52. _He who knoweth the heart and exploreth the person_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. This is so exactly the equivalent of “Searching the heart and trying the reins” of Jeremiah (xvii, 10), that we might have expected to find something like it in the Coptic version of the Bible. But there we have nothing but a close adherence to the sense of the Septuagint, and even to such a word as δοκιμάζειν. 53. _Who provideth for._ ⁂⁂⁂ is the equivalent of the Greek φρονεῖν in the inscription of Tanis, and of μέριμνα in the Demotic text of the verses of Moschion. The Coptic form is ⲙⲉⲩⲓ, ⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ, which stands for φρονεῖν in Phil. iv, 10, “Your _care_ of me, wherein ye also were _careful_.” Thoth is thus represented as the divine Providence, which takes care of the universe. The same view is found in a text at Edfu. 54. _The Eye_ of Horus; see latter part of Note 2, of this chapter. ----- Footnote 111: Apparently suggested by the scene in the tomb of Hor-em-heb (see _Denkm._, III, 78), in the time of Amenophis III. (Plate XXXII, fig. 15.) Footnote 112: The picture of the Babe lifted up into the upper world by two divinities speaks for itself. Of the birth of the Sun as the Winged Scarab at the beginning of the first hour of the day, M. Maspero, in his description of the text, says: “Il est salué à ton apparition par les huit ... ‘les esprits d’Orient, dieux du ciel, des terres, des pays étrangers, de la montagne d’horizon orientale qui est On.’” Footnote 113: This is the principle by which to judge the cases of the _Facing-backward_ god ⁂⁂⁂⁂ serpentine, or crocodile ⁂⁂⁂, and of Uammeta ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, against both of whom a passage of the ‘Book of Hades’ (Bonomi, _Sarc._, pl. II A) has been quoted. The book, of course, is of inferior authority to the ‘Book of the Dead,’ but in any case it must be remembered that these names, as appellatives, are _common_ nouns (_Uammeta_ is in the _plural_ number in the passage in question), and may simply mean _Serpents_. Sutu is called by the first of these names at Edfu (_Zeitschr._, 1871, p. 108). But even at Dendera (Lanzone, _Diz._, pl. 173, 1) this ‘god of serpent face’ is ‘disastrous to the Sebau,’ the enemies of Osiris and Rā, and is therefore not one of them. His soul is invoked like those of all the great gods in the royal tombs. Footnote 114: The ⁂ is not to be read _fi_ or _fy_. The sign ⁂ is merely the ideogram of the number 2, like the letter ⲃ in Coptic. The belief in an Egyptian dual with ⁂ as a final syllable is an illusion, though a very pardonable one, of our grammarians. Footnote 115: Or _Vultures_. _See_ M. Gayet’s _Temple de Luxor_, Pl. xliii, fig. 127, where the Bird at each end of the picture holds ⁂ in its claw. And note the tabernacles (a very frequent picture) where a winged goddess bearing the ⁂ kneels on either side of the solar scarab. Footnote 116: