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Excerpt from The Ancient Coptic Version of the Book of Job the Just: Translated Into English, and Edited IT may perhaps be sufficient to state here, that the Coptic Version of the Scriptures was made at a very early period of the Christian era. This Version of the Old Testament, ' like all the other ancient Versions of it, was made from the Greek d104, and not from the original Hebrew. The Coptic Version of the Book of Job is now for the first time presented to the public, through the medium of the press. It has been printed from a. Separate Manuscript of that Book, in Coptic and Arabic in parallel columns, as far as Chap. Xix. V. 23, where the Arabic ceases. This was copied, while I was in Egypt, from an ancient one in the Patriarch's library in Cairo. I afterwards collated it, while in Malta, in June 1839, with an old Manuscript in Coptic, belonging to the Rev. Mr. Schleinz and I have since collated it with another ancient Manuscript in Coptic, without an Arabic translation, kindly presented to me by Lord Prudhoe, since my return from Egypt. I therefore believe the text is as perfect as Manuscripts would enable me to make it. A few errors whichare left in the text, uncorrected by the other Manu scripts, I have noticed in the margin. I now send forth the work to the public, in the earnest hope that the remaining parts of the text of the Coptic Version of the Scriptures will be preserved in the same way, for the future benefit of the Coptic Church, by whom it is acknowledged as their standard Version. I also feel assured, that its value and im portance will be appreciated by the Biblical Critic and Divine. I trust the English translation, which is as literal as it could be made, will be found throughout the volume to speak faithfully the sense of the original. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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