other religions). For the rendering of the relative clause see on 2:23. Balinese employs here one of its other formulas to introduce a quotation, viz. ‘which its-wording (lit. its-being-pronounced) thus’, thereby trying to suggest that the words quoted were read aloud. Exegesis pneuma kuriou ep’ eme ‘the Spirit of the Lord is upon me’, cp. on 2:25. The Spirit is the Spirit of prophetic inspiration, cp. Hos. 9:7; Micah 3:8; Ezek. 2:2; 3:24; 11:5. hou heineken echrisen me ‘because he has
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