אתכרך

, which means surround, wind round. The Vulgate has the following version of the patriarch's prophetic exclamation:

"Et rursum circumdabor pelle mea,

Et in carne mea videbo Deum meum."

Jerome evidently knew not what to do with the word

זאת

, and therefore omitted it. He might have turned it to good account by translating it erit hoc.

The above note has been penned upwards of five years ago, and I transcribe it now, without a single alteration, for the benefit of Mr. C. Mansfield Ingleby and his friends.

Moses Margoliouth.

Wybunbury, Nantwich.