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Perhaps "in a row," should be read.
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For the use of spittle to produce a cure or other effect in a magical way, cp. Mark vii. 33 and viii. 23. In John ix. 6, Jesus, we read, "spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes with the clay." Of this magic use of spittle Pliny, in his Natural History, gives numerous examples. It was common in antiquity.
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Rom. xv. 6 has the same phrase. For "thirty-three" we should read "thirty-six" elements. Note that later in the Testament these seven spirits are not among the Kosmokrators, a proof that the document before us is a composite one.
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See I Kings ii. 25.
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radinos, "slender tapering" is suggested by Bornemann as the true reading, because a "staff" might be such.
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The three characters are apparently the numbers
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bubá, an unknown word.
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stamatihu, an unknown verb.
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[i.e. copulate.]
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Perhaps "the place or size of the heavenly body."
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xmd.
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"descent, or spiritual assault."
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basaníxeis. Cp. Matt. viii. 6, 29; xiv. 24; Mark v. 7.
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kosmokratores. Cp. Paul, Eph. vi. 12; Origen, c. Celsum, viii, 58.
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Cp. Rom. viii. 38.
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There seems to be here a lacuna in the MS.
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Bornemann suggests that the gate of the Temple called Beautiful (Acts iii. 2, 10) is referred to.
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2 Tim. iii. 8.
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utheìs (sic) stands in the MS.; perhaps taîs theaîs should be read.
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And behold, when the Temple of the city of Jerusalem was being built, and the artificers were working thereat, Ornias the demon came among them toward sunset; and he took away half of the pay of the chief-deviser's (?)1 little boy, as well as half his food. [16] He also continued to suck the thumb of his right hand every day. And the child grew thin, although he was very much loved by the king.
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[D omits the last sentence.]