[426] xxxiv.
[427] Cf. xxxiv. 14 with Deut. xv. 12 and Exod. xxi. 2.
[428] Cf. Prof. Adeney's Ezra, Nehemiah, etc., in this series.
[429] So also Kautzsch, Reuss, Sugfried, and Stade. The same phrase is thus translated in iii. 14.
[430] "I was Baal" = "ba'alti."
[431] ἠμέλησα.
[432] נצלתי; נצל occurs in xiv. 19, and is translated by A.V. and R.V. "loathed."
[433] We usually underrate the proportion of Jews who embraced Christianity. Hellenistic Judaism disappeared as Christianity became widely diffused, and was probably for the most part absorbed into the new faith.
[434] iii. 16, slightly paraphrased.
[435] xvii. 1.