Ver. 18. καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Θημὰρ περὶ τῆς κακίας τῆς μεγάλης ταύτης ὑπὲρ ἑτέραν, ἣν ἐποίησας μετ' της σε πληρ ἐμοῦ, τοῦ ἐξαποστεῖλαί με. καὶ οὐκ ἠθέλησεν με το ̓Αμνὼν ἀκοῦσαι τῆς φωνῆς αὐτῆς. Au. Ver.-16 And she said unto him, There is no cause this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou But he would not hearken didst unto me. unto her. Bp. Horsley.-16 Might not this verse be thus rendered? "And she said unto him, There is no motive for this outrageous injury, after what thou hast done with me, to turn me out of doors," &c. Houb.-16 Illa ei respondit; ne sit ita, mî frater. Nam magnum hoc nefas minus est eo, quod nunc admittis, ut me ejicias. Ille eam noluit audire. NN: Oratio vitiosa et manca, quam frustra interpretari velis, sed quam ex uno Hexaplorum Interprete docemur sic esse על אדות,resarciendam nequaquam,אל אחי • בְּנוֹת אוֹתָהּ וגו καὶ ἐπ ̓ αὐτῆς ἦν χιτὼν καρπωτὸς, ὅτι οὕτως ἐνεδιδύσκοντο αἱ θυγατέρες τοῦ βασιλέως αἱ παρθένοι τοὺς ἐπενδύτας αὐτῶν. καὶ ἐξήγαγεν αὐτὴν, κ.τ.λ. Au. Ver.-18 And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her. Ged., Booth.-18 Now Tamar had on her a garment of various colours: for such robes the king's virgin daughters anciently wore. Then, &c. Houb.-18 Illa autem tunica polymita induta erat: nam virgines filiæ regum sic a teneris induebantur. Ille igitur qui ministrabat, eduxit eam foras, et ostium post eam clausit. Anciently. So Josephus, from a reading much more probable than that of the present text: which has been variously corrected and amended, to make it speak something frater mi, quia...Nam ille Int. habet un like sense. The best of these seems to be adeλpe, ne frater...Sic Thamar fratrem that of Michaëlis, viz., from the age of suum allocuta est versu 12. Lector ex puberty. scriptione ipsa monebatur, latere aliquid erroris. Etenim T♫ nunquam non præfigitur, nusquam verò. Sed scriptor ex similitudine et, postquam scripserat, saltum fecit ad , omissis in medio verbis Clericus credebat subaudiendum ; ut esset in, ne des, m, occasionem ; etsi neque, occasio est, nec solet Hebr. lingua verbum relinquere lectori subaudiendum; et cum convertit hoc postquam dictum fuit, sic vestiuntur, aut modo: ne causam præbeas huic malo majori eo, quo me affecisti, dimittendo me, ne ipse quidem, opinor, quid diceret, intelligebat. Est ipsum stuprum, quo deterius malum est, dimitti contumeliose. Ita videbatur sorori Amnon. ,אחי על duobus D: Exploratum mendum, cujus loco scribendum fuerat, a teneris, seu a prima juventute (sic induebantur filiæ regum.) Nam, tunicis, supervacaneum est, iterandum fuerat tunicis, nam tunica agitur, non pallium, quæ duæ res nunquam promiscue usurpantur; et versu inferiori Thamar scindit tunicam, non pallium, quod satis significat non fuisse antea memoratum pallium. Itaque male occultabat mendum Clericus interpretans, ad stolas superiores quod attinet, cum constet tunicam, de qua mox, esse stolam interiorem, non superiorem. Dathe.-18 (Induta autem erat tunica variegata; sic enim solebant regis filiæ virgines inde a pubertatis annis vestiri.) Maurer. ] Hoc niti e duabus lectionibus conflatum volunt, altera nii, quam pauciores libri exhibent, altera niis, quæ in multis codd. exstat. Illa placuit Gesenio, Winero, aliis, hæc Hitzigio Begriff, p. 123. Quam vellem hi critici textu ita constituto etiam sensum con- a) In textu legitur: p, pallia. Sed stituissent! Quid quæso hoc est: propter quid pallia hoc loco sibi volunt, cum de hoc malum majus altero, quo me affecisti, me tunica sermo sit? Pro illis igitur in scridimittenda? Nihil muto. Sensus hic est: bendum fuisset, si post verba a 12 vesne ansa detur, ne sis auctor hujus mali timenti genus iterum nominari debebat. majoris eo, quo me affecisti, me dimittenda, Atque in sequenti versu narratur quoque, i.e., noli rem pessimam pejorem adhuc Tamaram tunicam, non pallium, scidisse, quæ facere me dimittenda. vestes fuerunt apud Hebræos perquam diversæ. Suboluit jam Hubigantius vitium, | omittunt Vulgatus et Græci Intt. et noluit quod emendavit pop, a teneris s. a prima contristare spiritum filii sui Amnon...quæque juventute. Michaëlis propius ad verum etiam legebat in suo Codice Græco Josephus, videtur accessisse, dum legi vult, a rerum scriptor Judaicarum. Hæc autem omissa fuerunt a Scribis Codicum Hodier pubertate abè, coëundi cupidus fuit. norum, ex occasione verborum sequentium Gesen., Thes. m. vestimenti genus, quia similiter incipiebant per ", (a tegendo, v. rad. No. 1), tunica longior et quæ omissa sunt. Nempe et noluit, est amplior, qualem gestabant puellæ (ac regis Hebraicè, quomodo infra, ver. 25. quidem filiæ præter consuetudinem mani-Nimium jejune diceretur, Davidem de stupro catam: sic enim explicanda sunt verba filiæ suæ oblato graviter doluisse, nisi adde2 Sam. xiii. 18: gestabat ea retur, vel Amnon, stupri autorem, non imtunicam manicatam: opp nibanao, sic enim sc. manicatas filiæ regis, dum virgines erant, solebant gestare tunicas), reges et principes 1 Sam. xviii. 4; xxiv. 5, 12; 1 Par. xv. 27; Ez. xxvi. 16, aliique viri nobiliores, Iob. i. 20; ii. 12, sacerdotes, velut Samuel, 1 Samuel xv. 27; xxviii. 14; Esras, Esr. ix. 3, 5, &c. Prof. Lee.-, m. pl. o, r. Comp. . Long and full upper garment, worn by persons of dignity (men or women), robe, mantle, or the like. See Braun. de Vest. Sacerd. ii. 5; Schroed. de Vest. Mulierum, p. 269. It appears to have had a mouth, or neck hole, in the middle, Exod. xxxix. 23, and four corners,, LXX, Tтépʊyes, Deut. xxii. 12;-1 Sam. xv. 27; xviii. 4; xxiv. 5, 12. Also by the prophets and priests, Ib. xxviii. 14:-but under the ephod; thence termed, TNT, Exod. xxviii. 31; xxxix. 22:-by women, 2 Sam. xiii. 18. Metaph. Is. lxi. 10; lix. 17. &c. Ver. 20. Αf. pune tulisse, vel si scelus impune fuit, cur David meritas a filio suo pœnas non repoposcerit. Aiunt quidam, id, quod habent Græci et Vulgatus, fuisse olim in margine scriptum, deinde ex margine in Contextum allatum. Sed causam probabilem non afferunt, cur ad marginem scripta ea fuerint, quæ ad contextum intelligendum necessaria non essent, nec vero ex ullo alio scripturæ loco desumpta ; nos vero causam maxime probabilem damus eam, quam mox diximus, cur hæc omissa fuerint. Nam simili ex causa permulta omittuntur, codicibus describendis. καὶ οὐκ ἐλάλησεν Αβεσσαλώμ μετὰ ̓Αμνὼν ἀπὸ πονηροῦ ἕως ἀγαθοῦ, ὅτι ἐμίσει ̓Αβεστ σαλὼμ τὸν ̓Αμνὼν ἐπὶ λόγου, οὗ ἐταπείνωσε Θημὰρ τὴν ἀδελφὴν αὐτοῦ. Houb.-, male, pro p, [M. MSS.], his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: Au. Ver.-22 And Absalom spake unto Amnon. an non, quæso, nobiscum veniet Amnon; quæ son every day. seu, ולא אתה תלך: ילך נא Amnon, seu legunt contextum supplent, quem sentiunt esse lacunosum. Sed quoniam Absalom regem, tertia persona utens, compellat ver. 24 hoc modo, veniat, quæso, rex, meliùs sic legatur, No T·Than Th N, quod si non venit rex, veniat quæso, Amnon. Non mirum, quia bis legebatur, ex uno ad alterum saltum fecisse scribam. Ver. 28. Au. Ver.-28 Now Absalom had coin manded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you [or, will you not, since I have commanded you, Josh. i. 9]? be courageous, and be valiant [Heb., sons of valour]. Ged., Booth.-28 Absalom made a feast like the feast of a king [LXX, Vulg.]; And Absalom commanded his servants, say ing, &c. Ver. 33, 34. 33 Ged., Booth.- And David [versions, so Dathe] mourned for his son many days. [So Syr., Arab., and four MSS., with several copies of Vulg. The rest "every day." Ged.] Houb.-...", et plorabat. Omnes, præter Chaldæum, supplent David; Græci autem, rex David, ex scriptura ¬¬, quæ eadem recurrit versu inferiori, quæque est hoc versu non minus necessaria: nam 77, nimis longo intervallo est, quam ut id sacra pagina omiserit, præsertim cum verba ea, quæ antecedunt, non ad David, sed ad Absalom pertineant. Au. Ver.-38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. 39 And the soul of king David longed [or, was consumed] to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. Pool. To go forth unto Absalom, to wit, to visit him, or to send for him. And thus this word the soul is here understood, partly 34 וַיִּבְרַח אַבְשָׁלוֹם וַיִּשָּׂא הַנַּעַר וגו' כתיב ולא קרי .33 .v from the Hebrew verb, which being of the feminine gender, agrees not with David, but who had fled and gone to Geshur, had been with David's soul; and partly by comparing there three years, (39) king David longed this with other places, where the same verb for Absalom; for he was comforted conis used, and the soul expressed, as Psalm cerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. lxxxiv. 2; cxix. 81. But as this supple- Houb.-39 : Nos, interea cessavit ment may seem too bold, so this version David, quia cum Vulgato, legimus bɔ", ne seems not so well to agree with that phrase of sit solecismus. Sed dubitamus, an sit legengoing out to Absalom; for David neither dum cum Chaldæo 11 w ɔm, et desidedesired nor intended to go out to Absalom, rabat anima David (exire ad Absalom) vel but that Absalom should come home to him. n, genere fem. Hæc sententia melius And these words may be and are otherwise quadrat in id, quod sequitur. Et recte adrendered, by the most ancient and remark- ditur, quo verbum semper nititur, able interpreters, to this purpose; And king ubi habet significatum desiderandi. David made an end of going out (to wit, in Maurer. Hunc locum Hitzan hostile manner, as that verb is often used. igius Begriff., p. 139, negans, lectionem reGen. xiv. 18; 2 Sam. xi. 1) against (for so ceptam tolerabilem sensum præbere, ita the Hebrew particle el is often used, as Jer. restituendum putat: ', et constituit xxxiv. 7; Ezek. xiii. 9, 20; Amos vii. 15) Davides rex (propr. es wurde [von] dem Absalom; i. e. having used some, though it K. David beschlossen, cf. 1 Sam. xx. 7, 9, 33, is probable but cold and remiss, endeavours et quoad formam Ex. xxxix. 32) egredi, i. e., to pursue after Absalom, and to fetch him sanguinis vindices emittere adversus Abfrom his grandfather's to receive condign salomum, mærebat enim Amnonis mortem. punishment, he now gave over thoughts of Illud quidem verissimum est, verba recepta it. Thus the same verb, and that in the significare non posse: desiit Davides rex same conjugation, is used in the same man- egredi contra Absalomum (sensu supra ner, 1 Kings iii. 1, he made an end of notato), erat enim de morte Amnonis conbuilding. It is to be objected, That the solatus. Ita enim leges grammaticæ pro Hebrew verb is of the feminine gender, and therefore doth not agree with king David, which is masculine. It may be answered, that enallage of genders is a most frequent figure; and as the masculine gender is sometimes applied to women when they do some manly and gallant action, Exod. i. 21, so the feminine gender is sometimes used of men when they show an effeminate tenderness in their disposition; which is the case here, as some learned Hebricians have noted. poscerent. Præterea nusquam legitur, Davidem sanguinis vindices adversus Absalomum emisisse. Denique tantum abest, ut Davides de morte Amnonis fuerit consolatus, ut vs. 37 contrarium dicatur. Sed vide, an non vulgaris lectio alium eumque satis commodum sensum fundat. Scilicet inter omnes constat, verbum notionem suam interdum mutuari a. Hoc autem inter alia significat continuit, cohibuit. Quo significatu si sumas nostrum, facillimus hic sensus prodibit: neque a se impetrare Bp. Patrick. The soul of king David potuit Davides rex, ut exiret ad Absalomum longed to go forth unto Absalom.] He had sc. ejus videndi causa (propr. und es hielt a vehement desire to see him. Though ihn zu rück, h. e., dolor, quo mors filii some, even of the ancients, translate the Davidem affecerat [cf. seqq.] eum cohibuit words, "he ceased to pursue after Ab- cet.); dolebat enim mortem Amnonis. salom" as if he had at first endeavoured to seize him, either in his flight to Geshur, CHAP. XIV. 1. or afterward, when at any time he went Houb.-1, filius Sarviæ. abroad. But ours appears to be a true est scriba, cum omitteret ; nam scribi solet translation, from the beginning of the next, Sarvia. Sic sæpe antea, et lib. i. chapter; where David's heart is said to be xxvi. 6. Sic infra ver. 4 fuerat scribendum towards Absalom. Bp. Horsley. Perhaps, form, the true Ver. 4. Lapsus .1 sine ,תקעית Thecuitis, non,תקועית וַתֹּאמֶר הָאִשָּׁה הַתְּלָעִית אֶל־הַמֶּלֶךְ And David " . ויתכל reading may have been וַתִּכָּל עַל־אַפִּיהָ אַרְצָה וַתִּשְׁתָּחוּ the king restrained himself from pursuing Absalom." To this effect the Vulgate. Ged., Booth.-38 But when Absalom, Bekoirts rpos Top | which shows that she desired some further (עץ | kat tioney .ג.Barléa, k.r Au. Ver. 4 And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help [Heb., save], O king. Spake to the king. Houb., Ged., Booth.-Went [LXX, Syr., Vulg., Arab., and forty-five MSS.] to the king. assurance of the king's care and justice in Houb.-9 Tum mulier Thecuitis regi; cognatorum, qui postulant ad necem filium contra me sit iniquitas, nempe, עלי... העון sed rer et thronus, והמלך וכסאו נקי : meum ejus sit innoxius; i. e. ne damnum familiæ Houb.-, Et dixit. Lege sam, et venit, ut legunt omnes veteres, praeter unum Chaldæum. Scriba de linea erravit, cum quid in mente habeat, et significat se non legeret in linea inferiore hæc verba, tam curare filium eum, de quo in fabula narravit, quam filium ipsum regis, etsi hanc הושעה... que satis similia sunt istis, הושעה .saluum fac, vel fer opem. Le- | ejus mentem nondum rex assequebatur ותאמר האשה Ver. 11-17. in IHiphil, ut legitur in הושיעה gendum הושעה המלך Nam 12 tribus Codicibus Orat. מהרבה ק" .11 .v compass her design; and withal implies that VOL. II. 4 F |