Two Scholia on Genesis XXII. 13

VI.

Two Scholia on Genesis XXII. 13 . In the edition of the LXX. published by Card. Caraffe, 1581.

The Syriac and the Hebrew use the word “suspended,”[1] as more clearly typifying the cross.

The word Sabek[2] some have rendered remission,[3] others upright,[4] as if the meaning, agreeing with the popular belief, were—a goat walking erect up to a bush, and there standing erect caught by his horns, so as to be a plain type of the cross. For this reason it is not translated, because the single Hebrew word signifies in other languages[5] many things. To those, however, who ask it is proper to give an answer, and to say that Sabek denotes lifted up.[6]