588 So Greek: Hebrew _unto all the people_. 589 Greek lacks _to him_ and Syriac the last clause. 590 Greek _For thus_. 591 See above, p. 232. 592 Calvin’s discriminating remarks on xxxviii. 2, in No. cxlvii of his prelections on the Book of Jeremiah, are well worth reading. See, too, Peake (p. 24) and Skinner (261 ff.). 593 So Greek. Hebrew takes this clause as part of Ṣedekiah’s reply: _the king is not able to do anything against you_. 594 Greek again is devoid of the repetitions, etc., that overload the Hebrew. 595 Hebrew adds _sitting_, an obvious intrusion (not in Greek), for in the siege the king would hardly hold council in the Benjamin-Gate. 596 Greek reads that he charged not _the princes_ but _the king_. The text of 9 is uncertain. Duhm thinks the original meant that the princes wished Jeremiah’s death so as to save bread. 597 Hebrew and versions _thirty_, differing little from the Hebrew for _three_, which is now generally read. 598 xxxix. 15-18. 599 xxxviii. 14-28; Greek agrees with Hebrew save for its usual omissions as well as _secretly_, 16. Both read _the third entry of the Lord’s House_, which some, by adding a letter, would change to _entry of the Shalishim_ or _guards_; unnecessarily, as Haupt shows. 600 After the deportation of 597. 601 So Greek; Hebrew reads _thy feet are plunged_, and omits _from thee_; 23 is a late expansion. 602 Pp. 258-9 n., thus exceeding Steuernagel’s and Buttenwieser’s readings of parts of it as a variant of xxxvii. 603 xxxviii. 28. 604 Duhm and Cornill take as original only 6-15; Giesebrecht reasonably adds 16, _Ah Lord Yahweh_ in 17, 24, 25, and in the main 26-44, from which probably more deductions should be made than he makes. Gillies (270 ff.) takes 16-25 as later reflections on a prayer by Jeremiah, 24-41 as editorial, 42-44 as bringing us back to the actual situation. This is safer than Peake’s distinction of 16, 24-26, 36-44 as genuine (slightly qualified by his notes). Hebrew and Greek throughout are the same, save for the usual Greek omissions, and these are more in the narrative 1-15 (especially 5_b_, 11_b_, 14 _these deeds_ with _it_ for _them_ and _they_, while in 8 for Hebrew _the redemption is thine_ it has _thou art the elder_) than in the prayer and the divine answer (30_b_, 36 _captivity_ for _pestilence_, 41 _visit_ for _rejoice over_). In 6 for Hebrew _me_ Greek has _Jeremiah_, but confirms the 1st person in 8, 9-13, 16, 25, and in 26 has _me_ for Hebrew _Jeremiah_. Greek, too, has some of its unusual surplus: 8 _Shallum_, 12 _son of_, 19 ὁ θεος ὁ μέγας ὁ παντοκράτωρ καὶ μεγαλώνυμος Κύριος, 25 _and I wrote the deed and sealed it_, 33_b_ _still_, 43 _again_.