (though these words, supposing them to relate to Antiochus, or Antichrist, will afford

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