[678] Lev. xxiii. 34, 36, 40-42. [679] _By the hand of._ [680]‎ הֲלאֹ כָמֹהוּ כְאַיִן בְּעֵינֵיכֶם. Literally, _is not the like of it as nothing in your eyes_? But that can hardly be the meaning. It might be equivalent to _is it not, as it stands, as nothing in your eyes?_ But the fact is that in Hebrew construction of a simple, unemphasised comparison, the comparing particle כ stands before _both_ objects compared: as, for instance, in the phrase (Gen. xliv. 18) כִּי כָמוֹךָ כְּפַרְעֹה, _thou art as Pharaoh_. [681] Literally: _be strong_. [682] It is difficult to say whether _high priest_ belongs to the text or not. [683] Here occurs the anacolouthic clause, introduced by an acc. without a verb, which is not found in the LXX. and is probably a gloss (see above, p. 241): _The promise which I made with you in your going forth from Egypt_. [684] Hebrew has singular, _costly thing_ or _desirableness_, חֶמְדַּת (fem, for neut.), but the verb _shall come_ is in the plural, and the LXX. has τα ἐκλεκτά, _the choice things_. See below, next page. [685] The LXX. add a parallel clause καὶ εἰρήνην φυχῆς εἰς περιποίησιν παντὶ τῷ κτίζοντι τοῦ ἀναστῆσαι τὸν ναὸν τοῦτον, which would read in Hebrew וְשַׁלְוַת נֶפֶשׁ לְחַיּוֹת כָּל־הַיֹֹּסֵד לְקוֹמֵם הַהֵיכָל הַזֶּה. On חיות Wellhausen cites 1 Chron. xi. 8, = _restore_ or _revive_. [686]‎ = חֶמְדַּת _longing_, 2 Chron. xxi. 2, and _object of longing_, Dan. xi. 37. It is the feminine or neuter, and might be rendered as a collective, _desirable things_. Pusey cites Cicero’s address to his wife: _Valete, mea desideria, valete_ (_Ep. ad Famil._, xiv. 2 fin.). [687]‎ חֲמֻדֹת plural feminine of pass. part., as in Gen. xxvii. 15, where it is an adjective, but used as a noun = _precious things_, Dan. xi. 38, 43, which use meets the objection of Pusey, _in loco_, where he wrongly maintains that _precious things_, if intended, must have been expressed by מַחֲמַדֵּי. [688] ἥξει τὰ ἐκλεκτὰ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν. Theodore of Mopsuestia takes it as _elect persons of all nations_, to which a few moderns adhere. [689] Augustini _Contra Donatistas post Collationem_, cap. xx. 30 (Migne, _Latin Patrology_, XLIII., p. 671). [690] Calvin, _Comm. in Haggai_, ii. 6-9. [691] Deut. xvii. 8 ff.: עַל־פּי הַתּוֹרָה אֲשֶׁר יוֹרוּךָ. Compare the expression כּוֹהֵן מוֹרֶה, in 2 Chron. xv. 3, and the duties of the teaching priests assigned by the Chronicler (2 Chron. xvii. 7-9) to the days of Jehoshaphat. [692] Note that it is not _the Torah_, but _a Torah_.