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Show A MVVUMltll'l lOUNII. Tiik Chicago Tribune ot lastHunday contains pirtlculnro of tho reemt Hud lug of a valuable and Interesting document docu-ment In Kgypt. It was Hibrrltted by I'roletsor llechlvr to tbo Inlernaltonnl Oriental Congress In session at l'arls, l'ranie, on tho 17lh Inst. Mr. Ilecblcr Is chaplain to the Hrltlsli embasay nt Vienna. He Is a well known orlentsl loholar. Tbo document Is a papyrut manuscript, nnd is supposed to bo the oldest copy extant of portions of tho Old Tesutnfent books of Zacharlati ftud Malachl. The ngea aro tin Inches long nnd toven wide, each containing twenty-eight lines Uid written onlwth tldiaof the sheet. It U tupposed to have lieen copied from aomo original Hc luaglnt Illble, translated Into Greek about 260 II. ('. for the UseofJewtln Kgypt who bad forgot-teu forgot-teu llebriw and learnid to Beak Greek. The ipyrue, Ibougli apparently appar-ently copltd from another worb, bears maiks of revision ty h writer other than the copyist. The ink of thu re-alrer re-alrer shows n different color from the ether. The mamiicilpt shows that It hatteveral new rtadlngt whlcli surpass sur-pass sumo of tho otlur Keptuaglnt texts In clearucft of txprewlon and tlm-I tlm-I Hetty of grammar. Thu subject matter is divided Into verses, which was not the oaao with tho oilglnal. rollowlug "ruslx ersit from Zacharlah xll, i! S, at IraiislatuI from tho newly lounj nianii'crlpti ' J Nutlons rnun I about, and tn Judeu there shall he a alogo aaloat Jerusulcur. "t And it shall come lo aaa In that day that 1 will make Jerusalem a stone tluddiii doii lu all the uatlout, uiery onolriiluplMon II, imnllln,-, 1 uioikcl, and tin re shall bo gathered loquitur akalmt Hall the iratlona ol Ho earth "I In that day m h tilu 1 ul A mighty, I will suit'" . h ir i with, amaement and his ler with maduess but ujmn tha lioli.r . f idea I wilt on mine eyesand all Hie hnr-ntot tho nations I will tmlto with bllmlnn'-.. " And Hie captains of tlmutanda ol Jitdca shall say In ihlr hearts- We shall II nd for otirselvea the inhabitant- of Jtrnaslem In the I "rd Almlghiy their (Joil. "1. Iulhatdayl will make the cap-Inlim cap-Inlim of ihouaands or Tudeu a firebrand among wooil nnd as a torch of fire In stubble ami they devour on the right hand and on tho left all the nations roundabout Jerusaltm thalldweli again by herself, "7. And tho Lord shall aave the lents of lodoa as at the Untuning, that the boast of the bouso of David may not magnify itself and the pride of tho Inhabitants In-habitants of Jerusalem apalnst Judca. "t. And it ahall coma to pass In that day that the tord shall defoud tha Inhabitants In-habitants of Jerusalem, and tho woak ones among llicrn lu that day shall bo as DavlJ." Jiy comparison It will bo found that ho above text In verses Sand 3 differ materially front the following 'as re-I re-I roduced from tho revised virslon. "Heboid I will mske Jerusalem a cup of reeling unto all the peoples round about, and Uin Judth also shall It be In the alogo against Jorusatomi and it shall como lo pats In that day that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the lieoplei all that harden themselves with it shall bo aoro wnunde.li and all Hio nations of the t irlh shall bogalhorcd together against It." l'rof. lleih'or sal 1 It wot to Lo liopwd that thla moat vuluablu papyrua of the Illble, probably the oldest now known to exist, would toon bu published in fac-slmllo for thu strict cxamlna'.ion of biblical scholars. Henlsnsald that It was thn duty of the Hrlt'slt government govern-ment to institute an organlzid and clenllflo search for papjrl In Kgpt. There wire, be thought, great trraturis for the modern scholar bidden nwny In this old cradle of clvlllritlou and religion. |