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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 (&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 (&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&lt;r.) [<br />
B. XVI. ( 78).<br />
: "<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.