The rendering of the
refrain in the preliminary verses does not seem very happy in its
English (A.V. and K.V.).
TITLE AND POSITION.
TITLE.
Forming, as it does, an integral portion of the third chapter of the
Greek Daniel, the principal MSS. give the Song, in that place, no
independent title. It falls of course under the general title of the
whole Book, Daniel.
Van Ess in his LXX (Lips. 1835) entitles it ? ???????µ?…?‡??? ????¶?±???????… ???±??¶ ??•???????‚
?„??¶?? ?„??????¶??, but as he puts this heading in curved brackets it is possibly
merely his own insertion. 'B' is the codex which he is professing to
follow in his text; but that MS. is credited with no such title in Dr.
Swete's Greek Old Testament; nor do Holmes and Parsons shew any
knowledge of it as existing in any of their MSS.
In the Veronese Graeco-Latin Psalter it is headed ??????????‚ ?„??¶?? ???±?„????‰??
???????¶??, and in the Turin Psalter ??????????‚ ?„??¶?? ?„??????¶?? ???±??????¶??, which title it
inserts again at v. 57, strangely regarding that verse as the
commencement of a fresh canticle with a new number, ????.
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