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SHOES
SHOSHANNIM
o.iv, (which these versions prc%ppore, and which the Heb. text given in EV-' whose shoes I am not worthy to bear' ;
of Ecclor. actuillly hi3 is r corruption of mi*. (Mic. 7 j), which the second expression ought to expand and amplify the
must have becn the original reading in IS. 12+ [Che.].i first. The 'mighty one' that 'cometh' is neither God
(d) We hare already alluded to Ruth 4, f (see 6). : (1s. 531f) nor the iMrsrinh : he ii a warrior, and we
,A man pulled off (?>$) his shoe,' we read. .and have I do not expect the prophetic narrator to condescend to
it his oeighbour. to indicate ,f rights, met~tiun his sandals. Not his sandals but his weapons
~ ~ (LATW f 39s) f that ~ the shoe, ~ being ~ must ~ be referred to. and the speaker may be expected
part the was passed on to the buyer as to 5.l). :hat he is not mighty enough himself to wear. or
an ntte~tvtion of his right. Cp RUTH, and for an , to bear. the warrior's armour ; bnod+uara must have
.%rabian paullrl, references in TRADE, 5 82e
I displaced a word meaning arnrour, and ixolvdr must
(s).
(I) similarly, in theceremony for freeing the hushanflr 1 mean. not &Ear (' lvorrhy'l. but 'strong enough.' A
brother from the duty of the levirate marriage ( ~t. 259) probable remedy at once suggests ifself. The Passage
his was in token of renunciation.2 SO in 1 "lay have been written in Hebrew. and o+y?. 'shoes.'
a Bedouin divorcethe hurbandra).s ; ' shewasmyrLigprr have been misread foi c.iP,' weapon^.' '~ead?@n
alld I cast her off' (WRS Kin$. 269). The renuncia- v>~ nxe 71jL12, whoieweapollr lam too punyto bear.'
tior, of the brother was conridered contemptible: hence - .
The passage is now surely worthier of the second Elijah.
the spat in his face, or, as the explain
removed b; I who did in fact both carry and wield the sword of the
in his presence, So, the shw war not
Mighty one.-T' K. '1 '. A-s A' '.-" K' ''
the brother himself, but by the woman, in token that he
was abandoning a privilege ar u,ell as a duty. Note ~HO- (D?&, 9 ; Ic[c]oAM [BA], IEc.
the phrase in Ut. 25ro, 'the house of the unsandalled
CAM [L]), a I.evite, b. Merari (I Ch. 24 q)t. The
one' (by*, yripn'n). Cp FAMILY, KINSHIP.
name is of interest, having possibly come by trans-
(f) Sandals iere put on the feet of the prodigal son position of letters from n*. ' Mores.' Cp Mosrs, § 2.
on his restoration to favour (Lk. 1522). It would seem.
T. K. C.
the,,, that in the time of Jesus, sandals were not worn
by the iowest class. he sandals of the rich could no SHOMEB. 5. (172~ : cw~wp [Bl. P: wc [A]:
doubt be sumptuous, like those of the ladies of Egypt CBMMHP [L]: the name appears as lQW, SHEMER
(Wilk. Anc. Eg. 2116). Cp Cant. 7.. Judith 101 169. [gv] in I Ch. 734), fatherof J ~~ozneno. r (2 K. 1Z2~).
[Havingconsiderednveryabrcurearrdf~miliarparsage 1" . ~ h 24& . the form is n.?~, SHIMRITH (aoFarwe
of a psalm (608[ro]) and a not perfectly satisfactory [B]: oapap~e [A]; aalrrpapv0 iL]).
phraseinaprophecy (Is. 95 [r]), wenow
6. Difficult NT approach
more sacred 1 uJp; ~QFP. aruuvp [El. swlr?~ [ALIJ. a
2.
references. wh,ch is
underslightly
name
in a genealogy of ASHER [q.u.. 5 4, ii.]. I Ch.
forms in all the four gospels. Thereare the four versions I
I" 34 RV [p.~..'1 i~!?)-
of the Baptisrr word5 :-
SHOPEACH (;~Q\v I Ch. 1916-18. in 2 S. 10 16-18
hlt. 3rr. He that cometh airer me is mightier than I,
SHOBACH.
whose shoes I am not sufficient (RVmE) to bear.
Mk. 11. There cometh after me he that is mightier SHOP-. see ATROTH-SHOPHAN.
than 1, the latchet of whose shoes I am not sufficient
(RVmc) to stoop down and unlwre.
SHOSEANNIM ; SHOSWNIM-EDUTH ; SEW-
Lk. 316, There cometh he that is mightier than I, the S--EDUTH, UPON (p93@jy; p*2&$
latchet of whose shoes I am not sufficient (RVma) to
uni00se.
Mlp: n$lp ;v&u); phrases found in the respective
Jn. I.,, He that cometh after me-thelatchet ofwhore headings of Pss. 45 69 80 and 00 in A" ; RV for
shoe 1 am not worthy to unloose.
'Upon' gives 'set to' and in mg. renderr 'lilies.'
The difficulty is twofold, What doer the *lilies, a testimony,' and 'the lily of testimony.' As
$hoes. (rb bro6i)pra Baard,,a,) mean? and how came / in the care of other enigmatical element3 of psalmthe
other traditional form of wordr into existence, which headings, Shoshannim and Shoshannim (or Shushan)
the latchet, for
the I Eduth are often tnken to be the catchwordr of a song,
I
shoes ' f
to the air of which the psalm which followed was to be
(I) B. Wehs(1S76) ,he in MC., .crrrying thr sung (= already Ibn Ezn).= The 'testimony'
sandals sirer him : n, too, Holrrminn who dexrlbcr a as a the law?) might be compared to lilies. Others (e.5.
consrzzt duty of thc lave, thus SPntraidng with the occnrrunel l.hrupp) think ,f a instrument in ,he shape of
duty oi unloosing ,he marterr randaia,on hi3 Terurn home.
T~CCC however to be no emdcnce that tho= who a lily, or (Rashi, strangely) with six strings, while
chow ("ot ir mourn;rs) to ~alk barefoot hsd their others (GrBtz: Haupt in . Pnn.' SBOT. Eng.. p. 18~)
carried rfter them than for the carrying of a washpot behlnd il
kin= when he rrnvellcd above). (3) The change from par.
,drc *iaa, ricrlbed by Snrro, I,) and
Chrjer ( ~ ~ ~ k ~ ~ S) to ~ the t ~ freedom d r m of a . tmnslator. BF~.
tholct (lleyer JmrM=ltrrrprochr. 14o)preferr lo look for ronke
Semitic word'wllich, rhrourh heing m!runderrtood, could be
rendered in two different way,. He rhtnks that Mk. and Lk.
pivc the right rendedng of j.,,~ ipwDi, which M,., not in.
excusbly,
unfortunately, ar Nenle (i.~.)
remarkr, ipvn5 cannot mean 'ro unloose.'
We must look moredeeply intothetext of the Baptist's
sermon as given in Mt. It in largely composed of
phrases which occur or might occur in the OT, and
render the phrase 'with Surian instrumentn,'
aL 'dLZnr#fh='with Elamite instruments' (7) in the
headings of two psalms close to Pr. 45. That the
Surianr are called Susanchiter (?) in Ezra 49, may not
be decisive view, B~~ why surian
instruments be mentioned as well as Elamite? A
similar hypothesis with regard to Gittith is rejected elrewhere
( Grrn~~) as untenable, and our experience both
with Gittith and with other strange words in pralmheadingr
leads 11s to suspect textual error. wand n %ere
easily confounded in pronunciation. and letters neie