Vol. I - The Coptic Orthodox Church

Introduction, xxvii
Egyptians, and whose language is substantially the same as that
of the ancient Egyptians, arranged their Vocabularies in this way,
they must be reproducing a system that had been in use among
their remote ancestors thousands of years earlier. Champollion-
Figeac accepted his brother's arguments, and arranged the words
of the Dictionary according to the order of the Sign-list composed
by him, and printed in his earlier work.
The following paragraph will explain the general system of The Coptic
arranging words in a Coptic Vocabulary, the common native names
for which are JW.OTKI or JULOKI, and 6"Xo(T or cTXootf~e , i.e. Scala,
" steps " or " stair." A typical example of such a Scala is given
in the bilingual Coptic and Arabic MS. in Brit. Mus. Orient 1325,
fol. 90 ff, 1 where we find the Scala Magna (Copt, 'fnicg'f 1&- JULOKI,
Arab, juln J)
of Ibn Kabr. 2
It is divided into ten Gates or The Ten Gates
and each gate contains several
of the
Chapters "Scala."
Doors (po= <
), |
(Ke4>A.Xeon) . The First Gate (fol. goA) contains four Chapters.
The First Chapter gives the names of the Creator, nipi.it tvre
npeqctoirr, the names of the Son from the Holy Scriptures, and
the names of the Holy Spirit. The Second Chapter gives the
names of the world which is above, nKocJUtoc exc