Fragment VI

VI.

Two Scholia on Genesis XXII. 13. ³⁶²⁸

The Syriac and the Hebrew use the word “suspended,” ³⁶²⁹ as more clearly typifying the cross.

The word Sabek ³⁶³⁰ some have rendered remission, ³⁶³¹ others upright, ³⁶³² as if the meaning, agreeing with the popular belief, were—a goat walking erect up to a bush, and there standing erect caught by his horns, so as to be a plain type of the cross.  For this reason it is not translated, because the single Hebrew word signifies in other languages ³⁶³³ many things.  To those, however, who ask it is proper to give an answer, and to say that Sabek denotes lifted up. ³⁶³⁴

Footnotes

760:3628

In the edition of the LXX. published by Card. Caraffe, 1581.

760:3629

κρεμάμενος.  The Hebrew is זחאנ, the Syriac ***, both meaning simply “caught.”

760:3630

See note on the fragment just before.

760:3631

ἀφεσις.

760:3632

ὄρθιος.

760:3633

Lit. “when translated.”

760:3634

ἐπηρμένος.