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340 BIBLE STUDIES. [256
Letronne/ written in reference to a passage in the Inscrip-
tion of Rosetta to be noticed presently.
The difficulty, nevertheless, can be removed. But
certainly not by simply referring, as does 0. F. Fritzsche,^
to the passages LXX Hagg. 1\ 2\ Zech. 1^ 7\ 1 Mace.
13 *^ 14 2^ to which may be added LXX Zech. 1 \ for, all
these passages being translations of Semitic originals, the eVi
might be a mere imitation of 7, and would thus yield nothing
decisive for the idiom of the Prologue to Sirach, which was in
Greek from the first. The following passages seem to the
present writer to be of much greater force. In an Inscription
from the Acropolis,^ as old as the 3rd cent. B.C., we find in
line 24 f. the words lepev'i y€v6/jL€vo