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Sect. I] Chapters XXIX. \—XXXII. 1 59
of stacte, being like almond trees. 3. And when one burnt
it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
E
XXXTI. 1. And after these
fragrant odours, as I looked
towards the north over the
mountains I saw seven moun-
tains full of choice nard and
fragrant trees and cinnamon
and pepper.
The aloe mentioned here is not ' the
common bitter aloes used in medicine
to which alone the name is given in
classical writers ', nor yet what is commonly
known as the American aloe ;
but ' the modem eagle wood, a precious
wood exportedfrom South- Eastern Asia,
which yields a fragrant odour when
burnt' {Encyc. Bill. i. 120-121). In
Hebrew its form is D'^nN (Num. 24"
Prov. 7") or nibnN (Ps. i5^ Cant. 4"—
in the last pa3s.ige X in the LXX and
Aquila render it by dA.ii?;. In Aramaic
the form is N^nX. All(Ge). Breads
'glkfl corrupt^ for kuSUa = 'all'. Of
stacte. I have with much hesitation
emended ef avTT]s in G^ into arafcTTjs.
E is very corrupt = arepeis, which is
transposed after almond trees. 3.
Burnt. G^ has T/JiiSojffii' ; 'E = Kal3aiaiv,
but jSnas'ewS may be corrupt for
jehasjSwo = TpiPaffiv. If my identifi-
cation of this tree in the note on ver. 2
is right, we should espect icavaojffiv
here, as eagle wood exhales fiagi'ant
odours when burnt. Now rpi^wGLV =
pppT (Pae)) corrupt for [IpPT = «ai5-
awaiv, ' burnt '- It. G^ reads Si6,
which may be corrupt for aird. E =
Toi/ Kapmv. Smelt sweeter (G^).
E = ' was better '.
XXXII. The Earthly Garden of
Eden and the Tree of Knowledge. 1.
XXXII. 1. To the north-
east I beheld seven mountains
full of choice nard and mastic
and cinnamon and pepper.
G'' has lost ' and after these odours ' by
hmt., and reads ' To the NE. I saw
seven mountains '. This statement
that the seven mountains are in the
NE. creates some difficulty, if the text
is correct. And that the text of G^ is
correct seems to follow from the statement
in ver. 2 ' far towards the east ' in
both G^ and E. Tliis being so, it seems
necessary to conclude that the Garden
of Eighteousness in 70' 77' in the NVV.
is distinct from the primitive earthly
Garden of Righteousness or Eden in
the NE., and that the seven mountains
mentioned here in connexion with the
Garden of Righteousness in 31^"^ are dis-
tinct from these mentioned in 18^ 24^ ''i'
For the Garden of Righteousness and
the Seven Mountains, one of which is
the throne of God, are situated in the
NW. The tree of knowledge is in the
earthly Garden of Righteousness in the
NE., 32«-«, and the tree of life among
the Seven Mountains, 24''-25'', in the
NW. Again, it is noteworthy that
whereas the Garden of Righteousness
in 6112 608, 23 g52 70S 773 jg tj^ ^bode
of the departed righteous, the earthly
Garden of Righteousness seems not to
be. A special division in Sheol is
assigned to the souls of the righteous
in 22«. The earthly Garden of Eden,
if the above conclusion is right,