Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

Cf. Targum Ps. Jon. of Gen. xxxvii. 2 .

The narrative of Genesis ( xxxvii. 28 ) gives twenty pieces of silver; the LXX. twenty pieces of gold, with which latter agrees Josephus’ μνῶν εἴκοσιν ( Antiq ., ii. 3. 3). [It is worthy of note that Judas took a meaner price for the “Son of Joseph.”]

For this unusual use of ὀλιγοψυχία , cf. Prov. xiv. 29 , LXX., where there is the same contrast with μακροθυμία .

[This passage is cited by Lardner as conspicuously fine.]

[ Wis. xi. 16 .]

The Ox. ms . omits from here to the last clause of c. 7.

For δολωφωνῆσαι , the reading of the Cam. ms . here, Grabe conjectured δολοφονήσει . Probably δολοφωνήσει is to be preferred.

[The Virgin was the daughter of Judah, but had kinship with Levi. Luke i. 36 . Compare Jer. xxxiii. 20–22 .]