ἐγγισάτω] Here prob. transitive, as the Heb.; cf. ver. 8. ἴδωμεν] Β and six cursives read ειδ-, but ι is prob. right. The
sense of Heb. is not absolutely decisive, see xxvi. 11. ἔλθοι] 50 Α, and possibly the original reading: ℵQV and most
cursives ἐλθέτω, Β ἐλθάτω. Α omits Ἰσραήλ, with 106, against Heb.
probably by inadvertence. 20. Delitzsch compares Matt. vi. 23, James iii. ιι. Nearly all
sagacious moralists have insisted on the duty of keeping the truth of
terms in language: see, in the first place, xxxii. 5 Heb., and the
implication in ix. 10, xxviii. 15, xxx. 9, 10, 15, 16. Thucydides m. 82 marks how, in the disorganization of Greek
society, τὴν εἰωθυῖαν ἀξίωσιν τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐς τὰ ἔργα ἀντήλλαξαν τῇ
δικαιώσει. τόλμα μὲν γὰρ ἀλόγιστος ἀνδρία φιλέταιρος ἐνομίσθη, μέλλησις·
δᾶ προμηθὴς δειλία εὐπρεπής, τὸ δὲ σῶφρον τοῦ ἀνάνδρου πρόσχημα, κ.τ.λ.