{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">12. I had nearly forgotten an additional remark I have\r\nto make about the <span lang=\"grc\"><i>prino-prisein</i></span> and <span lang=\"grc\"><i>schino-schisein</i></span> difficulty;\r\nthat is, that in our Scriptures there are many etymological\r\nfancies, so to call them, which in the Hebrew are perfectly\r\nsuitable, but not in the Greek. It need not surprise us, then,\r\nif the translators of the History of Susanna contrived it so\r\nthat they found out some Greek words, derived from the\r\nsame root, which either corresponded exactly to the Hebrew\r\nform (though this I hardly think possible), or presented some\r\nanalogy to it. Here is an instance of this in our Scripture.\r\nWhen the woman was made by God from the rib of the\r\nman, Adam says, “She shall be called woman, because she\r\nwas taken out of her husband.” Now the Jews say that the\r\nwoman was called “<i>Essa</i>,” and that “taken” is a translation\r\nof this word, as is evident from “<i>chos isouoth essa</i>,” which\r\nmeans, “I have taken the cup of salvation;”<a id=\"r1106\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1106\"><sup>[1106]</sup></a> and that “<i>is</i>”\r\nmeans “man,” as we see from “<i>Hesre aïs</i>,” which is, “Blessed\r\nis the man.”<a id=\"r1107\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1107\"><sup>[1107]</sup></a> According to the Jews, then, “<i>is</i>” is “man,”\r\nand “<i>essa</i>” “woman,” because she was taken out of her husband\r\n(<i>is</i>). It need not then surprise us if some interpreters\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_384\">384</span>of the Hebrew “Susanna,” which had been concealed among\r\nthem at a very remote date, and had been preserved only by\r\nthe more learned and honest, should have either given the\r\nHebrew word for word, or hit upon some analogy to the\r\nHebrew forms, that the Greeks might be able to follow them.\r\nFor in many other passages we can find traces of this kind\r\nof contrivance on the part of the translators, which I noticed\r\nwhen I was collating the various editions.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","LETTERS.","A LETTER FROM ORIGEN TO AFRICANUS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-378"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"096ee3b90244607716440ccfe8cdd883a14a892889f6f9557e9fe6200b1e7da8","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. i. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1107","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1107","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1107\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1107\">1107</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"one\">i.</abbr> 1.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1107","text_sha256":"92f564585454c586c0af326bd383f274c423da84b6e9c33119956c59d8f1f661","verified":false,"work_id":null}