Talmai — Addition E 3: They forget gratitude and think to escape God's justice. Licence: English and apparatus CC BY 4.0 (Talmai, Wroot Press); Greek from Swete, CC BY-SA. https://talmai.wrootpress.com/rights/ Canonical: https://talmai.wrootpress.com/unit/esth-plus-08.12-03/ Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.8.1a-24a GREEK: καὶ τὴν εὐχαριστίαν οὐ μόνον ἐκ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀνταναιροῦντες, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς τῶν ἀπειραγάθων κόμποις ἐπαρθέντες, τοῦ τὰ πάντα κατοπτεύοντος ἀεὶ θεοῦ μισοπόνηρον ὑπολαμβάνουσιν ἐκφεύξεσθαι δίκην. ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): and doing away with gratitude, not only among men, but also, puffed up by the boasts of those who have no experience of goodness, they suppose they will escape the justice of the God who always sees all things and hates evil. PARALLELS: - [Verbatim] Tosefet le-Esther, צו המלך השני (Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'יחשבו אשר כח בהם מיעודי השם הרואה הכל' renders Addition E's charge that the ungrateful suppose they escape the all-seeing God's justice, not in MT. - [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 15b:20:2 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. The angels' night-long cry 'ingrate, repay the one who did you a kindness' is Addition E's specific charge of doing away with gratitude toward a benefactor. - [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I 1:10 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I) — conduit: lost intermediary. Haman's letter grounds the decree explicitly in Jewish ingratitude -- they keep a festival celebrating the death of Pharaoh, who 'did them many kindnesses' -- matching Addition E's opening charge that 'they forget gratitude... and think to escape the justice of the God who sees all,' a specific ingratitude-to-a-benefactor frame absent from MT. - [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 3:8 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. The circular's charge that they keep a festival rejoicing at the death of Pharaoh 'who did them many kindnesses' matches Addition E's opening principle of ingratitude to a benefactor, a specific detail MT 3:8 does not supply. - [Motif] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1057:3 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. The angel beats the sleeping king crying 'כפוי טובה כפוי טובה' at the very moment of his insomnia, matching the plus's charge of doing away with gratitude; not MT material. - [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 8:13:1 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. 'By their guile and falsehood they deceived the kingdom and wrote letters improper before Heaven and evil among men' includes the specific escaping-justice charge matching Addition E's ingrates who suppose they will escape the justice of the all-seeing God.