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502 Matthew XIII. 34, 35.
prophet—a name which it was usual to restrict to the persons primarily
so called.) The first half of the verse agrees with the Hebrew
and the LXX., the second, however, varies from both. The words
on;?—is)a nhnih ny^ax are translated by the LXX., (pdiy^oiiai ixQoliXri-
(lara an' dpx/'l?. The words as given by Matthew are so peculiar that
they furnish another argument for the independence of the Greek
text. The phrase dnb KaTaQoXTJg Koofiov^ in the sense of arr' dpx7]g,
does not once occur in the Old Testament ; in the New Testament,
on the contrary, it is very common, Matth. xxv. 34 ; Luke xi. 50 ;
John xvii. 24, and often besides. At the foundation of it lies that
figure which compares the world to a building whose erection commences
with the foundation (KarafSoXi]). Only in this passage, how-
ever, do we find the verb epetJyw, which the LXX. also employ at Ps.
xviii. 2, in translating ?"^3?|7, and which is very commonly used by the
Gnostics to express their emanation-doctrine of the streaming forth
of being. The expressions V'i^, ^^arai/e, ,
and
niT