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    Two Scholia on Genesis XXII. 13.3628

    3628 In the edition of the LXX. published by Card. Caraffe, 1581.

    The Syriac and the Hebrew use the word “suspended,”3629

    3629 κρεμάμενος.  The Hebrew is זחאנ, the Syriac ***, both meaning simply “caught.”

    as more clearly typifying the cross.

    The word Sabek3630

    3630 See note on the fragment just before.

    some have rendered remission,3631

    3631 ἀφεσις.

    others upright,3632

    3632 ὄρθιος.

    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 languages3633

    3633 Lit. “when translated.”

    many things.  To those, however, who ask it is proper to give an answer, and to say that Sabek denotes lifted up.3634

    3634 ἐπηρμένος.

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