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vero cautelam in his perinde utantedictis vocalibus adhibui, ut ii# earum diversitas diversum pareretverbum vel senium - Alex, lectio-nem exterior paginae ora , emen-datam ipse contextus exhiberet.Quod denique attinet confusionemvodalium ac diphthongorum, quaerarilsime occurrit , verbi gratia& ot , & aliarum similium , de eaLectorem in margine submonereplacuit. Vide Deut. 8. v. 12. &Ruth. 4. v. 11. Sed satis de vocali-bus ac diphthongis inter se permu-tatis. Caeterum augmenta earun-dem vix uspiam in omni Qffateucboobservavi, praeterquam Levit, c. 14.v. 7. ubi in Alex, scriptum& v. 16. i*ni 7 .

§. 7. Literarum consonantiumpermutationes quod attinet, v ali-quando conversum in proxime se-quentem consonam : unde s^i<ru>pro e* Genes, c. 3. V. 3. & 8.aliisque in locis frequentissime; ali-quando tamen e* , veluti Fo-fute c. 15. V. 13- & c. 19. v. 9. quo-modo nos semper excudi fecimus;ut 6 c e» pro iyyassi , proutGenes, c. 25. v. 21. & c. 38- v. 18.24.25. &c. in Alex, scriptum. Con-tra vero in verbis compositis, ubinos y loco " ponere solemus?,MS. nativum » servat: unde Ge-nes. c 34. v. 1. hxji%tov' Levit, c. 13.V- 30. ivKoiKori^ßi • c. 14. V. 34. ivxlv-Num. c. 11. v. 8- '«? c. 31.

V. 9. ivK.Tii/j.am • Deut. C. 27. V- 20 .rvv/.txAvfA,fAct‘ £fosu& C. 22. V. 3. ivKccm-

A£I 5 TWT£" C. 23 . V. 12 . «‘VVKXTU/JUyttTi'

pro quibus in nostra Editione legi-mus iyxvgtov, tynoiAoTi ^, &c. Pa-ri ratione pro irnviov, ut jfofu<e c. 10.V. 28. 30. 35. 37. 39- 40. &c. C. 11.

v. 11. 14. scriptum est, ipmtov ex-primendum duximus ; at vero Ge-nes. c. 12. v. 20. & c. 18. v. 16. necnon Deut. 20. v. 16. nativum v ino-vvTv^aTskfA^xt 8 c c. retinuimus. Acalibi quoque ratione r & 5- a vulga-ta scribendi consuetudine receden-tes, ciiro;tx<pr,Ti cum MS. posuimuspro Num. c. 23. V. 16.

nec in margine diversam Alex. Co-dicis literam apposuimus, nisi ubidiversus ex promiscuo usu oriretursensus, velusi Deut. c. 32. v- 11.Contra vero ubi r Sc $ permutavitLibrarius , quod major sit harumconsonarum differentia, eam inmargine annotandam censui, prae-ter pro ’a£s$- , Judic. c. 9. v.3 Z., quod quoniam alio insuperlaborat vitio, inter errata retuli.Similiter commutationes literarum* X & y aut in margine aut intererrata notavi, exceptis verbis, inquibus saepius hac anomalia occur-rit, nempe in vel

fjta.m. pro $$dypa.TK Genes, c. 37. V. 7.ter ; Styvvw Exod. C. 25. V. 9. SuyvvuvDeut. c. 1. v. 33- similiter in e* 3 -?£iLffXinv Num. C. 33. V- 55.

Deut. c. 2. v. 12. & Deut.

c.28. v. 48- Sed haec postrema po-tius additionibus literarum sunt ac-censenda quarum cum itidemexempla quamplurima in Cod.Alex, occurrant, quousque eum inhac Editione secutus sim , brevibusdicam. Nimirum iQtAxtfiKov sae-pius in MS. additum verbis , licetconsona sequatur , ubicunque ha-betur, retinui, cum id Lectoremturbare nequeat ; secus autem innominibus Accusativi casus desi-nentis in <* , veluti <tkv 1 ^mv Exod. c.8. V. 18 . C. 10 . V. 4 *

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