[TIÊU ĐỀ GỐC]: CHAPTER II.
Chapter for Coming forth by day and Living after death.
Oh thou Only One,(1) who shinest from the Moon, let me
come forth amid that train(2) of thine, at large,(3) and let me be
revealed(4) as one of those in glory.(5)
And when the Tuat is opened to the gods, let N come forth
to do his pleasure upon earth amid the Living.
Notes.
This chapter occurs in only two of the ancient MSS. collated by
Naville: Ae and Pf. It is also found in the papyrus of Ani.
1.
‘unicus,’ the Sole and Only One, is one of the many
appellatives of the Sun. He is here represented as shining in or
from the Moon. Cf. note on Chapter 132.
122.
, ‘multitude, throng, train,’ here put for the
‘heavenly host,’ the ἄκριτος ἄστρων ὄχλος (Euripid., Fr. 596), or the
Hebrew עבא חשׁמים.
Osiris is , ‘the leader of the host,’ Sharpe, I, 105.
3.
, אל־מהוץ, foras, ‘forth, out
of doors, at large,’ in opposition to enclosure in the tomb.
4.
, explicare, ‘disclose, unfold, reveal, make clear.’
5.
Or ‘among the Glorious ones,’ .
