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.

2. ⁂⁂⁂⁂, ‘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,’ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂.

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