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Excerpt from Scholia on Passages of the Old Testament The two mss. From which the Scholia edited and translated in the following pages have been taken, were obtained from the Syrian convent in the Desert of N itria. They are num bered and among the additional Manuscripts in the British Museum, where they were deposited, the former in 1843, and the latter in 1847. The one, which became the property of the Museum in 1843, was brought to England by Archdeacon Tattam, the other by M. Auguste Pacho. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.