* that day.
19,21 2:11 Zec 2:11
* shall five.
11:11 27:13 Ps 68:31
* speak.
Zep 3:9
* language. Heb. lip.
Ge 11:1
* and swear.
45:23,24 De 10:20 Ne 10:29 Jer 12:16
* destruction. Heb. Heres, or, the sun.
Instead of {heres,} "destruction," which is also the reading
of Aquila, Theodotion, and the Syriac, fifteen MSS. and seven
editions have {cheres,} "the sun;" agreeable to Symmachus, the
Arabic, and Vulagte; while the Chaldee takes in both readings;
and the LXX. reads [polis asedek,] "the city
of righteousness," a name apparently contrived by the party of
Onias, to give credit to his temple. As, however, {heres} in
Arabic signifies a lion, Conrad Ikenius is of opinion that the
place here mentioned is not Heliopolis, as is commonly
supposed, but Leontopolis in the Heliopolitan nome, as it is
termed in the letter of Onias to Ptolemy. The whole passage,
from this verse to the end, contains a general intimation of
the propagation of the knowledge of the true God in Egypt and
Syria, under the successors of Alexander, and the early
reception of the gospel in the same countries.
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