R. Thomson, "The Burden of the Lord," p.
66; and virtually so, Peake, i. 11-14.

280 So, too, H. P. Smith, "O.T. History," p. 278, n. 2; while Duhm,
Giesebrecht, Davidson, Driver, Gillies, Peake and Skinner all take
vii. 1-15 and xxvi. to refer to the same occasion early in
Jehoiakim's reign. Duhm and Skinner remark on an apparently
incoherent association of Place ( = Holy Place) and Land in vii.
3-7. The clause about the Land may be a later addition. Yet in
verses 13-15 (the substance of which Skinner admits to be genuine)
the destruction of the Holy Place and ejection of the people from
the Land are _both_ threatened.

281 So simply the Greek; the longer Hebrew title, verses 1, 2 may be an
expansion by an editor, who took vii. 1-15 as reporting the same
speech as xxvi. 1 ff. In verse 3 Hebrew reads _Lord of Hosts_.

282 Greek adds _for they will be absolutely of no avail to you_.

283 So Syriac.

284 Or _there they are!_--plural because of the complex of buildings.

285 It is doubtful whether this verb, meaning in earlier Hebrew _to make
any burnt offering_ was already confined to its later meaning, _to
burn incense_.

286 So Greek.

287 Much within these brackets is lacking in the Greek.

288 Hebrew _all_.

289 Verses 9, 25, 29, etc.

290 See above, p. 72.

_ 291 Vows_, so Greek, but Lucian _fat pieces_ (Lev. vi. 5); _by these
thou escape_, so Greek, Hebrew _then mightest thou rejoice_.

292 ii. 8, see above, p. 92.

293 Cp. the similar charge of Christ against the scribes.

294 xi. 1 ff.; so Giesebrecht on viii. 8.

295 Marti, _Gesch. der Isr. Religion_, 154, 166; Duhm, and especially
Cornill, _in loco_.

296 Hebrew adds _of Hosts, the God of Israel_.

297 The former were not, the latter were in part, eaten by the
worshipper; but it does not matter if now he eats them all alike!

298 xi. 1 ff.: above, pp. 143 ff.

299 Sam. xv. 22, Hos. vi. 6. Those who take the passage relatively also
quote Paul's words that Christ sent him not to baptize but to preach
the gospel, 1 Cor. i. 17.

300 Amos v. 25; Micah vi. 6-8; Ps. l. 13, 14; li. 16, 17.

301 See Robertson Smith, "The O.T. in the Jewish Church," 2nd ed., 203,
295 (1892), and Edghill, "The Evidential Value of Prophecy" (1904),
274, one of the best works on the O.T. in our time.