Ante-Nicene Christian library : translations of the writings of the Fathers down to AD325 . ,068). For further information on the subject of the Testaments^reference may be made, in addition to works already mentioned,to the following:—Nitzsch, Commentatio Critica de TestamentisXII Patriarchariimy lihro V. T. Pseudepigrapho (Wittenberg1810); Pitschl, Die Entstehung der Altkatlwlischen Kirche(Bonn 1850; ed. 2, 1857), p. 171 sqq.; Yorstman, Disqui-sitio de Testamentoriim XII Patriarcharum. origine et pretlo(Kotterdam 1857) ; Kayser in Reuss and Cunitzs Beitrdge zuden theol. Wissenschaften f
Ante-Nicene Christian library : translations of the writings of the Fathers down to AD325 . ,068). For further information on the subject of the Testaments^reference may be made, in addition to works already mentioned,to the following:—Nitzsch, Commentatio Critica de TestamentisXII Patriarchariimy lihro V. T. Pseudepigrapho (Wittenberg1810); Pitschl, Die Entstehung der Altkatlwlischen Kirche(Bonn 1850; ed. 2, 1857), p. 171 sqq.; Yorstman, Disqui-sitio de Testamentoriim XII Patriarcharum. origine et pretlo(Kotterdam 1857) ; Kayser in Reuss and Cunitzs Beitrdge zuden theol. Wissenschaften for 1851, pp. 107—140 ; Liicke, Ein-leitung in die Offenharung des Joh. vol. i. p. 334 sqq., ed. 2. R. S. Trinity College, Ca:\ 21, 1871. 1 This Englisli translation having been made from the Latin, the printededitions of which swarm with inaccuracies (Grossetestes Latin versionitself being a most exact translation), I have been able to make much lessuse of it than I could have desired. It has, however, been comparedthroughout. THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE THE TESTAMENT OF EEUBEN CONCEENINaTHOUGHTS. HE copy of the Testament of Reuben, whatthin^js he charorecl his sons before he died inthe hundred and twenty-fifth year of his hfe.^ When he was sick two years after the death ofJoseph, his sons and his sons sons were gathered together tovisit him. And he said to them, My children, I am dying, andgo the way of my fathers. And when he saw there Judah andGad and Asher, his brethren, he said to them, Raise me up, mybrethren, that I may tell to my brethren and to my childrenwhat things I have hidden in my heart, for from henceforthmy strength faileth me. And he arose and kissed them, andsaid, weeping: Hear, my brethren, give ear to Reuben yourfather, what things I command you. And, behold, I call towitness against you this day the God of heaven, that ye walknot in the ignorance of youth and fornication wherein I rangreedily, and I defiled the bed of Jaco
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