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B. XVIII.<br />

($ )<br />

136<br />

if the manner of his penance (peTxvoix) be greater, so<br />

that (tiWf) every one [<br />

*<br />

( 74?)] adultery ([irop]vefx) [ ],<br />

she shall be<br />

cast forth [according as (KXTK)] at first and they [shall not<br />

communicate (fffv.)] her.<br />

l<br />

( 73 v)- Executioners (&amp;lt;r7rsxou*,Tup)<br />

also, if (-f- ftsv) they<br />

have been baptized (@XTT.) before they had practised (their<br />

craft), shall pass forty days fasting (vyeTsuu); afterward they<br />

shall be communicated And (&amp;lt;rui/.). (ph) if they have not<br />

been baptized (j3x7r.) before [they had practised ]all<br />

] their heresies 2<br />

(? xYpsa-u;), they shall be baptized<br />

(PxTT.) a second time in the church (&.). Hovvbeit (TT^VJV) all<br />

they that present themselves anew 3 shall pass forty days<br />

fasting (w,7T.) and being read to 4 thrice 5<br />

if they have been worthy, let [<br />

P. in. ( 75)-<br />

daily. Afterward,<br />

L 3] of the back (?) [ ] died. And<br />

also his two [sons] did fall by the sword, and the wife also<br />

of Ph[inehas], his son, cast(?) [ ] God [ ]<br />

their passions (xafoq} [ shall] perish even as the [worm<br />

which]<br />

the flame burneth. 7<br />

the altar (9u&amp;lt;r.) [<br />

B. XVI. ( 78).<br />

: &quot;<br />

|Where]fore<br />

then have fear of<br />

the mornjing, but (&M.a) [ ] when the<br />

altar (for.) is prepared, ere it (sc. the sacrament) hath been<br />

raised on high, no voice shall be silent before it, repeating<br />

(itet.srdiu) the word of God or (?) reciting Psalms (^xX^og).<br />

For (yap) it is written, I have set watchmen upon thy<br />

[walls, *<br />

]. Moses said, [ ]<br />

the mill-stone<br />

1 <strong>The</strong> usual meaning for this word, though it is rarely found as synon. of<br />

physicus 1<br />

or a kind of wether-prophet. We have here perhaps a rule like<br />

Can. Hipp. 13, Egypt. Ch. Orel. 41, Test. Dom. II. 2.<br />

Or their husbands. It is difficult to connect the passage with the Ar.<br />

As catechumens. * Cf. Can. Eccl. (Lagarde, A eg.) 45 \<br />

Or three lections. i Sam. IV. 17, 19.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re should be more here, to judge by the lacunae.<br />

Is. LXII. 6. Deut. XXIV. 6. Cf. Crum, Osiraca, no. 270.<br />

<strong>The</strong> following passage has no resemblance to the Arabic, which also, after<br />

78, shows a confused text.

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