On the Ruin of Britain

Notes

1. Iniustitia. I have changed the punctuation of other editions by removing the note of interrogation usually placed after ignis, retaining only the note at the end of the sentence. It seems to me rendered necessary by the text of the LXX, and reads well. I have ventured even to omit the m of the accusative iniustitiam, though the MS. authority seems altogether to favour its retention; but it is well known that in nothing do MSS. show so much uncertainty as in the omission or insertion of this letter. Taking the LXX as one’s guide, and observing that such a phrase as “to treasure unrighteousness” is not in keeping with Old Testament ideas, every hesitation as to the substitution of the nominative case is almost entirely removed. The LXX reading is μὴ πῦρ, καὶ οἶκος ἀνόμου θησαυρίζων θησαυροὺς ἀνόμους, καὶ μετὰ ὕβρεως ἀδικία;