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Appendix C. 325<br />

regarded <strong>from</strong> the first as a canonical <strong>book</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Old Testa-<br />

ment in the <strong>Ethiopic</strong> Church, and thus it was transmitted<br />

with the greatest care and accuracy through successive copies<br />

till the sixteenth century. After this date the text suffered<br />

much <strong>from</strong> ignorant corrections.<br />

vi. In my Introduction (pp. 21, 22) I have treated the<br />

question <strong>of</strong> a Hebrew original as one now practically settled.<br />

In the case <strong>of</strong> chapters i-xxxii this view is now established<br />

beyond the reach <strong>of</strong> controversy. <strong>The</strong> translator has trans-<br />

literated Hebrew words which were not intelligible to him<br />

i.e. in x. 19 juafr7peoi>s="M?P ; in xviii. 8 (fyovKa^^B; in xxviii. 1<br />

and xxix. I p.avbo^apa and (3aftbr)pa=~\'2' 7<br />

!p ; in x. 19 ftarovs<br />

= rfi; in xxxi. 1

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