SYNOPSIS OF CRITICISMS I'PON THOSE PASSAGES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, IN WNIOTI MODERN COMMENTATORS HAVE DIFFERED FROM THE AUTHORIZED VERSION; TOGETHER WITII AN EXPLANATION OF VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES IN THE HEBREW AND ENGLISHI TEXTS. BY THE REV. RICILARD A. F. BARRETT, M. A., FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. All flesh is as grass, cipal, with a fifth part; because rapine happens seldom, but theft often; for it : 1972 napon cannot be committed so easily as theft; and Arogyly v. 2. is done openly and manifestly, whereas évtellal to 'Aapwv kai tois viois avrow, theft is committed more secretly: so that a léywv. nútos ó vóuos tñs blokavtWgEws. man Imay be aware (he imagines) of a αυτή η ολοκαύτωσις επί της καύσεως αυτης επί robber, and defend his goods against him, Toù Ovoiaompiov önnu Thu vúkta ëws Topwi, better than a secret thief. και το πυρ του θυσιαστηρίου καυθήσεται επ' Au. Ver.--The thing which he has deceit- aŭtoð, où oßeoonoetat. fully gotten. Au. Ver.-9. Command Aaron and his Others. Which he has gotten by oppres- sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt sion. See notes on verse 3. offering : It is the burnt offering, because of the burning for, for the burning upon the Heb., V. 25; Au. Ver., VI. 6. altar all night unto the morning, and the Sinn Son ? Ni imanns? fire of the altar shall be burning in it. : 0917 OWN 7279. 137 Bp. Patrick.—It is the burnt offering.] He και της πλημμελείας αυτού οίσει τώ κυρίω explains what burnt offering the cliefly kpiòv åttò TÔV Tpoßátwv õuwuov, tiuns, eis å means, viz., the daily sacrifice; which was ÉT Amuuélnge. the principal burnt offering, according to Au. Ver.-6 And he shall bring his which all other offerings of that kind were trespass offering unto the Lord, a ram with- 1 to be regulated. out blemish out of the flock, with thy esti- Because of the burning upon the altar all mation, for a trespass offering. unto the night unto the morning. ] Or, for the burning priest : | upon the altar, &c. This was the reason of Trespass offering. See notes on iii. 1. its name, because it was burning on the With thy estimation. See notes on v. 15. on v 15 altar from the evening (at which the Jews Ged. And for his guilt-offering to the began their day) till the morning. For Lord, he shall bring to the priest a ram which purpose the priests watched all night, without blemish from the flock (to be and put the sacrifice upon the altar piece by valued according to the guilt). piece, that it might be consumed by a slow and gentle fire. As for the morning sacriHeb., V. 26; Au. Ver., VI. 7. fice, it is not here mentioned, because it was consumed by a quicker fire; that there might be r001n for other sacrifices that 1, commonly offered after it (as appears from – και αφεθήσεται αυτή περί ενός από ' ver. 12), and were only offered in the Távrov wv étroinde kai étrimuuéngev év avto. morning, not at night. But if there were no Au. Ver.-7. And the priest shall make another carrifices to Succeed it in the morning the priest shall make other sacrifices to succeed it in the morning, atonement for him before the Lord: and it th fore the Lord: and it then, it is very likely, that it was also kept shall be forgiven him for any thing of all burning till the evening sacrifice; that God's that he hath done in trespassing therein. l altar might always have meat upon it. And it, &c., therein. 1 And the fire of the altar shall be burning Ged. And he shall be forgiven ; which-' in it.] Or. For the fire of the ultar, &c. So soever of these things it be, by which he it should be translated : unless we translate had incurred guilt. the last word not in it, but by it. And the Booth.- -And it shall be forgiven him, rgiven him, ' fire of the altar shall be burning (i.e., be in respect to any of the things which he 'fed or maintained) by it. hath done, and thereby become guilty Bp. llorsley. (It is the burnt-offering, Ver. 9. &c.) Rather, “ The burnt-offering must Au. Ver.-And. remain upon the burning fuel upon the Ged., Booth.--Again. altar all night, unto the morning, and the |