Bible studies, contributions chiefly from papyri and ... - Predestination

110 BIBLE STUDIES. [106, 107
it is already found in connection with Egypt in Pajy. Flind.
Petr. i. xvi. 2^ (230 B.C.) : ra jevyjfiaTa tcov virapxcvrmv /mot
TrapaSeiaiop, and in several other passages of the same age.^
yoyyv^co.
Very familiar in the LXX, also in Paul,^ Synopt., John ;
authenticated in the subsequent extra-biblical literature only
by Marcus Aurehus and Epictetus ;
^ but already used in the
sense of murmur in Pap. Flind. Petr. ii. ix. 3^ (241-239 B.C.) :
KoX TO 7rX7]pci)/xa (men) yoyyv^et (f)dfj,evoL ahtKelcrdai.
ypafxixarev'^.
In the 0. T. the person designated scribe (iDD and liotl?)
is generally the official. The LXX translate verbally ypafx-
fiaTeh