Book 2 · Introduction

Notes

1. 1

   Jer. xvii. 9.

2. 2

   Num. xxiv. 17.

3. 3

   [Here the English (q. v.) gives the more literal reading, which the Septuagint treats as a proverb, unfolding its sense. “Water from the bucket” seems to have signified the same as our low proverb “a chip from the block,” hence = a Son from the Father. Num. xxiv. 7.]

4. 4

   The Oxford translator follows the English version, and reads, “over Agag.”

5. 5

   Num. xxiv. 7–9.

6. 6

   Isa. lxi. 1, 2.

7. 7

   Luke i. 35.

8. 8

   “Limo.”

9. 9

   1 Cor. xv. 47–49.