. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. oys withboth the Phrygian pipes andthe others. And if it is neces-sary to spend anything, payit. Thou shalt receive it fromus. And send us also Zenobiusthe effeminate, with tabret,and cymbals, and rattles. Forthe women have need of himat the sacrifice. And let himhave also raiment as fair asmay be. And fetch also thekid from Aristion and send it The Hibeh Papyri, No. 54.—For the photograph here reproduced in slightlyredaced facsimile (Figare 16), by kind permission of the Egypt


. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. oys withboth the Phrygian pipes andthe others. And if it is neces-sary to spend anything, payit. Thou shalt receive it fromus. And send us also Zenobiusthe effeminate, with tabret,and cymbals, and rattles. Forthe women have need of himat the sacrifice. And let himhave also raiment as fair asmay be. And fetch also thekid from Aristion and send it The Hibeh Papyri, No. 54.—For the photograph here reproduced in slightlyredaced facsimile (Figare 16), by kind permission of the Egypt ExplorationFund, I am indebted to the courtesy of Dr. (Jrenfell. Ptolemaeus seems to have held some post in the police force of the nomelof Oxyrhynchus. Wilokens conjecture. The word is no doubt used in its secondary (obscene) sense, as by St. Paulin 1 Cor, vi. 9. It is an allusion to the foul practices by which the musicianseked out their earnings. Cf. the remarks in Chapter IV. on the lists ofTioes (p. 321, n. 1). St. Paul is thinking of cymbals such as these, employed for religionsmusic, in 1 Cor. ziii.


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