Appendix Ii.

NECOH’S CAMPAIGN (PP. 162, 163).

In addition to the accounts in the Books of Kings and Chronicles of Pharaoh Nĕcoh’s advance into Asia in pursuance of his claim for a share of the crumbling Assyrian Empire there are two independent records: (1) Jeremiah XLVII. 1—and Pharaoh smote Gaza—a headline (with other particulars) wrongly prefixed by the Hebrew text, but not by the Greek, to an Oracle upon an invasion of Philistia not from the south but from the north (see above, pp. 13, 61); (2) by Herodotus, II. 159, who says that “Nĕcoh (Nekôs) making war by land on the Syrians defeated them at Magdolos and after the battle took Kadŭtis, a great city of Syria.” Magdolos is probably Megiddo, unless it stands for Megdel, which, as well as Rumman (= Hadad-rimmon, the scene of the mourning for Josiah, Zech. XII. 11) lies near Megiddo. If, as is usually held, Kadŭtis be Gaza, Herodotus has reversed the proper order of Nĕcoh’s two actions; but Kadŭtis also suggests hak-Kôdēsh, the holy, an epithet of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, I. 270) which would suit Herodotus’ order, for it was after Megiddo that Nĕcoh became master of Jerusalem and Judah. The suggestion, though worth mentioning, is doubtful; the epithet is late, exilic and post-exilic; and Herodotus’ phrase took Kadŭtis is hardly equivalent to became paramount there as Nĕcoh became paramount in Jerusalem.

INDEX OF TEXTS.

Genesis— xlix. 27; 69

Exodus— xxi. 1-6; 235

Leviticus— vi. 5; 152 xix. 27; 206 xxvi. 34 f.; 8

Numbers— xxx. 2, 12; 313

Deuteronomy— iv. 19; 136, 195 xvii. 3; 195 xviii. 6; 135 xxxii. 13; 222

Judges— i. 16; 193 iv. 17; 194 v. 4; 222 24; 194 xi. 36; 313

I. Samuel— x. 2; 302 xv. 6; 193 22; 156

I. Kings— ii. 26 f.; 67

II. Kings— x. 15, 23; 193 xxii. 12 ff.; 174 20; 259 xxiii. 5, 13; 195 8 ff.; 135 10; 196 28-30; 163 31; 66, 232 xxiv. 1-16; 176 6; 259 8, 15; 213 17; 232 18; 66 xxv. 7; 270 18; 246 21; 236

I. Chronicles— ii. 55; 193

II. Chronicles— xxxv. 20; 162 xxxvi. 21-23; 8

Ezra— i. 1 f.; 8

Nehemiah— xiii; 20 15-22; 221

Psalms— v. 9; 122 xv; 232 xxiii; 9 xxvi-xxviii; 9 l. 13, 14; 158 li. 16, 17; 158

Isaiah— vi; 351 x. 28-32; 70 xv. f.; 20 xl. ff.; 8, 20 xliv. 28; 8 lii, liii; 7 lvi. 2-7; 221 lviii; 20 13 f.; 221 lx. 5; 302

Jeremiah— i.; 9, 28, 30, 42, 50, *78-88* 1-3; 9 5; 67 6; 82, 318 9 f.; 355 10; 14, 83, 319 11 f.; 351, 365 12 f.; 355 13-15; 62 17 f.; 14, 333 ii, iii; 355, 357 ii-xxv; 10 ii. 1-37; *91-98* 1-3; 44 2; 104 5; 106, 356, 362 5-8; 49 8; 355 9; 356 f. 11-13; 346, 356 13; 364 14 f.; 39, 40, 362 14-17; 47 17; 14, 105 18; 81 19; 12, 14, 360 21 f.; 107, 346 23 f.; 68 25; 346, 360 26; 18 28; 76 29; 12 30; 360 31; 47, 106, 346, 355, 362 32 ff.; 45 35; 346, 357, 363 37; 358 iii; 18 1-25; *98-103* 1-6; 52, 358 2; 77, 370 3; 358, 365 5; 40 6-18; 18 6 ff.; 358 20; 358 21-25; 361 22; 107 25; 107 iv. 1-4; *103* 3 f.; 43, 70, *108*, 346, 361 5-8; *112* 6; 355 8; 358 9 f.; *113*, 332 11-22; *114*, *115* 11-14; 60, 68, 69 15-18; 60, 72 18; 360 23-28; 61, *116* 28; 358 29-31; 45 f., *117*, *118* v. 1-9; *119*, *120*, 134 1-6; 48, 357, 369 1; 370 3; 360 4; 12 6; 69 7-9; 357, 358, 369 10-14; *120*, *121* 13; 18 14; 84 15-17; *122*, 355 18 f.; *122*, *123* 20-31; *123-125*, 357 22; 365 24; 365 26; 370 29; 358 31; 343, 346, 360 vi. 1-8; *125-127* 9-15; *127-129* 11; 319, 330, 358 13-15; 200 15; 359 16-21; *129*, *130* 22-26; *130*, *131* 26; 359 27-29; *132-134*, 352 27-30; 360 vii-x; 17 vii. 1-15; *147-151*, 346 1-28; 18 3 ff.; 346, 357 12-15; 72 14; 367 15; 359 16-20; *195* 16; 358 19; 360 21-23; *155-159*, 346, 367 28 ff.; 50 30 ff.; 165, *195* viii.; 50 1-3; *196* 4-12; 196, *198-200* 5; 13 7; 69 8 f.; *153*, *154*, 155, 369 10-12; 13, 261, 359, 360 13; *200* 14-ix. 1; 63 f., *200-202* 16; 12 19; 356 21; 12 22; 69 ix.; 50 1; *202* 2-9; *202-204* 2 f.; *341*, *342* 3, 7; 230 4 f.; 369 9; 358 10-12; 204 11; 359 13-16; 204, 208 15; 359 17 ff.; 58, 205 20-22; 58, *205*, *206*, 241 22 f.; 49 23-26; 18, *206*, *207* 24; 357, 371 x. 1-16; 18, 20, 207, 352 6-8; 13 11; 18 17 f.; *207* 19-22; *207-209*, 241, 370 23 f.; 49, *209*, 372 25; *209*, *210* xi.; 30, 42 1-5; 18 1-8; 28, *143-145*, 155, 377 6-8; 13, 17, 18 13; 76 14; 358, 360 15, 16; *151-153*, 210, 346 18 ff.; 28 18-23; *323* f. 20; 330, 371 21; 146 22 f.; 329 xii. 1-6, 28; *339*, *340*, 351 1-2; *160*, *161*, 356 3; 14, 329, 373 5; 332 7-9; 362 7-13; *210-212* 8; 385 9; 230 11; 230, 362 xiii. 1-17; 28 1-11; *183-185* 1; 356 12-14; 55, 185, 358 15, 16; *59* 17; *212* 18, 19; *213* 20-27; *213-215* 22; 360 23; 108, 346 24; 359 25; 361 xiv; 50 1 ff.; *56** f.* 8 f.; 57, *348*, 364 11-16; *50** f.*, 360 12; 346 17-18; 51, *215* 19-22; *216*, *217* 21; 348 22; 356, 365 xv. 1-9; 52, 358 1-4; *217* 5-9; *217*, *218* 7 f.; 359 10; 319 10-21; *324-326* 13, 14; 13 15; 330 18 f.; 332, 347 xvi. 2-9; *326*, *327* 5-9; *219* 10-13; 219, 327 12; 346 14, 15; 18, 219 16-18; 219 19, 20; 220, 356 xvii. 1-4; 13, *220*, 346 5 ff.; *53** f.*, 353 7 f.; 372 9, 10; *108*, *109*, 371 13; 364 14-18; *328* 16; 237 18; 329 19-27; 20 xviii; 82 xviii. 1-12; 28, *185-190*, 355, 360 1; 356 7-10; 84 13-17; *221*, *222* 11 f.; 361 15; 356 17; 359 18-23; *328** f.* 20 f.; 332 xix; *191* xix-xx. 6; 223 1; 356 xx. 1-6; *191*, *192* 2; 321 3 f.; 369 7; 82, 318, 353 7-18; 223 7-12; *330*, *331* 8; 318 9; 319 11; 353 12; 371 14-18; *331*, *332* xxi. 1-10; 223, 267, *268* 7; 358 9; 229, *277-280* 11, 12; 223 13, 14; 223 xxii-xxiii. 8; 16 xxii. 1-5; 223 6 f.; *223*, *224* 8 f.; 224 10; *164* 11 f.; 223 13-17; *166*, *167*, 223, 369 15 f.; 75, 357 18 f.; *167*, *168*, 259, 321 20-30; *224-226* 25 f.; 355 26; 213 xxiii. 1-8; 20 7, 8; 18, 219 9-32; *253-258* 9-40; 16 14, 17, 22; 261 14-17; 361 15; 359 19, 20; 18, 358 21; 265 23 f.; 366, 371 27; 260 28; 264 31; 265, 370 32; 259 xxiv; 28 1; 356 1-9; *238-241*, 309 7; 378 8 ff.; 355 9 f.; 359 xxv; 22 1-11, 13; *179-181* 9; 355 12-14; 20, 181 13-15; 14, *181*, 358 15-38; *182* 26; 20 xxvi; 10, 147, *168-174* 1-9; 18 2; 165, 371 6; 72 13; 357 14, 15; 264 xxvii-xxxv; 10 xxvii, xxviii; 247 xxvii; 234, *248-250* 1; 13 2; 356 5, 6; 355 7; 13 9; 361 12-14; 13 17-22; 13 18; 264 xxviii; 10, 28 2-17; *251-253* 6; 264 xxviii. 11; 264 15; 361, 369 17; 322 xxix; 40 1-23; *241-245* 4-13; 367 14; 13 15; *245* 16-20; 13 21-23; *245*, 261 24-32; *246-247*, 322 29; 237 xxx-xxxiii; 286 xxx, xxxi; 293, 374 f. xxx. 2; 293 5-9; *294**, **295* 10, 11; 13, 295 12-15; *295* 15; 13 16-17; *296* 22; 13 23, 24; 18, 358 xxxi; 30, 42, 286 1-6; *297-300* 6; 141 7-14; 20 7-9; *300**, **301* 10-14; *301**, **302* 15; 47, 70 15-17; *303**, **304* 18-22; *304**, **305* 20; 363 23-28; *305**, **306* 29, 30; 307, *371* 31-34; 307, *375-380* 35 f.; 365 xxxii; 10, 28, 286 1-5; *286*, 355 6-15; 285, 356 6-25; *287-289* 12; 12 16-25; 237 26-44; *289* 30; 356 xxxiii; *289-291* 1; 290 4-13; 290 14-26; 13, 289 xxxiv. 1-7; 267, *268-270* 2; 355 8-22; 235, *273-275* 22; 355 xxxv; *193**, **194* 2; 356 xxxvi-xlv; 10 xxxvi; 17, *22** ff.*, 26, *178**, **179* 2; 82, 356 9; 165 28; 356 32; 89, 110 xxxvii. 3-10; 267, *270**, **271* 5, 7; 234 11; 234 11-21; *275**, **276* 17-21; *284* xxxviii. 1-3; *276-280* 2; 229, 277 4-6; *280**, **281* 7-13; *281* 14-28; *282-285* 19 ff.; 321 22; 369 28; 285, 291 xxxix. 3, 14; *291*, 292 4-13; 13, 291 7; 270 14; 174 15-18; *281**, **282* 18; 229 xl-xliv; 17, 18 xl. 1-6; *291**, **292* 5, 6; 174 xli, xlii; *307-309* xliii. 1-7; *310* 8-13; *310* xliv. 1-14; *311**, **312* 15-28; *312-316* 30; 234 xlv; 17, *226-229* 5; 27, 322 xlvi-li; 10, 14, 20, 181 xlvi. 26; 13 27 f.; 13 xlvii. 1; 13, 384 2, 3; *61* xlviii. 40-47; 13, 20 xlix. 7-22; 20 34-39; 20 l. 1-58; 20 li. 59; 234 60; 20 lii; 10, 20 28-30; 13

Lamentations; 31, 318

Ezekiel— i; 351 viii; 234 xi. 15; 234 xvi. 59; 232 xvii. 11-21; 232 xix. 14; 233 xxiii. 22; 213 xxix. 3; 234

Daniel; 292

Hosea— vi. 1-4; 217

Joel— ii. 1; 112

Amos— iii. 2; 260 6; 112 v. 25; 158 ix. 2 ff.; 366

Obadiah; 20

Micah— vi. 6-8; 75, 158

Zephaniah— iii. 4; 258

Habakkuk— iii. 7; 72

Matthew— xviii. 23 f.; 189 xxvii. 7; 185

Luke— i. 76; 79 vii. 39 ff.; 189 xiii. 6 ff.; 189 xix; 189

1 Corinthians— i. 17; 157

INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS.

Ahikam, 157, 174, 291.

Amos, 3, 22, 112, 158, 260.

Anathoth, 66, 67, 287, etc.

Apocrypha, the, 8.

“Arabian Nights,” 36.

Ark, the, 101.

Assyria, 66, 77, 175.

Atonement, 7.

Baalîm, 76, etc.

Babylonian idolatry, 234.

Ball, C. J., his “The Prophecies of Jeremiah,” 9, 93, 184, 203, 210.

Baruch, 4, 8, 23, 26, 82, 178, 227.

Budde, Professor, 38.

Calvin, 278, 283, 315.

Carchemish, battle of, 175.

Chaldeans, the, 110, 121, 122, etc.

Cornill, 7, 38, 82, 166, 184, 190, 222, 268, 269, 276, 287, 298, 299, 301, 312, 329, 375, etc.

Corvée, the, 166.

Covenant, the new, 374 ff.

Dalman: “Palästinischer Diwan,” 36.

Davidson, Dr. A. B., 3, 5, 15, 26, 139, 186, 268, 354.

Deuteronomy, Book of, 135; its cardinal doctrines, 136; alleged connection of Jeremiah with its composition, 139.

Dirge on the drought, 56.

Douglas, G., 15, 145, 382.

Driver: “The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah,” 111, 133, 147, 181, 239, 296, 312.

Duhm, Professor, 8, 15, 37, 38, 40, 82, 83, 91, 98, 115, 166, 194, 222, 227, 243, 244, 257, 268, 269, 276, 287, 295, 300, 312, 329, 375, etc.

Ebed-Melech, 281.

Edghill, 159.

Egypt, 77, 105, 234, 310.

Ephraim, 72, 297, 299, 304.

Erbt, 38, 48, 133, 190, 227, 256, 268, 314.

Euphrates, 184.

Ewald, 184, 222, 268.

Farah, Wady, 184.

Freedom, the Divine, 186, 237.

Future Life, no hope of, 138, 240, 334, 340, 380.

Gedaliah, 276, 291, 292; assassination, 307.

Gidroth-Chimham, 308.

Giesebrecht, 38, 48, 147, 155, 181, 227, 257, 268, 287, 312, 380.

Gilead, 68, 69, 201, 224.

Gillies, Rev. J. R., 111, 146, 147, 181, 190, 222, 268, 287, 294, 312, 324, 375.

God, man, and the new covenant, 350.

Grotius, 7.

Hananiah, 251.

Hebrew poetry, 33.

Heine, 36, 40.

Herder, 34.

Herodotus, 73, 206, 382.

Hilḳiah, 66.

Hinnom, 185, 191, 195 (Topheth).

Hosea, 4, 44, etc.

Hugo, Victor, 167, 230.

Isaiah, 4, 85, 266, 279, 319, 351.

Ishmael (the fanatic), 307.

Jeconiah (Konyahu), 224.

Jehoahaz, 164.

Jehoiachin, 176 (see Jeconiah).

Jehoiakim, 144, 165, 195.

Jeremiah, personality, 4; biography, 26; as poet, 31; as prose writer, 40; his youth and his call, 66; range of his mission, 79; prophet to the nations, 79; carrier of the Word of the Lord, 83; charge in visions, 84; in the reign of Josiah, 89; his Oracles, 89; alleged pessimism, 108; Oracles on the Scythians, 110; settlement in Jerusalem, 134; alleged connection with the composition of Deuteronomy, 139; attitude to its ethics and to the written law, and to sacrifices, 143; difficulties as to “the Covenant,” 144; conspiracy against, 146; address rebuking the people, 147; contrasts to the teaching of Deuteronomy, 153; enmity of the priests, 168; prediction of the ruin of the Temple, 168; the Rolls, 178; address prophesying judgment upon Judah, 179; parables, 183; arrest, 191; Oracles on the Edge of Doom, 195; hopeful prophecies, 236; vision of the good and bad figs, 238; Letter to the Exiles, 241; treatment of the ’prophets’ in Jerusalem, 245; removal and restoration of the sacred vessels, 250; controversy with other prophets, 258; his prophesying vindicated by history, 259; arrested and flogged, 275; controversy as to suggested surrender, 276; charged with treason and cast into cistern, 280; rescue by Ebed-melech, 281; appeal by the King, 282; “The Book of Hope,” 286; what befel Jeremiah when the city was taken, 291; carried off in chains to Ramah and there released, 292; prophecies of the physical restoration of Israel and Judah, 302; carried off to Egypt, 310; Oracle concerning the Jews in Egypt, 311; the story of his soul, 317; “the Weeping Prophet,” 318; voice of pain and protest, 318; his irony and scorn, 321; fluid and quick temper, 332; poet’s heart for the beauties of nature and domestic life, 334; no hope of another life, 334; faith in his predestination, 335; sacrifice of self, 341; foreshadowing the sufferings of Christ for men, 349; revelations of God subjective, 352; a God of deeds, 354; Jeremiah’s monotheism, 356; brooding on the wrath of the Lord, 358; the love of God, 361; the Divine power in nature, 365; man and the new covenant, 367; readings of the heart of man, 370; the individual as the direct object of the Divine grace and discipline, 372; the prophecy of the new covenant, 374.

Jeremiah (Book of), 9; questions of authorship, 19; the Rolls, 23; Exilic and Post-Exilic additions, 29; poetical passages, 31; critical text, 156; evidence for revelation by argument, 161.

Jerusalem, 113, 125; invested by Nebuchadrezzar, 234; Temple and Palace burned, 235; Jeremiah’s activity and sufferings during the siege, 267; his pronouncements of surrender, 267.

Job, Book of, 49.

Johanan-ben-Kareah, 308.

Josiah, 75, 162, etc.

Knox, John, 266, 272.

König, 145.

“Kurzer Hand-Commentar,” 38.

Lees, Dr. John: “The German Lyric,” 33, 42.

Love, the Divine, 106, 348, 356, etc.

Lowth, Bishop: “De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum,” 33.

Magor-Missabib, 192.

Man and the new covenant, 367.

Marti, 155, 184.

McCurdy, 111.

McFadyen, J. E., 184, 222.

Megiddo, battle of, 163.

Metrical Questions, vii, 32-53 and passim.

Mispah, 292, 308.

Misraim (Egypt), 94, etc.

Nabopolassar, 175.

Nebuchadrezzar, 110, 126, 175, 292, etc.

Nebusaradan, 235, 291, 292.

Nĕcoh, 163, 175, 384.

Nineveh, Fall of, 162, 163, 175, 383.

Nineveh, 175.

Noph (Memphis), 94, 311.

Omnipresence, the Divine, 256, 366.

Oracles on the Edge of Doom, 60, 195.

Parable of the Potter, 82, 185.

Parables, 183.

Pashhur, 191.

Pathros, 311.

Patience, the Divine, 187-189, 217, 237.

Peake, Prof., 146, 147, 184, 222, 268, 273, 274, 279, 287, 293, 312, 375.

Predestination, 78, 186, 335.

Prophets. Personality of the, 3; see also 245-266.

Qînah (metre), 37, 39, 44, 244, 283, 295, 297, etc.

Queen, or Host, of Heaven, 195, 234, 313, 314.

Ramah, 70, 292, 297, 303.

Rechabites, the, 193.

Renan, 308.

Rothstein, 222, 294, 312.

Sacrifice, 130, 152, 155-159, 299, 341.

Saintsbury, George: “History of English Prosody,” 36.

Schmidt, Professor, 24, 25, 111, 382.

Schweich Lectures, 34.

Scythians, the, 73, 82, 110, 381.

Ṣedekiah, 232, and passim to 282.

Shakespeare, 36, 47.

Shiloh, 72, 149, 170.

Skinner, Rev. John, D.D.: his “Prophecy and Religion, Studies in the Life of Jeremiah,” 7, 103, 111, 129, 133, 145, 146, 166, 169, 181, 190, 222, 227, 237, 268, 279, 284, 292, 307, 375, 383.

Slavery, 235; proposed emancipation, 273.

Smith, H. P., 147.

Smith, W. Robertson, 15, 159.

Snouck Hurgronje: “Mekka,” 37.

Stade, B., 267.

Tahpanhes (Daphne), 94, 310, 311.

Tchekov, 198.

Thackeray, St. John: his “The Septuagint and Jewish Worship,” 14.

Thomson, Rev. W. R., 111, 140, 146, 268.

Torah, the, 153, etc.

Urijahu, 173.

Wady Farah, 184.

Wellhausen, 5, 146.

Winckler: “A.T. Untersuchungen,” 142, 176, 382, 383.

FOOTNOTES

1 A. B. Davidson.

2 A. B. Davidson. “Without Jeremiah,” says Wellhausen, “the Psalms could not have been composed.”

3 Cp. e.g. Jer. xi. 19, with Is. liii. 7; and see Grotius, “Annotata ad Vetus Testamentum,” on Is. lii-liii; Cornill, “Das Buch Jeremia erklärt,” pp. 11-12; John Skinner, “Prophecy and Religion,” p. 351.

4 II. Chron. xxxvi. 21 (with a reference to Lev. xxvi. 34, 35) and 22, 23, the latter repeated in Ezra i. 1-2. Duhm, indeed, but on insufficient grounds, thinks the former citation, because of its reference to Leviticus, cannot be from our Book of Jeremiah but is from a Midrash unknown to us; yet the chronicler’s was the very spirit to associate a Levitical provision with Jer. xxix. 10; cp. xxv. 9-12. The other quotation Duhm refers to some part of Is. xl. ff. (xliv. 28?) as though this had at one time been attributed to Jeremiah.

5 In the Apocrypha proper, (1) “Baruch” to which is attached (2) “The Epistle of Jeremy” warning the Jews of Babylon in general and conventional terms against idolatry. Apocalyptic writings, (3) “Apocalypse of Baruch,” (4) (5) and (6) three other “Apocalypses of Baruch,” (7) “The Rest of the Words of Baruch,” or “Paralipomena Jeremiæ,” (8) “Prophecy of Jeremiah.” For particulars of these see “Encyclopædia Biblica,” arts. “Apocalyptic Literature” (R. H. Charles), and “Apocrypha” (M. R. James).

6 Following Hitzig, C. J. Ball (“The Prophecies of Jeremiah” in “The Expositor’s Bible,” 1890, pp. 10 ff.) refers Pss. xxiii, xxvi-xxviii to Jeremiah, and it is possible that in particular the personal experiences in Ps. xxvii are reflections of those of the prophet. But such experiences were so common in the history of the prophets and saints of Israel as to render the reference precarious.

7 It has been calculated that the Greek has 2700 words fewer than the Hebrew, i.e. about 120 verses or from four to five average chapters.

8 E.g. ii. 19, 29; iii. 1; v. 4a; viii. 16, 21; xxxii. 12, etc.

9 nĕ’um Yahweh: utterance or oracle of Jehovah.

10 E.g. the words at his mouth, xxxvi. 17; xxxviii. 16.

11 E.g. Jerusalem in viii. 5, and in xxxvi. 22 the ninth month.

12 E.g. ii. 1-2; xxv. 1b; xxvii. 1; xlvii. 1; l. 1.

13 E.g. viii. 10ab-12; x. 6-8; xi. 7, 8; xvii. 1-4 (perhaps omitted by the Greek, because partly given already in xv. 13, 14); xxv. 18 and a curse as at this day; xxvii. 1, 7, 12b, 13, 14a, 17, 18b, clauses in 19, 20, the whole of 21, and 22b; xxix. 14, 16-20; xxx. 10, 11 (= xlvi. 27 f.), 15a, 22; xxxiii. 14-26; xxxix. 4-13; xvi. 26; xlvii. 1 (except to the Philistines); xlviii. 45-47; lii. 28-30.

14 E.g. i. 10, 17, 18; ii. 17, 19; vii. 28b; xii. 3; xiv. 4, etc.

15 Verse 14 is not found in the Greek.

16 In his Schweich Lectures on “The Septuagint and Jewish Worship” (for the British Academy, 1921) Mr. St. John Thackeray presents clear evidence from the different vocabularies in the Greek Version that this Version was the work of two translators, the division between whom is at Ch. xxix. verse 7. The dividing line cuts across the Greek arrangement of the chapters, which sets the Oracles on Foreign Nations in the centre of the Book. This shows that it was not the translators who placed them there, but that the translators found the arrangement in the Hebrew MS. from which they translated. Further, he thinks that the division of the Book into two parts was not made by the translators, but already existed in their Hebrew exemplar. For this the Hebrew text gives two evidences: (1) the titles of the Oracles, (2) the colophons appended to two of them. The titles are some long, some short. In the Hebrew order the Oracles with long titles are mixed up with those with short, but in the Greek order the six with long titles come together first and are followed by the five with short. There are two colophons—one to the Moab Oracle, the other to the Babylon Oracle; but the Moab Oracle stands last in the Greek order and the Babylon Oracle last in the Hebrew order.

From all this two conclusions are drawn: (1) when the titles were inserted the chapters were arranged as in the Greek, which, therefore, was the original arrangement; (2) they afford Hebrew evidence for a break or interruption in the middle of the Oracles—the longer titles cease about the end of Part I of the Greek Version, which therefore follows a division of the Book into two parts that already existed in the Hebrew original from which it was made. The Hebrew editor who amplified the titles had apparently only