A.—The R. V. is not without good reason for the change from “Manasseh” to “Moses.” Even D. Kimchi, a famous Rabbi, allowed that the copyists were ashamed that a grandson of the legislator should have sunk into becoming the priest of an idol, and sought to conceal the fact by the substitution of “Manasseh.” De Rossi as well as Kennicott have the witness of MSS. for the true reading. Even in the Masoretic text there is the remarkable and suspicious circumstance that the “n” is written above the proper line. Now this is the only letter in the unpointed Hebrew, by which the one name differs from the other.
It may be added that the two incidents at the end of Judges (chaps. 17; 18, and 19-21) are not in chronological sequence of what precedes (as a careless reader might assume from their place), but occurred in the early days of its history. Both took place in the second generation after Aaron and Moses, as attested by Gershom's son in the one, and by Phinehas in the other. The aim of both accounts was to show how deeply Israel was even then corrupted Godward and manward.
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