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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... Exegesis, and Vulgate superscription or sentences of the Explanatio, where necessary, from which it was drawn. This reproduction, however, should be prefaced by an explanation of the method which the Anglo-Saxon translator has followed in paraphrasing his original. As the method is the same in all cases, the subject can best be illustrated by a specific example and I will select for the purpose Ps. 33, only omitting here the alternative mystical interpretation of the Latin commentary, as that is not used in the case of this psalm. The Anglo-Saxon translator had before him in his original, first, the argumentum, then the Vulgate superscription for the psalm, as follows: Argumentum. Ezechias, victo Assyrio, semper Dominum benedicere promittit et angelum adjutorem sibi precatur immitti, moxque ad exemplum sut cunctos in Dei laudem provocat.... Psalmus David cum mutavit vultum suum coraru Abirnelech et dimisit eum et abiit. Exegesis, p. 651. Compare the corresponding Anglo-Saxon introduction: Dauid sang ysne reo and mttigoSan sealm, gehatende Drihtne fyset he hine symle wolde bletsian, for sem gifum e he him geaf; and he wilnode on sem sealme, set him God sende his godcundne engel on his fultum; and he lserde eac, on sem sealme, selcne man e sefter him wsere, set he set ylce dyde; and he witgode eac, on sem sealme, be Ezechie am kincge, set he sceolde set ylce don sefter am sige, e he hsefde wrS Assirium; and set ylce he witgode be Criste, 3dt he set ylce don wolde, and eac oSre lseran. Thorpe, p. 74. (1) The translator is instructed, then, by the Vulgate superscriptiftn that the psalm is a psalm of David's applied to circumstances of his own (David's) life. He finds in the argumentum, however, a totally different interpretation of the same psalm, connecting ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235732622
- ISBN 13 9781235732621
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages40
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