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, is addressed to the ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ “those who are beautiful or perfect of _ka_.” Here the papyri add _lords of rule_, and the invocation, whatever the reading may be, is always addressed to those who have in their power the laws which regulate the universe.

3. _Whose secular period is Eternity._ ⁂⁂⁂ _ḥentȧ_ is the period of 120 years (see _Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._, XIV, 264) which was their αἰών, _aevum_, corresponding in idea, not in actual time, to our century. The secular period of the gods is eternity.

4. _The Crocodile._ Are we to understand this of the crocodile-headed monster pictured in the representations of the Psychostasia? These pictures are not known to us from as early a date as the chapter itself, but they may have existed. Perhaps, however, this passage may have suggested them.

5. _Bread._ The Egyptian word ⁂ _ta_, like its homonym ⁂, implies something _pierced_ or _perforated_. The sacrificial cake חַלָּה in Leviticus viii, 26 has the same meaning and, like חַלִיל _a pipe_, is connected with חָלָל, _perforavit_, _confodit_, _aperuit_, _profanavit_. See _Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._, 1893, p. 386.

⁂ _ta_, a door or gate, and some other homonyms evidently come under the same conception; cf. _porta_ and πείρω.

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