6. The last words of the chapter were extremely puzzling to the scribes of the later periods, who altered them in ever so many ways. The older MSS. read ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. And this is borrowed from an ancient text, which may be found on the sarcophagus of Horhotep, line 338. The variants ⁂⁂, ⁂⁂, of the papyri, and ⁂⁂ of the sarcophagus show that it is the sacrificial joint which is meant, and not a verb as the scribes of a later period thought. For this verb they had to discover an object and accordingly we find ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ ‘I trod _their caverns_.’ ⁂⁂⁂⁂ was in like manner converted into a verb. See the introductory note to chapter 29. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XXIX. _Chapter whereby the Heart of a person may not be taken from him in the Netherworld._ Back thou Messenger(1.) of thy god! Art thou come to carry off by violence(2.) this Whole Heart of mine, of the Living XYZZY(3.) But I shall not surrender to thee this Heart of the Living. The gods have regards to my offerings and fall upon their faces, all together, upon their own earth. NOTES. The two most ancient copies of this chapter are found upon the coffins of Amamu, Plate XXX, and of Horhotep, _Mission Arch. Française au Caire_, t. 1, p. 157, lines 335-337. The papyrus of Ani is the only one of the early period in which it occurs. None of these texts is perfect. A part of the text of Amamu has been destroyed, but there remains enough to show that Horhotep has omissions. And in the text of Ani the word ⁂⁂⁂ has slipped in from the 28th chapter, and is entirely out of place where it now stands. The scribes of a later period had to exercise their ingenuity on the subject. They changed ⁂⁂⁂ _ḫenṭu_ into ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _ḫenȧ_, and this being itself a disagreeable word, they prefixed to it a negative ⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂. 1. _Messenger_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂, a word used here and elsewhere in religious texts in the same sense as מַלְאָךְ an angel, ambassador of God. The later texts have ⁂⁂⁂ ‘every god,’ by the change of ⁂ into ⁂. 2. _By violence_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. _Cf._ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, Harris Papyrus, 500, _verso_. 3. _The Living_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ and saved, in opposition to the Dead and damned. This plural form is a mere sign of a common noun. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XXIXB. _Another Chapter of the Heart; upon Carnelian._ I am the Heron, the Soul of Râ, who conduct the Glorious ones to the Tuat. It is granted to their Souls to come forth upon the Earth to do whatsoever their Genius willeth. It is granted to the soul of the Osiris _N_ to come forth upon the Earth to do whatsoever his Genius willeth. NOTE.