See also:

• PRAYER (from Lat. precari, entreat; Ital. pregaria, Fr. priere)
• PRAYER, BOOK OF COMMON

PRAYER OF See also:

• MANASSES, CONSTANTINE
• PRAYER OF MANASSES

MANASSES  , a}1 apocryphal See also:

• BOOK

book of the Old Testament . This See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing, which since the See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council of See also:

• TRENT
• TRENT (Lat. Tridentum; Ital. Trento; Ger. relent)
• TRENT, COUNCIL OF

Trent has been relegated by the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church of See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome to the position of an appendix to the See also:

• VULGATE (from Lat. vulgus, the common people)

Vulgate, was placed by See also:

• LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)

Luther and the translators of the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible among the apocryphal books . In some See also:

• MSS

MSS. of the See also:

• SEPTUAGINT, THE (Gr. of 0', Lat. LXX.)

Septuagint it is the eighth among the See also:

• CANTICLES

canticles appended to the Psalter, though in many See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek psalters, which include the canticles, it is not found at all . In Swete's Old Testament in Greek, iii . 8o2 sqq., A is printed with the variants of T (Psalterium turicense).2 From the statements in 2 Chron. xxxiii . 12, 13, 18, 19, it follows that the Old Testament chronicler found a See also:

• PRAYER (from Lat. precari, entreat; Ital. pregaria, Fr. priere)
• PRAYER, BOOK OF COMMON

prayer attributed to See also:

• MANASSEH (7th cent. B.C.)
• MANASSEH (apparently Hebrew for " he who causes to for-get," but see H. W. Hogg, Encyc. Bib., s.v.); in the Bible, a tribe of Israel, the elder but less important of the "sons" of Joseph. Its seat lay to the north of Ephraim, but its boundaries can scarce

Manasseh in his See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew See also:

• SOURCES

sources, The See also:

• HISTORY

History of the See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

Kings of See also:

• ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

Israel and The History of the Seers . Naturally the question arose, had the existing Prayer of See also:

• MANASSES, CONSTANTINE
• MANASSES, PRAYER OF

Manasses any See also:

• DIRECT

direct connexion with the prayer referred to by the chronicler ? See also:

• EWALD, GEORG HEINRICH AUGUST VON (1803-1875)
• EWALD, JOHANNES (1743-1781)

Ewald was of See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion that the Greek was an actual See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the lost Hebrew; but See also:

• BALL (in Mid. Eng. bal; the word is probably cognate with " bale," Teutonic in origin, cf. also Lat. falls, and Gr. 7raXXa)
• BALL, JOHN (1585-1640)
• BALL, JOHN (1818-1889)
• BALL, JOHN (d. 1381)
• BALL, SIR ALEXANDER JOHN, BART
• BALL, THOMAS (1819- )

Ball more wisely takes it as a See also:

• FREE

free rendering of a lost Haggadic narrative founded on the older document from which the chronicler See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew his See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information . This view he supports by showing that there was once a considerable literature in circulation regarding Manasseh's later history . On the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand most scholars take the Prayer to have been written in Greek, e.g . Fritzsche, See also:

• SCHURER, EMIL (1844–1910)

Schurer and Ryssel (Kautzsch, Apok. u . -Pseud. i .

165–168) . " See also:

• POLITICAL

Political " See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse or See also:

• METRE ((terpuc?, sc. rFxvf, from Gr. Or poi', measure)

metre is the name given to a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of verse found as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as the 6th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century in See also:

• PROVERBS, BOOK OF (Heb. Mishle Slzelomoh, " Proverbs of Solomon," abridged by the later Jews to Mishle; Septuagint, irapotpiai or II. EaX.; Lat. Vulg. Parabolae sal. and Liber proverbiorum)

proverbs, and characteristic of See also:

• BYZANTINE

Byzantine and See also:

• MODERN

modern Greek See also:

• POETRY

poetry . It takes no See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the quantity of syllables; the scansion depends See also:

• TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin See also:

• ACCENT

accent, and there is always an accent on the last syllable but one . It is specially used of an See also:

• IAMBIC

iambic verse with fifteen syllables, i.e. seven feet and an unaccented syllable over . See also:

• BYRON, GEORGE GORDON BYRON, 6TH BARON (1788-1824)
• BYRON, HENRY JAMES (1834-1884)
• BYRON, HON
• BYRON, JOHN BYRON

Byron compares (" A See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain bold of See also:

• HALIFAX
• HALIFAX, CHARLES MONTAGUE, EARL OF (1661–1715)
• HALIFAX, GEORGE MONTAGU DUNK, 2ND EARL OF (1716-1771)
• HALIFAX, GEORGE SAVILE, 1ST MARQUESS OF (1633-1695)

Halifax who lived in See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country quarters." Such facile metres are called " political," in the sense of "See also:

• COMMONPLACE

commonplace," "of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city." Cf . See also:

• GIBBON
• GIBBON, EDWARD (1737–1794)

Gibbon's Decline and Fall (ed . See also:

• BURY
• BURY, JOHN BAGNELL (1861- )

Bury, 1898), vi . 108; Du Cange, See also:

• GLOSS, GLOSSARY

Gloss. med. et infin. See also:

• LAT

lat . (vi . 395), who has an interesting See also:

• QUOTATION

quotation from See also:

• LEO
• LEO (THE LION)
• LEO, BROTHER (d. c. 1270)
• LEO, HEINRICH (1799-1878)
• LEO, JOHANNES (c. 1494-1552)
• LEO, LEONARDO (1694–1744)

Leo Allatius . Leo explains " political " as implying that the verses are " scorta et meretrices, quod See also:

• OMNIBUS (Lat. " for all ")

omnibus sunt obsequiosae et peculiares, et servitutem publicam serviunt." 2 Nestle (Septuaginta Studien III.) contends that the See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text of A and T is derived from the A See also:

• POST

post . Const. ii .

22, or from its See also:

• ORIGINAL

original, and not from a MS. of the Septuagint . This See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• PENITENTIAL (Lat. poenitentiale, libellus poenitentialis, &c.)

penitential prayer seems to have been modelled after the penitential See also:

• PSALMS, BOOK
• PSALMS, BOOK OF, or PSALTER

psalms . It exhibits considerable unity of thought, and the See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style is, in the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main, dignified and See also:

• SIMPLE

simple . As regards the date, Fritzsche, Ball and Ryssel agree in assigning this See also:

• PSALM (from the Gr. word * hXAew, to play the harp)

psalm to the Maccabean See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period . Its See also:

• ESCHATOLOGY
• ESCHATOLOGY (Gr. &rXaros, last, and A6yos, science; the " doctrine of last things ")

eschatology and See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine of " divine forgiveness " may point to an earlier date . The best See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short account of the book is given by Ball (See also:

• SPEAKER

Speaker's Apocrypha, ii . 361–371); see also See also:

• PORTER
• PORTER, BENJAMIN CURTIS (1843– )
• PORTER, DAVID (1780-1843)
• PORTER, DAVID DIXON (1813-1891)
• PORTER, ENDYMION (1587–1649)
• PORTER, HENRY (ft. 1596-1599)
• PORTER, HORACE (1837– )
• PORTER, JANE (1776–1850)
• PORTER, MARY (d. 1765)
• PORTER, NOAH (1811–1892)

Porter in See also:

• HASTINGS
• HASTINGS, FRANCIS
• HASTINGS, FRANK ABNEY (1794-1828)
• HASTINGS, WARREN (1732-1818)

Hastings's Dict . Bible, iii . 232–233 . (R . H .