Talmai — Addition E 5: Malice deceives the sincere good faith of rulers.
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Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.8.1a-24a

GREEK: τῷ τῆς κακοηθείας ψευδεῖ παραλογισμῷ παραλογισαμένων τὴν τῶν ἐπικρατούντων ἀκέραιον εὐγνωμοσύνην.
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): deceiving, by the false reasoning of malice, the sincere good faith of those who hold power.

PARALLELS:
- [Flagged] Esther Rabbah 7:13 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: lost intermediary. Haman's lie that Israel's God 'has grown old and can do nothing' overturning the sages' initial refusal matches Addition E's abstract description of malice deceiving 'the sincere good faith of those who hold power' — the same non-MT scene of deceptive persuasion.
- [Verbatim] Tosefet le-Esther, צו המלך השני (Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'להפך בחבל כזב' renders Addition E's distinctive charge that malice deceives the sincere good faith of rulers, not in MT.
- [Verbatim] Targum Sheni on Esther 8:13:1 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. Targum Sheni 8:13 reproduces Addition E clause by clause in the Greek's order (review §3); verbatim under the written standard.
- [Motif] Megillah 13b:16 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'No one knew slander like Haman' directly matches the plus's 'deceiving, by the false reasoning of malice, the sincere good faith of those who hold power.'
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I 1:8 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I) — conduit: lost intermediary. Ahasuerus's own sound judgment ('we cannot prevail against them, their God never abandons them... desist from this evil') is overborne by Haman's persuasion -- matching Addition E's precise claim that malice deceives 'the sincere good faith of those who hold power.'
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 3:9 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. The king refuses to sell the Jews and Haman argues him out of it with a false premise ('that was true while God favored them, but now his house is destroyed and he is angry with them') -- matching Addition E's 'malice deceiving... the sincere good faith of those who hold power' precisely.
- [Motif] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1051:5 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. The same passage makes the advisers, not the king, the culprits who are punished for deceiving him — matching the plus's 'deceiving... the sincere good faith of those who hold power'; not MT material.
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Abba Guryon 2:1 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Abba Guryon) — conduit: lost intermediary. The same passage's explicit premise -- the king acted 'not of my own knowledge but on the counsel of the princes' -- is the specific mechanism Addition E names as advisers deceiving the sincere good faith of those in power.