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1 [Title] | Vol. 1 Introduction, p. (10):~[Short lacunae are indicated
2 [Title](12)| 6 See Exod. iv 11, and Overbeck, p. 150, 1.
3 [Title](4) | and Overbeck, p. 123, 1. 12. ~
4 [Title](4) | 1. 34, and Overbeck, p. 123, 1. 12. ~
5 [Title](7) | 1 See Deut. xxii 13 ff. Aa begins ' For it is . . .' ~
6 [Title](1) | the monk Aaron (B.M. Add. 14623, foll. 23a1-25a1) from the
7 [Title](12)| iv 11, and Overbeck, p. 150, 1. 20 : cf. also Deut.
8 [Title](23)| s Comm. on Genesis (ES 1 15A), where it is used of the
9 [Title] | DISCOURSE ON VIRGINITY.~[p. 170.] ~
10 II | His habitation ; do [P. 171.] not let dwell instead
11 V | adultery under the Law, [P. 172.] and the Peoples who fornicated
12 IX | are apprehension and [P. 173.] doubt and contempt with
13 XIV | does not immediately [P. 175.] a man has sinned requite
14 XVII | seeth secret things, [P. 176.] to thy secret Lord in
15 XIX | time of sheep-shearing. [P. 177.] ~
16 XXIII | are they requited. For [P. 178.] Shechem,13 who met with
17 XXVI | saw she had lost her [P. 179.] virginity. She got a tunic
18 XXVIII | snatched the tokens of [P. 180.] virginity. The thief knows
19 XXXI | afresh become new salt. [P.181]
20 XXXIV | likeness of doors that [P. 182.] were sealed with the blood
21 XXXVII | from the virginity that [P. 183.] by grace has revived our
22 XL | it disgraced Noah the [P. 184.] precious; and he that
23 XLIII | will have left thee [P. 185.] because thou hast left
24 XLV | the cane. Admonition [P. 186.] is to him a story, and
25 XLVII | into a good harbour [P. 187.] it struggles with its
26 LI | become precious, yea, are [P. 188.] revered by reason of the
27 LIV | holy, as Sarah also [P. 189.] was holy in the unclean
28 [Title](12)| and Overbeck, p. 150, 1. 20 : cf. also Deut. xxii 27. ~
29 [Title](18)| 3 Exod. xii 21 ff. ~
30 [Title](22)| Aenon near Salim" (John iii 23), where syr. C-vg. have '
31 [Title](1) | B.M. Add. 14623, foll. 23a1-25a1) from the old MS. before
32 [Title](13)| 1 Gen. xxxiv 2, 25 f. ~
33 [Title](12)| 20 : cf. also Deut. xxii 27. ~
34 [Title](16)| 1 Judges xi 30 ff : syr.vg also has 'Nephtah'
35 [Title](4) | 1 See p. 35, 1. 34, and Overbeck, p. 123, 1.
36 [Title](4) | 1 See p. 35, 1. 34, and Overbeck, p.
37 [Title](12)| 6 See Exod. iv 11, and Overbeck,
38 [Title](20)| Hellenistic-Jewish Texts, No. 7). In this tale, though both
39 [Title](2) | 2 See Col. iii 9. ~
40 XLIX | concentrated its intelligence ; men abhor it seeing the blemishes
41 [Title](22)| 1 Dove] 'Fish,' Aa. This absurd blunder is of interest,
42 XVI | sins. O Body, if thou hast accustomed thyself to repent and again
43 VIII | Adam, who with his money acquired a weight of debt. O Body,
44 VIII | impoverished the treasures of great Adam, who with his money acquired
45 [Title](1) | by the monk Aaron (B.M. Add. 14623, foll. 23a1-25a1)
46 XLV | disregarded is the cane. Admonition [P. 186.] is to him a story,
47 [Title](1) | being almost all due to the adoption of a more modern style of
48 XLIX | contest, that a crown may adorn thy Old Age ; for when Old
49 XXXVIII | friend Desire, that is the adversary of Virginity. Joseph persecuted
50 XX | Moses the Stammerer,12 the advocate of truth, he is persuaded
51 [Title](22)| transliteration into Syriac of "Aenon near Salim" (John iii 23),
52 [Title](20)| beauty and virtue, yet the affair ends in a real marriage,
53 XXXI | which if it go bad cannot afresh become new salt. [P.181]
54 | against
55 LII | it has become hateful and aged those that see despise it. ~
56 XLI | it is an impostor and an agitator that surrenders thy fortress,
57 XXVII | virginity that was ruined. Ah, the confusion and dismay
58 XXV | he asked her for tarts 14—alas for the expert in tarts !—
59 | almost
60 IX | much the deed is dead, the anxiety of it lives secretly. ~
61 [Title](10)| virginity and do not,' Aa. Apparently a mere scribes' blunder,
62 V | Nature ; Nature and Law have appealed against him, whose dispositions
63 XXV | serpent was clothed in the appearance of sickness that the hand
64 VII | the deceiver, for he who apportions debt to the inexperienced
65 XVIII | lamb the cunning Amnon 11 approached the ewe, and when he had
66 [Title] | words. In respect to this an approximately correct inference may be
67 II | Body, new in water, and the Architect of Life has built thy oldness,
68 LIV | compulsion of the captor argues for thee that thou art holy,
69 [Title] | attempt to summarise the argument from suggestions in the
70 XLVII | become a great sea ; and lo, arguments plunge and emerge,23 like
71 XXXII | the treasure on high it ascended ; the girl that stretched
72 VIII | borrow from him that does not ask back what he has lent, that
73 XXV | XXV. For he asked her for tarts 14—alas for
74 XIX | XIX. That Athlete who saw that as long as
75 [Title] | mutilation, italics indicate an attempt to summarise the argument
76 XIII | become dead. It is given authority that by its will faults
77 [Title](1) | copied out by the monk Aaron (B.M. Add. 14623, foll. 23a1-25a1)
78 X | those that drink it; it babbles in their voices instead
79 XI | of his. snare food as a bait; his love goes in front
80 XXXII | washed in her blood was baptized and she sent up from herself
81 [Title] | or asterisks intended to bear any exact relation to the
82 XLVI | for the words that have beaten upon his ears. The gates
83 [Title](7) | See Deut. xxii 13 ff. Aa begins ' For it is . . .' ~
84 V | changed their Nature and behaved contrary to their Nature ;
85 | behind
86 X | free-men into slavery. The belly he has bribed and it has
87 [Title] | seem to be quotations or to belong to a special terminology.~
88 X | sorts (of means) he will be bestowing his gifts upon the good.
89 | between
90 XXXVII | quickly takes up on high the bird of the height, that grows
91 [Title](1) | original it is found to bo quite faithful, the few
92 LIV | will was a priest to her bodily frame, and with its hyssop
93 VIII | of debt. O Body, do not borrow from him that does not ask
94 LIII | Age convicts them, that a borrowed beauty was dwelling upon
95 XLVII | heaped and choked up are the bosoms of his imaginations from
96 XXXIV | therefore the unique Blood bought the virgin blood with which
97 [Title] | in italics inside square brackets are to be regarded as conjectural
98 LII | Youthfulness is like a branch of fine fruits that is fair
99 XXII | forth into the field, the brigand Shechem robbed thy treasure.
100 XIX | fell, and so threw off and broke the yoke with cohabitation,
101 [Title](20)| Joseph and Asenath (E. W. Brooks, The Book of Joseph and
102 XII | burn the substance that brought it to life by its companionship.
103 XXXVII | because she cannot turn and build it her wing quickly takes
104 XII | demonstration for thee, that is buried and dead in secret, and
105 XII | come to life it turns to burn the substance that brought
106 [Title](20)| Joseph and Asenath, S.P.C.K., Hellenistic-Jewish Texts,
107 [Title](22)| John iii 23), where syr. C-vg. have 'En Yon, while syr.
108 [Title](14)| Peshitta has the same word for 'cakes' and 'hearts.' ~
109 XLV | and disregarded is the cane. Admonition [P. 186.] is
110 XLI | surrenders thy fortress, that the captive-taker may come and take captive
111 LIV | unclean compulsion of the captor argues for thee that thou
112 IV | reprove the rebels, they care for and heal those who return :
113 LI | nailed-up Tablets that the carpenter has constructed and the
114 XXVIII | daughter on whose limbs were carried stones and beryls, but the
115 [Title] | commas are used in numerous cases where the words seem to
116 [Title](12)| Overbeck, p. 150, 1. 20 : cf. also Deut. xxii 27. ~
117 LIV | LIV. But if there should chance to be a royal captivity,
118 V | fornicated without Law, changed their Nature and behaved
119 L | paint on thy hands all charitable acts, with the visiting
120 IX | are open and pure of the chaste ones who have put it (?
121 [Title](1) | Where the transcript can be checked by the still legible portions
122 XLIX | blemishes of its Body, but they cherish it seeing its secret plants
123 XXX | whose words are sweet ; she cherished him with love, and he smote
124 XLVII | For filled and heaped and choked up are the bosoms of his
125 XXXI | his bread, and thou art chosen salt, which if it go bad
126 [Title](15)| 1 A new paragraph should clearly begin here, but it does
127 XLII | everything, it does not cleave to thee, and then the regret
128 I | conduct, that it may not clothe thee in (bad) habits. ~
129 XXV | at heart: the serpent was clothed in the appearance of sickness
130 XXVIII | the pearl, he rejected the coin-ornaments and snatched the tokens
131 [Title](2) | 2 See Col. iii 9. ~
132 XIV | requite him. Wherefore regret comes because of two things :
133 XXXV | sprinkling it and (as) it comforted them much by its protection,
134 [Title](23)| phrase occurs in Ephraim's Comm. on Genesis (ES 1 15A),
135 LIV | with her free-will did not commit adultery; her will was a
136 V | the People (of Israel) who committed adultery under the Law, [
137 IV | every hour ; they also are companions to every one, and are fresh
138 XII | brought it to life by its companionship. Oh, the evident illustration !—
139 XLVIII | courses (of life), do not complete [thy] courses in the maze
140 LIV | in the field, the unclean compulsion of the captor argues for
141 I | Put it off 3 by (good) conduct, that it may not clothe
142 XXVII | that was ruined. Ah, the confusion and dismay of the king's
143 [Title](10)| 4 'and do not' (conj.)] 'virginity,' Palimpsest (
144 [Title] | brackets are to be regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.~
145 XL | lonely one, how it will conquer ! ~
146 [Title] | footnotes to the end. Those consisting of "Read [syriac] for [syriac]"
147 XLII | one, when thou hast the consolation that even if thou hast lost
148 XXVII | hanging on her could not console her for the one that was
149 XXXII | the sword, the pure pearl consoled her that went with her.
150 LI | Tablets that the carpenter has constructed and the painter painted
151 [Title] | inference may be drawn by consulting the Syriac text.~Double
152 XLV | passes through his ears ; contemptuous usage is like a treat and
153 XXV | sickness that the hand might contemptuously spare him and so he might
154 LIII | carry them, but Old Age convicts them, that a borrowed beauty
155 [Title](1) | whole of this Discourse was copied out by the monk Aaron (B.M.
156 [Title] | to this an approximately correct inference may be drawn by
157 XI | love goes in front of his corruption, like Judas, who kissed
158 V | and Law declaring his evil corruptions ! For the People (of Israel)
159 I | thee out : O Body, hear my counsels ! Put it off 3 by (good)
160 XXXVII | by grace has revived our country, and as a sojourner dwells
161 XXVI | whose reparation for the Creator of all alone is easy ! ~
162 XX | about her that "the girl cried out and there is no help."
163 XLIII | thee and left thee at the cross-roads ; and whither then will
164 [Title] | l.2] means line 2 of the current page of the accompanying
165 XIII | live ; and if from it thou cut and cast them off they become
166 XIX | yoke with cohabitation, and dared even to adultery, and the
167 [Title](1) | of the piece to the Hymns de Virginitate, printed at
168 XI | sleep, the desire of whom is deadly. And thy own flesh makes
169 XI | Body, if thou give life to deadness, there will be death also
170 XLII | because his love is lying and deceitful and alights on everything,
171 XVIII | wolf that made himself ill deceitfully made her enter his den and
172 XVII | parents shall go forth and declare her virginity, because the
173 IX | of which however much the deed is dead, the anxiety of
174 LIV | purged the body that was defiled by force. For as a priest
175 XL | he that had conquered the Deluge of water from a handful
176 XIX | the sheep, vengeance was demanded in the time of sheep-shearing. [
177 XII | XII. Let Fire be a demonstration for thee, that is buried
178 XVIII | deceitfully made her enter his den and so trapped her ; the
179 XLIII | side and on that thou art deserted and art orphaned on two
180 LII | face from it, and what was desired of all becomes the despised
181 LII | and aged those that see despise it. ~
182 XII | resurrected from it, it is destroyed by that one ! ~
183 XXXII | with her. And she that here destroys virginity, apprehension
184 XXXVIII | enters in its place the Devil's friend Desire, that is
185 XLV | spitting in the face like dew. ~
186 [Title](22)| while syr. S and the Arabic Diatessaron have 'En Non. ~
187 XXXVI | be made void ; the virgin died that the vow might not be
188 XXXIX | if Wine did that which is difficult, that women by him should
189 XLIX | faded and its intelligence diminished, they remember the humility
190 IX | doubt and contempt with disgrace, and they reject and give
191 XXVII | ruined. Ah, the confusion and dismay of the king's daughter,
192 XLVIII | takes away thy strength has dismissed and left thee (it will be)
193 V | appealed against him, whose dispositions the Disturber has corrupted. ~
194 XLV | and weak is a stick, and disregarded is the cane. Admonition [
195 XXXVII | grows old in one nest and if disturbed 19 she has left it for ever.
196 V | whose dispositions the Disturber has corrupted. ~
197 [Title](1) | in Aaron's transcript, is divided up into paragraphs or stanzas,
198 IX | reject and give pain to the doers of them, and the faces only
199 II | renewed : O Body, if thou dost make God to stay in thy
200 XXXVIII | it; with the Angels she doth flee to go forth. And who
201 [Title] | consulting the Syriac text.~Double inverted commas mark quotations
202 IX | apprehension and [P. 173.] doubt and contempt with disgrace,
203 | down
204 XLV | of wide-awake hours are dreams to him, and a beating is
205 X | talkative in those that drink it; it babbles in their
206 XLVI | that they pour into him is driven outside, it goes forth altogether ;
207 XLVII | his imaginations from the drop of evil love, that has dropped
208 XLVII | drop of evil love, that has dropped there and become a great
209 [Title](1) | variations being almost all due to the adoption of a more
210 XXXVII | country, and as a sojourner dwells in our land. And if any
211 XXXVIII | one there entered in and dwelt in him one full of sores ? 20 ~
212 [Title](20)| Story of Joseph and Asenath (E. W. Brooks, The Book of
213 XLV | XLV. It is easier for him that is drunk with
214 [Title](1) | before the writing was effaced. Where the transcript can
215 XXXIV | sprinkled in the midst of Egypt 18 ; for as often as that
216 [Title] | Note of the electronic source~I have moved the
217 XLVII | lo, arguments plunge and emerge,23 like sailors whose ships
218 [Title](20)| and virtue, yet the affair ends in a real marriage, which
219 XXXVIII | that peaceful one there entered in and dwelt in him one
220 XXXVIII | Angels has flown away there enters in its place the Devil's
221 [Title](23)| Ephraim's Comm. on Genesis (ES 1 15A), where it is used
222 | ever
223 XV | Body, Repentance and not every-day regret; for Repentance is
224 XII | its companionship. Oh, the evident illustration !— that Wood
225 XVIII | Amnon 11 approached the ewe, and when he had deceived
226 [Title] | asterisks intended to bear any exact relation to the number of
227 XIV | taken away from him all excuse ; wherefore in all faults
228 XXV | for tarts 14—alas for the expert in tarts !—she went in and
229 LIV | and thy humility should be exposed in the field, the unclean
230 XXXIII | thou make void with thine eyes the vow of virginity that
231 [Title](13)| 1 Gen. xxxiv 2, 25 f. ~
232 IX | the doers of them, and the faces only are open and pure of
233 XLIX | Age ; for when Old Age has faded and its intelligence diminished,
234 [Title](1) | it is found to bo quite faithful, the few variations being
235 [Title](20)| which to Ephraim was a sad falling-off ! ~
236 XLII | Bridegroom and got in his stead a false one, when thou hast the
237 XL | cast down Noah, the head of families and tongues, thee forsooth,
238 XXXIII | so that the vow of her father might not be made void :
239 XXXIII | holy Blood was shed for thy fault. ~
240 XXVII | XXVII. Tamar feared to keep silence and was
241 XIX | throw, and he hasted and fell, and so threw off and broke
242 XLV | like no beating. Strong fetters are weak to him ; despised
243 LI | revered by reason of the Figure of Royalty, how much more
244 XLVII | XLVII. For filled and heaped and choked up
245 XXIV | pretext of it he might be finding thee ! ~
246 LII | Youthfulness is like a branch of fine fruits that is fair in the
247 | first
248 [Title](22)| 1 Dove] 'Fish,' Aa. This absurd blunder
249 XL | conquered, and him that the Flood which was outside him did
250 XXXVIII | friendship of Angels has flown away there enters in its
251 [Title](1) | Aaron (B.M. Add. 14623, foll. 23a1-25a1) from the old
252 XLI | handmaidenship, that thy love may follow his will. ~
253 XLIV | than all! And he is the fool, with his hands he presents
254 [Title] | source~I have moved the footnotes to the end. Those consisting
255 L | visiting of the sick seal thy footsteps ; paint on thy heart the
256 LIV | body that was defiled by force. For as a priest can cleanse
257 II | thy oldness, in that He formed with His Blood and built
258 V | 172.] and the Peoples who fornicated without Law, changed their
259 XLI | agitator that surrenders thy fortress, that the captive-taker
260 LIV | in the unclean bosom of foul Pharaoh, she whose heart
261 LIV | was a priest to her bodily frame, and with its hyssop it
262 X | with his bread ; with his free meals he sells free-men
263 X | his free meals he sells free-men into slavery. The belly
264 LIV | she whose heart with her free-will did not commit adultery;
265 XXXVIII | in its place the Devil's friend Desire, that is the adversary
266 XXXVIII | in and dwelt in him one full of sores ? 20 ~
267 [Title] | translation by dots, and longer gaps by asterisks, but in neither
268 XXX | of the Evil One, the pure Garden vomited and cast her out. ~
269 XXVI | again. The rents of her garment workmen sufficed to heal ;
270 XLVI | beaten upon his ears. The gates of his ears are open, one
271 XXX | her own face ; in that she gave a place within her mind
272 XLIII | and whither then will thy gaze wander, a simple Dove 22
273 [Title](13)| 1 Gen. xxxiv 2, 25 f. ~
274 [Title](23)| occurs in Ephraim's Comm. on Genesis (ES 1 15A), where it is
275 XLIV | who are single that can get it, and if they have become
276 X | he will be bestowing his gifts upon the good. The mouth
277 XXXIX | should steal virginity ? The girls despoiled the treasure of
278 XIII | they become dead. It is given authority that by its will
279 XLIII | has uprooted her nest and gone forth in her love after
280 XXXVII | virginity that [P. 183.] by grace has revived our country,
281 XII | illustration !— that Wood is made a grave for Fire, and when the one
282 XLIV | lose it. O Pearl, that is greater than all! And he is the
283 XXXII | the Judge, though she have greatly repented. ~
284 L | become precious when thou growest old : paint on thy hands
285 XXXVII | bird of the height, that grows old in one nest and if disturbed 19
286 XVIII | XVIII. In the guise of a lamb the cunning Amnon 11
287 II | for it a shrine for His habitation ; do [P. 171.] not let dwell
288 I | not clothe thee in (bad) habits. ~
289 VI | discipleship, and when they are halfway he (the 'Old Man') has set
290 XL | the Deluge of water from a handful of wine was conquered, and
291 XLI | captive thy freedom into handmaidenship, that thy love may follow
292 XXVII | whose pearls that were hanging on her could not console
293 XLVII | to bring it into a good harbour [P. 187.] it struggles with
294 XXI | those which had played the harlot and kept alive those on
295 XIX | sowed in the chamber his harvest, in his field the sword
296 XIX | he did not throw, and he hasted and fell, and so threw off
297 [Title](10)| scribe of the Palimpsest having written [Syriac] before [
298 XL | and cast down Noah, the head of families and tongues,
299 III | whereby he that sins is healed.
300 XV | for Repentance is as 6 a Healer to our wounds, but this
301 XVIII | rebellious in her nest, the healthy wolf that made himself ill
302 XLVII | XLVII. For filled and heaped and choked up are the bosoms
303 I | wear thee out : O Body, hear my counsels ! Put it off 3
304 XXX | had shut the door of her hearing before his speaking, the
305 V | V. Hearken to Nature and Law declaring
306 [Title](14)| same word for 'cakes' and 'hearts.' ~
307 XXI | if virginity kept alive heathen women, how much more will
308 XXXVII | on high the bird of the height, that grows old in one nest
309 VII | hand of the Lord of the Heights ! Flee from the counsel
310 [Title](20)| Joseph and Asenath, S.P.C.K., Hellenistic-Jewish Texts, No. 7). In this tale,
311 XX | cried out and there is no help." For thine own self, O
312 XXVII | the open rents might be heralds for the secret virginity
313 [Title](20)| In this tale, though both hero and heroine are represented
314 [Title](20)| tale, though both hero and heroine are represented as the perfection
315 | hers
316 | herself
317 LIII | thee captive, in which are hidden the blemishes of Old Age.
318 XLV | and teaching of wide-awake hours are dreams to him, and a
319 XXIII | took thee captive, in his house they slaughtered him ; and
320 | however
321 VI | VI. The humble ones have stolen away from
322 XXII | every place are they that hunt for thee ! ~
323 XXIV | inexperienced Dove, cunning is thy hunter and thou art innocent, ingenious
324 XXIII | XXIII. The hunters of thee, O Virginity, that
325 XXVII | and was ashamed to speak ; hut because she could not keep
326 [Title](1) | relation of the piece to the Hymns de Virginitate, printed
327 LIV | bodily frame, and with its hyssop it purged the body that
328 XII | both of them ; but when it (i.e. Fire) has come to life it
329 XVIII | healthy wolf that made himself ill deceitfully made her enter
330 L | paint on thy heart the image of thy Lord. ~
331 LI | on which are painted the images of thy King ? ~
332 XLVII | up are the bosoms of his imaginations from the drop of evil love,
333 XIV | just, in that He does not immediately [P. 175.] a man has sinned
334 XLI | trust in wine, for it is an impostor and an agitator that surrenders
335 VIII | VIII. He impoverished the treasures of great Adam,
336 VIII | him his silver the debt impoverishes. ~
337 XXXV | keep and are kept; that inasmuch as they are kept safe for
338 [Title] | great mutilation, italics indicate an attempt to summarise
339 [Title] | 10):~[Short lacunae are indicated in the translation by dots,
340 [Title] | the fragments.]~[P.101] indicates page 101 of the accompanying
341 LII | becomes the despised of all. O inexperience! do not shew thy beauty
342 [Title] | an approximately correct inference may be drawn by consulting
343 XXIV | hunter and thou art innocent, ingenious is thy deceiver and thou
344 I | out the newness that thou inhabitest and hast put on ; for the
345 XVII | veil9 but in thy body shew injuries, and do not10 in veils thy
346 XXIV | thy hunter and thou art innocent, ingenious is thy deceiver
347 [Title] | terminology.~Words in italics inside square brackets are to be
348 [Title] | of the dots or asterisks intended to bear any exact relation
349 XVIII | and so trapped her ; the invalid that was torpid got up to
350 V | corruptions ! For the People (of Israel) who committed adultery
351 IX | IX. For accompanying its desires
352 [Title](16)| also has 'Nephtah' for ' Jephtah.' ~
353 XXIX | XXIX. From the royal jewel-house he chose out and stole the
354 [Title](22)| Syriac of "Aenon near Salim" (John iii 23), where syr. C-vg.
355 IX | old man') off ; do not be joined, O Body, with hateful love,
356 XI | of his corruption, like Judas, who kissed and killed.
357 IV | bind up his wounds; they justify the Judge, they reprove
358 [Title](20)| Joseph and Asenath, S.P.C.K., Hellenistic-Jewish Texts,
359 XI | alive therein it turns and kills it. O Body, if thou give
360 II | wilt be a temple of His kingdom and a priest of His sacrifice. ~
361 XI | unclean, to teach that his kisses are a poison and death is
362 IV | those who return : for they know that they will be measured
363 XXVIII | 180.] virginity. The thief knows thy value, O Virginity,
364 [Title] | Introduction, p. (10):~[Short lacunae are indicated in the translation
365 [Title](1) | Virginitate, printed at the end of Lamy's Ephraim, vol. ii, see
366 XXXVII | sojourner dwells in our land. And if any one persecute
367 XXIII | again, who in the chamber lay in wait for thee and took
368 XXXII | Resurrection fear becomes her leader before the Judge, though
369 XV | XV. Learn, O Body, Repentance and
370 XXXVII | XXXVII. Do not leave off, O Body, from the virginity
371 LII | when its fruits and its leaves have been stripped off it
372 [Title](1) | be checked by the still legible portions of the original
373 VIII | not ask back what he has lent, that if thou pay him his
374 LI | LI. And if the nailed-up Tablets
375 XLIX | XLIX. Lighten, O Youthfulness, thy course
376 LII | LII. Youthfulness is like a
377 LIII | LIII. O Eye ! let not the beauty
378 [Title](19)| 4 Lit. ' taken up'—the same word
379 LIV | LIV. But if there should chance
380 IX | dead, the anxiety of it lives secretly. ~
381 XIX | Athlete who saw that as long as he was standing he did
382 [Title] | translation by dots, and longer gaps by asterisks, but in
383 XLIV | become unclean both of them lose it. O Pearl, that is greater
384 XXXIX | despoiled the old age of Lot. But if Wine did that which
385 XLIII | companion that thou hast loved will have let go of thee
386 XLVII | struggles with its sailor and loves its own loss. ~
387 XI | fall, who when he rises lulls to sleep, the desire of
388 LV | LV. For it is a marvel in Man,
389 | makes
390 | many
391 [Title] | Double inverted commas mark quotations where the original
392 [Title](15)| the ornamental stop which marks a paragraph. ~
393 LV | LV. For it is a marvel in Man, that though he is
394 X | their voices instead of its master. ~
395 XXX | treasure-trove of Eve. that thou mayest not find for thyself in
396 XLVIII | complete [thy] courses in the maze of desires ; when that which
397 X | his bread ; with his free meals he sells free-men into slavery.
398 IV | they know that they will be measured with one Evil one, who hurts
399 L | Youthfulness, thy victories on thy members, by which thou wilt become
400 [Title](10)| do not,' Aa. Apparently a mere scribes' blunder, the scribe
401 XXIII | P. 178.] Shechem,13 who met with thee in the field and
402 [Title](1) | Virginity is not in regular metre. On this question, and the
403 XXI | and virgins that were in Midian, he killed those which had
404 [Title] | relation to the number of the missing words. In respect to this
405 XLVIII | XLVIII. O Youthfulness, mistress of (various) courses (of
406 XLVIII | thy Old Age may come to mockery, because a hateful course
407 [Title](1) | to the adoption of a more modern style of spelling. ~The
408 [Title](1) | Discourse was copied out by the monk Aaron (B.M. Add. 14623,
409 [Title](23)| concentrated in Sun and Moon. ~
410 | moreover
411 XX | ill-treated in the field Moses the Stammerer,12 the advocate
412 | Most
413 XXXVI | therefore that cohabitation, the mother of seed, wished to die that
414 XI | are a poison and death is moulded by them secretly ; this
415 [Title](1) | 23a1-25a1) from the old MS. before the writing was
416 | must
417 [Title] | text has suffered great mutilation, italics indicate an attempt
418 | my
419 LI | LI. And if the nailed-up Tablets that the carpenter
420 [Title](22)| transliteration into Syriac of "Aenon near Salim" (John iii 23), where
421 XXXII | girl that stretched out her neck to the slaughter of the
422 | neither
423 [Title](16)| 30 ff : syr.vg also has 'Nephtah' for ' Jephtah.' ~
424 I | it may not wear out the newness that thou inhabitest and
425 [Title](22)| Arabic Diatessaron have 'En Non. ~
426 | nor
427 | nothing
428 [Title] | are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers and line
429 [Title] | inverted commas are used in numerous cases where the words seem
430 LV | Offering, and he is the Offerer of the Offering : for he
431 | often
432 II | Architect of Life has built thy oldness, in that He formed with
433 [Title](6) | 2 as] om. Aa. ~
434 [Title] | syriac]" or similar have been omitted, as it has not been possible
435 | only
436 [Title](15)| Aaron's transcript has an ordinary stop before 'Eve,' not the
437 [Title](15)| stop before 'Eve,' not the ornamental stop which marks a paragraph. ~
438 XLIII | thou art deserted and art orphaned on two sides, the True One
439 XL | was outside him did not overcome, the wine which was within
440 X | he has bribed) the eye to overlook, and the mouth to keep silence,
441 XVI | tax-collector's bond for him who owes money ; so by the same illustration
442 XXIX | which is lost away from its owner and does not remain in the
443 [Title] | fragments of Syriac. The pages are numbered with Roman
444 IX | and they reject and give pain to the doers of them, and
445 XV | and it brings a relapse of pains every day.
446 LI | has constructed and the painter painted have become precious,
447 [Title] | printed at the back of the paper volume. ~ ~
448 [Title](1) | transcript, is divided up into paragraphs or stanzas, which I have
449 [Title] | conjectural translations or paraphrases.~In a few passages, where
450 XVII | have wronged his wife, her parents shall go forth and declare
451 [Title] | or paraphrases.~In a few passages, where the text has suffered
452 XLV | and reproof like a tale passes through his ears ; contemptuous
453 XLVI | there is not in his heart a path-finder for the words that have
454 VIII | he has lent, that if thou pay him his silver the debt
455 XXXVIII | weep that instead of that peaceful one there entered in and
456 XXVII | the king's daughter, whose pearls that were hanging on her
457 V | evil corruptions ! For the People (of Israel) who committed
458 V | the Law, [P. 172.] and the Peoples who fornicated without Law,
459 XXXVII | our land. And if any one persecute her and uproot her nest,
460 XXXVIII | adversary of Virginity. Joseph persecuted her from within his body,
461 XX | virginity, who is there to persuade, that in the midst of peace
462 XX | advocate of truth, he is persuaded about her that "the girl
463 [Title](14)| 2 2 Sam. xiii 5 ff. The Peshitta has the same word for 'cakes'
464 LIV | the unclean bosom of foul Pharaoh, she whose heart with her
465 [Title](23)| 2 The same phrase occurs in Ephraim's Comm.
466 XXV | tarts !—she went in and placed (them) for the uplifted
467 XLIX | cherish it seeing its secret plants of the Spirit. ~
468 XXI | he killed those which had played the harlot and kept alive
469 XLVII | sea ; and lo, arguments plunge and emerge,23 like sailors
470 XI | teach that his kisses are a poison and death is moulded by
471 XXX | inexperienced found the Serpent, the poisonous one whose words are sweet ;
472 XXV | desire deceived virginity and polluted it, wrath deceived the desire
473 LV | Priest, he is to himself a Pontiff, he is to himself a Sacrifice ;
474 X | the good. The mouth of the poor he stops with his bread ;
475 [Title](1) | checked by the still legible portions of the original it is found
476 [Title] | omitted, as it has not been possible to transcribe the fragments
477 XLVI | other. The speech that they pour into him is driven outside,
478 XXXIII | mouth has vowed. Jephthah poured out the blood of his daughter ;
479 XLVI | does not perceive that he pours it all out, and it is spilt,
480 XIII | likeness of the Most High whose Power upholdeth everything, and
481 [Title](19)| the same word as in the preceding line. ~
482 XXXIX | by him should have stolen pregnancy, how much more forsooth
483 XLIV | fool, with his hands he presents the Pearl to the Thief ! ~
484 XXIV | in that Amnon who under pretence of food was seeking what
485 [Title](1) | numbered, as in the case of the previous piece, but the Discourse
486 III | teaches and the Book that proclaims, for its wickedness is between
487 XLII | hast found (what will it profit thee, ?) : because his love
488 VII | is wont to cast his whole property for nothing to the loss
489 XXXV | comforted them much by its protection, thy perfection and thy
490 LIV | and with its hyssop it purged the body that was defiled
491 XI | cunning, in that first he puts on the mouth of his. snare
492 [Title](1) | in regular metre. On this question, and the relation of the
493 XXXVII | turn and build it her wing quickly takes up on high the bird
494 [Title](1) | original it is found to bo quite faithful, the few variations
495 XI | this is one who if thou raise him up will recompense thee
496 [Title] | end. Those consisting of "Read [syriac] for [syriac]" or
497 [Title](20)| yet the affair ends in a real marriage, which to Ephraim
498 LI | are [P. 188.] revered by reason of the Figure of Royalty,
499 XVIII | he saw that virginity was rebellious in her nest, the healthy
500 [Title](20)| 1 The reference must be to the Story of