[767] Ἄ—τλας, unsuffering.
[768] The Chaldaic תֵּיבוּתָא. The Hebrew is תֵּבָה, Sept. κιβωτός, Vulg. arca.
[769] Eph. v. 23.
[770] 1 Cor. xi. 3; 2 Cor. xi. 31.
[771] And the whole place is very correctly called the Logeum (λογεῖον), since everything in heaven has been created and arranged in accordance with right reason (λόγοις) and proportion (Philo, vol. iii. p. 195, Bohn’s translation).
[772] 1 Cor. xii. 11.
[773] i.e., the oracular breastplate.
[774] Lev. xvi. 23, 24.
[775] This line has given commentators considerable trouble. Diodorus says that the Telchines—fabled sons of Ocean—were the first inhabitants of Rhodes.
[776] σύνεσις. Sylburgius, with much probability, conjectures σύνδεσις, binding together.