[334]. Most MSS “his breakfast.”
[335]. Other MSS “sustenance.”
[336]. Or “when they ask an alms.”
[337]. Or “display”; lit. “just stewards” or “dispensers.”
[338]. Or “leaders in.”
[339]. MSS “the person who.”
[340]. Or “roots that act as charms.”
[341]. i. e. probably, charms or amulets.
[342]. On this paragraph see Lightfoot, Colossians, 8 p. 89 f. note. Lightfoot, connecting the passage with Ant. VIII. 2. 5, § ([6]) above, regards the “writings” as Solomonian books and the Essenes as primarily dealers in charms, rather than physicians.
[343]. The inconsistency of this with the attitude of the sect towards swearing as recorded in a previous paragraph is remarkable.