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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَبَوِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ عِيسَوِيَّةٍ

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إِلَّا مَآ أَمَرْتَنِى بِهِۦٓ فَأَثْبَتَ نَفْسَهُ مَأْمُورًا وَلَيْسَتْ سِوَىٰ عُبُودِيَّتِهِ إِذْ لَا يُؤْمَرُ إِلَّا مَنْ يُتَصَوَّرُ مِنْهُ الامْتِثَالُ وَإِن لَمْ يَفْعَلْ وَلَمَّا كَانَ الأَمْرُ يَنْزِلُ بِحُكْمِ المَرَاتِبِ لِذَٰلِكَ يَنْصَبِغُ كُلُّ مَنْ ظَهَرَ فِي مَرْتَبَةٍ مَا بِمَا تُعْطِيهِ حَقِيقَةُ تِلْكَ المَرْتَبَةِ فَمَرْتَبَةُ المَأْمُورِ لَهَا حُكْمٌ يَظْهَرُ فِي كُلِّ مَأْمُورٍ وَمَرْتَبَةُ الآمِرِ لَهَا حُكْمٌ يَبْدُو فِي كُلِّ آمِرٍ فَيَقُولُ الحَقُّ أَقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ فَهُوَ الآمِرُ وَالمُكَلَّفُ وَالمَأْمُورُ وَيَقُولُ العَبْدُ رَبِّ ٱغْفِرْ لِى فَهُوَ الآمِرُ وَالحَقُّ المَأْمُورُ فَمَا يَطْلُبُ الحَقُّ مِنَ العَبْدِ بِأَمْرِهِ هُوَ بِعَيْنِهِ يَطْلُبُهُ العَبْدُ مِنَ الحَقِّ بِأَمْرِهِ

"[I said nothing to them] except what You commanded me [to say]" [Q 5:117]. He thereby affirmed himself as one commanded, and that is nothing other than his servanthood, since none is commanded except one from whom compliance can be conceived, even if he does not [in fact] comply. And since the command descends according to the ruling property of the ranks, everyone who becomes manifest in a given rank is dyed with what the reality of that rank gives. The rank of the one commanded has a ruling property that becomes manifest in everyone commanded, and the rank of the commander has a ruling property that appears in every commander. Thus the Real says, "Perform the prayer": He is the commander, and the one charged [with obligation] is the one commanded. And the servant says, "My Lord, forgive me" [Q 7:151]: he is the commander, and the Real is the one commanded. So what the Real seeks from the servant by His command is the very same thing the servant seeks from the Real by his command.

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Only al-Qāshānī comments here.

al-Qāshānī

﴿سوى عبوديته ، إذ لا يؤمر إلا من يتصور منه الامتثال وإن لم يفعل . ولما كان الأمر ينزل بحكم المراتب لذلك ينصبغ كل من ظهر في مرتبة ما بما تعطيه حقيقة تلك المرتبة فمرتبة المأمور لها حكم يظهر في كل مأمور ، ومرتبة الآمر لها حكم يبدو في كل أمر فيقول الحق " أَقِيمُوا الصَّلاةَ " فهو الآمر والمكلف المأمور ، ويقول العبد " رَبِّ اغْفِرْ لِي " فهو الآمر والحق المأمور ، فما يطلب الحق من العبد بأمره ، هو بعينه يطلب العبد من الحق بأمره﴾

يعنى بالإجابة . قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

- meaning: by [seeking] the response. The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said:

Ibn Turka

﴿" إِلَّا ما أَمَرْتَنِي به " فأثبت نفسه مأمورا ، وليست﴾

نفسه في أفعاله وأقواله

in his acts and sayings

Jāmī

﴿إِلَّا ما أَمَرْتَنِي بِهِ﴾

لبيان ما يتعلق بمقام عبوديته ( فأثبت ) عيسى عليه السلام

to clarify what pertains to his station of servanthood (ʿubūdiyya). (Thus he established) — Jesus (peace be upon him)

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نَفْسَهُ مَأْمُورًا

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿نفسه مأمورا﴾

ثانيا بعدما نفاه أول ( وليست ) علة إثبات مأموريته أو ليست نفسه المأمورة من هذه الحيثية

a second time, after having negated it the first time — (and it is not) the cause of the establishment of his being commanded, or his self that is commanded from this standpoint is not

Ibn Turka

﴿سوى عبوديّته﴾

فعلم أن ذلك القول منه لهم عين عبوديّته لله على أيّ معنى حمل ، وذلك هو مقتضى أصل استعداده

And it is thus known that this speech of his to them is itself his servitude to God, on whatever meaning it is taken, and that is what the root of his preparedness (istiʿdād) requires

Jāmī

﴿سوى عبوديته إذ لا يؤمر … إلا من يتصور منه الامتثال وإن لم يفعل ولما كان الأمر﴾

أي الحال والشأن الذي تتصف به أهل المراتب ( ينزل ) عليهم ويتصفون به

that is, the state and condition with which the people of the ranks are characterized (descends) upon them, and they become characterized by it

Ibn Turka

﴿إذ لا يؤمر إلا من يتصوّر منه الامتثال وإن لم يفعل ولمّا كان الأمر تنزل بحكم المراتب﴾

Quotes words that differ from our text (wavy underline).

فإن الأمر هاهنا بمعنى طلب الفعل ، فهو فعل ، وهو آخر مراتب التنزّلات ، وله الإحاطة وبه تحصل المرتبة و

For the command here means the seeking of the act, so it is itself an act, and it is the last of the levels of descents; to it belongs the encompassing (al-iḥāṭa), and through it the level (al-martaba) is attained, and

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وَإِن لَمْ يَفْعَلْ

Only Bālī Zāde comments here.

Bālī Zāde

﴿وإن لم يفعل﴾

فكان نفسه عين عبوديته وإلا لما قال إلا ما أمرتني

— thus his self is identical with his servanthood; otherwise he would not have said 'except what You commanded me'

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وَلَمَّا كَانَ الأَمْرُ

Only Bālī Zāde comments here.

Bālī Zāde

﴿ولما كان الأمر﴾

أي أمر الحق عباده بالتكليف ( ينزل ) من الحضرة الجامعة لجميع الأسماء وهو الاسم اللّه

i.e. the Real's command to His servants by [religious] obligation ('descends') from the all-comprehensive Presence of all the [divine] names, which is the name 'God'

Jāmī

﴿بحكم المراتب﴾

أي بسبب أن المراتب يحكم به عليهم ويقتضيه

that is, because the ranks are judged concerning them and require it [of them]

Bālī Zāde

﴿بحكم المراتب﴾

أي بحكم المظاهر الكونية فيتصف بصفاتها من الحدوث والإمكان وغير ذلك من الصفات الامكانية . ( لذلك ) أي لأجل نزول الأمر التكليفي بحكم المراتب

i.e. by the rule of the cosmic loci of manifestation, so that it is qualified by their attributes of temporal origination (ḥudūth), possibility, and other contingent attributes. ('therefore') i.e. because of the descent of the obligatory command by the rule of the levels

Ibn Turka

﴿لذلك ينصبغ كل من ظهر في مرتبة ما بما تعطيه حقيقة تلك المرتبة﴾

من الآثار والأفعال -

of traces and acts -

Jāmī

﴿لذلك ينصبغ كل من ظهر في مرتبة﴾

ما ، حقا كان أو خلق

whatsoever — whether Real or created

Bālī Zāde

﴿ينصبغ كل من ظهر في مرتبة ما﴾

من المراتب ( بما ) أي بالذي

of the levels ('is colored') by what, i.e. by that which

Jāmī

﴿بما تعطيه حقيقة تلك المرتبة﴾

من ولهذا كان كل دعاء مجابا ولا بد، وإن تأخر كما يتأخر بعض المكلفين ممن أقيم مخاطبا بإقامة الصلاة فلا يصلي في وقت فيؤخر الامتثال ويصلي في وقت آخر إن كان متمكنا من ذلك. فلا بد من الاجابة و لو بالقصد. ) الأحوال والأحكام

of — and for this reason every supplication is necessarily answered, even if delayed, as is delayed [the response] of some of those obligated who are appointed as addressees through the establishment of prayer, yet do not pray at [one] time, thus deferring compliance and praying at another time, if able to do so. There must be a response, even if only in intention — the states and judgments

Bālī Zāde

﴿تعطيه حقيقة تلك المرتبة﴾

فإن القرآن الكريم بالنسبة إلى الحق القديم قديم وباعتبار نزوله وظهوره في مراتبنا حادث وجواب لما محذوف تقديره لما كان الأمر ينزل نزل بحكم المراتب أو قوله ينصبغ لأن قوله لذلك مؤخر عنه معنى

For the Noble Qurʾān, in relation to the eternal Real, is eternal (qadīm), but in consideration of its descent and manifestation in our levels, it is temporally originated (ḥādith). And the apodosis of 'lammā' [when] is elided, its implication being: 'when the command descended, it descended according to the rule of the levels' — or [the apodosis is] his statement 'is colored,' since his statement 'therefore' is [logically] posterior to it in meaning

Ibn Turka

﴿فمرتبة المأمور لها حكم يظهر في كل مأمور﴾

حقّا كان أو عبدا

whether Real (Ḥaqq) or servant (ʿabd)

Jāmī

﴿فمرتبة المأمور﴾

أي المأمور به

that is, of that which is commanded

Bālī Zāde

﴿فمرتبة المأمور﴾

وهي مرتبة كلية مشتملة على مراتب مخصوصة جزئية . قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

which is a universal level encompassing particular, specific levels. The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said:

Jāmī

﴿لها حكم يظهر في كل مأمور﴾

فذلك الحكم هو الانقياد ، وذلك إذا كان المأمور مأمورا بالأمر الإيجادي فقط أو الإيجادي والإيجابي معا . وأما إذا كان مأمورا بالأمر الإيجابي فقط فليس مأمورا بالحقيقة هذا إذا كان المأمور هو العبد ، وأما مأمورية الحق سبحانه فإنما تتحقق إذا كان دعاء العبد بلسان الاستعداد فقط ، أو به مع القول ، وأما المأمور بلسان القول فقط فليس مأمورا بالحقيقة

and that ruling is submission (inqiyād) — this being when the one commanded is commanded only by the existentiating command (al-amr al-ījādī), or by both the existentiating and the obligating command (al-amr al-ījābī) together. But if he is commanded only by the obligating command, then he is not truly commanded — this being when the one commanded is the servant. As for the Real (glory be to Him) being commanded, this is only realized when the servant's supplication is by the tongue of preparedness (istiʿdād) alone, or by it together with the verbal utterance; but as for being commanded by the tongue of verbal utterance alone, this is not truly being commanded

Bālī Zāde

﴿لها حكم﴾

وهو التسليم والطاعة والقبول بأمر أمره ( يبدو ) أي يظهر ذلك الحكم

which is submission, obedience, and acceptance of the command of the one who commands ('appears') i.e. that ruling becomes manifest

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فِي كُلِّ مَأْمُورٍ

Only Bālī Zāde comments here.

Bālī Zāde

﴿في كل مأمور﴾

أي في كل مرتبة من جزئيات تلك المرتبة الكلية

i.e. in every level among the particulars of that universal level

Ibn Turka

﴿ومرتبة الآمر لها حكم يبدو في كل آمر … فيقول الحقّ : " أَقِيمُوا الصَّلاةَ " … فهو الآمر والمكلَّف المأمور ويقول العبد : « رب اغفر لي » فهو الآمر والحقّ المأمور . فما يطلب الحقّ بأمره هو بعينه يطلب العبد من الحقّ بأمره﴾

وإن اختصّ طلب العبد بالدعاء في عرف الأدب ، وطلب الحقّ بالأمر . قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

even though the servant's seeking is specifically termed supplication (duʿāʾ) in the convention of proper usage (adab), and the Real's seeking is termed command (amr). The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said

Jāmī

﴿ومرتبة الآمر … لها حكم يبدو في كل آمر﴾

وهو الحكم على المأمور وإنفاذه فيه . ( فيقول الحق سبحانه ) قولا إيجاديا أو إيجابيا مع الإيجاد

, and it is the governing rule over the one commanded and its being carried out upon him. (So the Real, glory be to Him, says) a word that is engendering, or that is affirming together with engendering

Bālī Zāde

﴿ومرتبة الأمر﴾

وهي مرتبة جامعة لجميع مراتب مخصوصة وهي مرتبة الاسم اللّه

which is a level comprehensive of all specific levels, and it is the level of the name 'God'

Words 51–52 · 1 of 4

لَهَا حُكْمٌ

Only Bālī Zāde comments here.

Bālī Zāde

﴿لها حكم﴾

يحكم به على المأمور وهو التكليف الشرعي للمأمور

by which it rules over the one commanded, which is the legal obligation (taklīf) imposed upon the one commanded

Words 53–56 · 1 of 4

يَبْدُو فِي كُلِّ آمِرٍ

Only Bālī Zāde comments here.

Bālī Zāde

﴿يبدو في كل آمر﴾

من خصوصيات تلك المرتبة الكلية الآمرية

among the particulars of that universal, commanding level

Bālī Zāde

﴿فيقول الحق أقيموا الصلاة فهو الأمر والمكلف﴾

بكسر اللام ( المأمور ) العبد فكان الحق في مرتبة الآمر يظهر منه الحكم والعبد في مرتبة المأمور يظهر منه الطاعة لأمره

(with kasra on the lām) (is the one commanded) — the servant. Thus the Real, in the level of commander, has the ruling manifest from Him, while the servant, in the level of the one commanded, has obedience to His command manifest from him

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أَقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ فَهُوَ الآمِرُ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿أَقِيمُوا الصَّلاةَ فهو الآمر﴾

[ الأنعام : 72 ] . والمكلف حقيقة ( و ) العبد ( المكلف ) هو ( المأمور ويقول العبد ) بلسان الاستعداد سواء قارنه قول اللسان أم لا ؟

[al-Anʿām: 72]. And the one obligated is, in reality, (and) the obligated servant is (the one commanded), and (the servant says) with the tongue of preparedness (istiʿdād), whether or not the tongue's utterance accompanies it

Bālī Zāde

﴿ويقول العبد رب اغفر لي فهو الآمر﴾

بحسب مفهوم الصيغة واللغة لا بحسب الاصطلاح وكذا قوله

according to the meaning of the form and the language, not according to [technical] convention — and likewise his statement

Jāmī

﴿رب اغفر لي فهو الآمر والحق المأمور فما يطلب﴾

أي الذي يطلبه

, i.e., what is sought by him

Words 72–73 · 1 of 4

وَالحَقُّ المَأْمُورُ

Only Bālī Zāde comments here.

Bālī Zāde

﴿والحق المأمور﴾

ولا يسمى بحسب الشرع بأنه مأمور بأمر شيء لكن أهل اللّه قد يطلقون لكشف المعاني المستورة على أعين أهل الحجاب لحكمة تقتضي كشفها فكان كل واحد من الحق والعبد آمرا ومأمورا . لكن المأمور في حق الحق بمعنى المطلوب والآمر في حق العبد في رب اغفر لي بمعنى الطالب وإليه أشار بقوله

— though He is not called, according to the Sacred Law, 'commanded by the command of something.' But the people of God (ahl Allāh) may apply [such terms] to uncover meanings concealed from the eyes of the people of the veil, for a wisdom that requires their uncovering. Thus each of the Real and the servant is both commander and commanded — but 'commanded' with respect to the Real means 'the one sought from,' and 'commander' with respect to the servant, in 'My Lord, forgive me,' means 'the one seeking.' And to this he alluded by his saying:

Bālī Zāde

﴿فما يطلب الحق من العبد بأمره هو بعينه يطلب العبد من الحق بأمره﴾

وليس ما طلبه كل واحد من الآخر بأمره إلا الإجابة . وكانت الإجابة مطلوبة فمطلوب العبد من الحق بقول رب اغفر لي وجود الغفران ومطلوب الحق من العبد بقوله :"وَأَقِيمُوا الصَّلاةَ *[ البقرة : 43 ] . إقامة الصلاة إذ لا يتصور إقامة الصلاة إلا من فعل العبد فحصول الصلاة من الحق محال لذلك طلب حصولها من العبد كما أن حصول الغفران لا يكون إلا من الحق لذلك طلب العبد من اللّه . ( ولهذا ) أي ولأجل كون المطلوب من الطرفين الإجابة

— and what each of them requests from the other by his command is nothing but the response (ijāba). And the response was [itself] what was sought: so what the servant sought from the Real, by saying 'My Lord, forgive me,' is the occurrence of forgiveness, and what the Real sought from the servant, by His saying 'and establish the prayer' [al-Baqara 2:43], is the establishment of the prayer — since the establishment of the prayer can only be conceived as [occurring] through the act of the servant, so the occurrence of the prayer from the Real is impossible; therefore its occurrence was sought from the servant — just as the occurrence of forgiveness can only be from the Real; therefore the servant sought it from God. ('And for this reason') i.e. because what is sought from both sides is the response

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الحَقُّ مِنَ العَبْدِ بِأَمْرِهِ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿الحق من العبد بأمره﴾

وهو الانقياد ( هو بعينه ما يطلبه الحق من العبد بأمره ) ، أي دعائه فإن العبد يقصد بدعائه الإجابة التي هي الانقياد من الحق فمطلوب كل من الحق والعبد بأمره هو الانقياد . ( ولهذا ) ، أي لكون كل مرتبة من المأمور والآمر لها حكم يظهر في أصحابها أو يكون طلوب كل واحد من الحق والخلق هو الانقياد

, and that is submission (inqiyād). (It is itself what the Real seeks from the servant by His command), that is, by his supplication (duʿāʾ), for the servant intends by his supplication the response (ijāba) which is submission from the Real. So what is sought by both the Real and the servant through the command is submission. (And for this reason), that is, because each rank - of the one commanded and the commander - has a governing rule that manifests in those who occupy it, or because what is sought by each of the Real and creation is submission

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ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī (d. 730/1330), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

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Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-Jandī (d. c. 691/1291), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

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ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī (d. 690/1291), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

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Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.

Ṣāʾin al-Dīn Ibn Turka (d. 835/1432), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0835SainDinTaraka.SharhFususHikam.IAC00087-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)

Print edition behind it: Not recorded by OpenITI: the barzakh file has no .yml metadata record, and the ibnalarabi.com page it was taken from names no printed edition.

Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/taraka.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.

Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.

Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0898NurDinJami.SharhMatnFususHikam.IAC00088-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)

Print edition behind it: Not recorded by OpenITI: the barzakh file has no .yml metadata record, and the ibnalarabi.com page it was taken from names no printed edition.

Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/jami_matn.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.

Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.

Muṣṭafā b. Sulaymān Bālī Zāde (d. 1073/1663), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 1073MustafaSulaymanBaliZadah.SharhFususHikam.IAC00082-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)

Print edition behind it: Not recorded by OpenITI: the barzakh file has no .yml metadata record, and the ibnalarabi.com page it was taken from names no printed edition.

Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/bali.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.

Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.

Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d. 673/1274), al-Fukūk fī asrār mustanadāt ḥikam al-Fuṣūṣ

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0673AbuMacaliQunawi.Fukuk.IAC00079-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)

Print edition behind it: Not recorded by OpenITI: the barzakh file has no .yml metadata record, and the ibnalarabi.com page it was taken from names no printed edition.

Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/qunawi.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.

Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.

Missing here: Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī: no text for chapters 15–27. The OpenITI barzakh file (and the ibnalarabi.com pages it was copied from) repeats chapter 14 in their place; a usable copy of the print has not yet been found.

The ibnalarabi.com texts sometimes print other hands inside a commentary: Bālī Zāde's glosses inside al-Qāshānī («إضافة بالي زادة»), and notes by the modern editor (al-muḥaqqiq) or compiler (al-jāmiʿ). We cut these out of the commentator's own text and show them as separate entries, each labelled with its author and the line of the file it came from.

Arabic of the commentaries from the OpenITI digital texts (each comment links to its line); Bosnevî's Ottoman Turkish from our collation of two OCRs of the 1873 Istanbul print (each comment links to its page scan at HathiTrust); passages matched to the commentators' quotations automatically.English translations of the commentaries and of the passage are AI (Claude) and marked. Differences are computed by comparing the words each commentator quotes with our working text; they may reflect a different manuscript reading, a paraphrase, or an alignment error. About this text.