This is the most popular of modern theories, and the only one, as I recollect, employed by commentators in illustrating the account of Moses; or rather in solving the difficulty by reconciling this theory with his account.
That the woman here represents the true church of Christ, most commentatorsare agreed.
Former commentators differed very widely as to the position of Pein, and as to the direction of Polo's route from Khotan.
Pasciai), and it is contrary to all my experience of the interpretation of Marco Polo to attempt to torture the name in the way which has been common with commentatorsprofessed and occasional.
Marco's own errors led commentators much astray about Tanduc or Tenduc, till Klaproth put the matter in its true light.
Polo's commentators are wrong in suspecting an anachronism in his statement, or trying to find Tenduc elsewhere.
Some Bible Commentators have even called the Shishak of Scripture 558 B.
Commentators considered that a passage in the Koran concerning lots and images embraced chess within the meaning of the latter term.
The last line has suggested to the commentators that the captain headed the press-gang himself.
Commentators are much divided upon this head; why she chose that name in preference to any other.
For Macdonald was essentially a scholar; he did not merely mug up notes by German commentators an hour before the lesson.
The old commentators on the Sodom-myth are most unsatisfactory, e.
FN#395] Some commentators understand "the tabernacles sacred to the reproductive powers of women;" and the Rabbis declare that the emblem was the figure of a setting hen.
The passage through defect of history has long been dark, and commentators have adapted different senses to it, all conjectural.
Some commentators tend to forget how the actual situation was in those days.
On one question all competent historians and commentators are agreed; viz.
Some commentators prefer another possible reading of this difficult verse: But the profit of a land is every way a king devoted to the field, i.
Almost all modern commentators take the reference to "the caper-berry" as marking the fact that condiments lose their power to provoke appetite with the aged, while many of the ancients took it as marking the failure of sexual desire.
Notwithstanding the low estimate which I am inclined to place upon the labour of the majority of the commentators on Shakespeare, still I have often felt a strong temptation to enroll myself among them.
The conclusion of this speech has given the commentators a fine chance to exercise their ingenuity.
If this pre-Raphaelite sketch of Hamlet's character should seem unsatisfactory, it can be filled out by a perusal of the play itself, if the reader will only cast aside the trammels which the commentators have placed in his way.
Other passages may be cited to show that Jesus taught the horrible doctrine of eternal torment, and all efforts on the part of modern commentators to explain away hell are in vain.
See the opinions of the commentators on altero die in the sixth volume of Cicero, edit.
Certain commentators place this oppidum to the west of Wendover (see Plate 15), others at St. Albans, the ancient Verulamium.
The writings of Lully are admitted to be very obscure; and those of his commentators and admirers, among whom the meteors of philosophy, Cornelius Agrippa and Jordano Bruno, were enrolled, are hardly less so.
It may be observed, that he had far less assistance from prior commentators in the Satires and Epistles than in the Odes.
Commandin, especially, was much in request in England, where he was frequently reprinted, and Montucla calls him the model of commentators for the pertinence and sufficiency of his notes.
The real difficulty to the understanding of this narrative has lain in the failure of commentators to put themselves back into the conditions of the Israelites.
Because commentators as a rule are not astronomers, and therefore either pass over the astronomical allusions of Scripture in silence, or else annotate them in a way which, from a scientific point of view, leaves much to be desired.
By some commentators Meni is understood to be the planet Venus, and Gad to be Jupiter, for these are associated in Arabian astrology with Fortune or Fate in the sense of good luck.
We have no experience of that position in these northern latitudes, and hence perhaps our commentators have, as a rule, not taken it into account.
The majority of translators and commentators have, however, agreed in believing that the brightest and most splendid constellation in the sky is intended--the one which we know as Orion.
Footnote 11: It appears to me to be an absurdity to suppose that Pindar means to express in this sentence his own rule of conduct, as the commentators have fancied.
Probably the commentators are right in supposing that Telesikrates was to take home with him a bride from the mother-country, a fact which makes the legends told specially appropriate.
One of his stories furnished the incidents for Shakespeare's "Tragedy of Othello," and this has given Cinthio a place in the commentatorson Shakespeare.
Because Servetus' description first appeared in a theological work, it has sometimes seemed to commentators that his expressions were scarcely more than accidental and that it was only by chance that he reached such a generalization.
It is useless to add another guess to those of the many commentators as to what this tri-colored cherry from the banks of the Rhine may be.
A score or more of commentators have tried to tell but when the comments are compared Pliny's disorder becomes confusion worse confounded.
The name given is Lutatian, the variety having been dedicated, as all commentators agree, to Lutatius Catulus, a contemporary of Lucullus, revered by Romans for having rebuilt the capitol after it had been destroyed by fire.
To the contrary, commentators now agree that the town received its name from the cherry which grows most abundantly in the forests in that part of Asia Minor.
Translators and commentators have until quite recently mistaken the import of the name Pekôd.
But, as Garrez points out, the Pehlevi commentators prove that it must be the countries on the Upper Tigris.
Varena is identified by the Pehlevi commentators with Patishkhvargâr, i.
This termination of the period, so little consonant to the beginning of it, follows the original, where it is esteemed by commentators a great beauty.
In the addition of notes I have availed myself of the learning of various commentators (Pope, Coleridge, Müller, etc.
There is an obscurity in the passage which none of the commentators explain.
Commentators are extremely in the dark, and even Aristarchus seems to have attempted an explanation in vain.
Her compassionate action is accompanied by a new motive, which by Wagner's commentatorshas been entitled the Motive of Compassion.
Several Wagnerian commentators regard the tomb motive as having conveyed to the Bayreuth master more than a suggestion of the Leitmotif system which he developed so fully in his music-drama.
The first part of the scene is hard to understand, and the commentators give little help.
The usual practice of commentators is to explain this portion of the narrative by assuming that the rainbow was visible before the covenant with Noah, but only after the covenant had a special significance.
Commentators explain that the Jews who left Egypt were unfit for the promised land.
Some commentators have even conjectured that he went out to meet them; but others object that this is contradictory to the narrative, which does not exhibit Lot as recognising the angels, and that it implies "too ideal a notion of its virtue.
The entire population must have numbered more than two millions, and some commentators estimate it at nearly three.
Commentators explain that Lot's approach to such a detestable sink of iniquity indicated the native corruption of his heart, or at least a sad lack of horror at the sins which made the place stink in the nostrils of God.
The only point of agreement among the commentators is that it was somewhere.
Variorum Shakespeare, says, "Samingo, that is San Domingo, as some of the commentators have observed.
None of the commentators have noticed this, but I think my suggestion carries with it some weight.
Arnold and other commentators in thinking that the money taken out by Eurymedon was far more probably the larger sum of the two, than the smaller.
None of the commentators can explain the text without admitting some alteration or omission of words: nor do any of the explanations given appear to me convincing.
Arnold and other commentators notice in illustration of this practice, we may add the instructive exposition of the analogous practice in the procedure of Roman law, as given by Von Savigny, in his System des heutigen Römischen Rechts, sects.
These words of Thucydidês are very obscure, and have been explained by different commentators in different ways.
But it departs less from ordinary construction than either of the two senses which the commentators propose.
All the examples produced in the notes of the commentators testify this meaning, which also occurs in the text itself two lines before.
All the commentators reject this meaning, because they say, it is absurd to talk of a man’s announcing beforehand that he intends to desert to the enemy, and giving that as an excuse for quitting the camp.
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