recension

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There is also an early Arabic recension, but its relation to the Hebrew and to the Arabic 2 Maccabees is still obscure.

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Some restraint thus was exercised, and this provision was retained in the recension of the code in 1415.

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A book, De miraculis, composed of extracts from Bede, was appended along with these three epistles to the later recensions of the Historia.

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The whole verse is omitted in the unrevised Septuagint, but in a later recension the number thirty is inserted.”

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Although, no doubt, of Hesiodic origin, in its present form it is composed of different recensions and numerous later additions and interpolations.

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