PPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, 25 _and I wrote the deed and
sealed it_, 33_b_ _still_, 43 _again_.

605 The custom was to have one copy open for reference, and one sealed
for confirmation if the open one should be disputed. To _sealed_
Hebrew adds _the injunction and conditions_.

606 The numerous emendations are purely conjectural; the least
unsatisfactory being Cornill's: _The houses ... shall be torn down
against which the Chaldeans are coming to fight with mounds and
sword and to fill with the corpses of men whom I have smitten in my
wrath_, etc.

607 One may eliminate the few words not found in Greek, and naturally
suspect the liturgical clause in 11. Some take 13 as a late
expansion of 12.

608 xxxviii. 28.

609 Verse 14 follows directly on verse 3. The statement that Nebusaradan
was one of them is in verse 13 which belongs to the very late
section, 4-13, lacking in the Greek.

610 Hebrew: lit. _to the house_; Greek omits.

611 Either Neby Samwil or Tell-en-Nasb, both a few miles north of
Jerusalem. The above exposition takes xxxix. 3, 14 and xl. 1-6 as
supplementary. But some read them as variants of the same episode,
debating which is the more reliable. For a full discussion see
Skinner, pp. 272 ff.

612 Hebrew, _the forces_ (Greek, _the force_) _in the field_.

613 The oscillations of this controversy have been recently so fully
recounted (by Cornill and Peake) that it is unnecessary to repeat
them here.

614 Whether the datum xxx. 2, that Jeremiah was commanded by the Lord to
write the words spoken to him in a book, is historical, is
uncertain. It is not impossible that as he had been moved to write
down his Oracles of doom (xxxvi) he should now be similarly advised
about these later Oracles of hope. The rejection of xxx. 2, by most
critics, seems to me rash.

615 This in answer to Rothstein (Kautzsch's "Heilige Schrift des A. T.,"
754), whose upper date for them _after_ 597 is too early, and to
Gillies (p. 238) who refers them to the Prophet's imprisonment.

616 Hebrew adds the gloss _like a bearing woman_.

617 So Greek, reading {~HEBREW LETTER HE~}{~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} for {~H