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I could cite many
. other Teftimonies, if tbcre
were occalion \ but thefe are fufficient to curb
his Infolency againft the Qiierift, and to prove
that he only^ and not the Qiierift, is an hm^
ramus.
But (faith he) I have fenrched all the places
where this word is ufed by the Seventy^
a.nd can find nothing in tlient for this Sueeeftion.
^^
This feems to be done on purpofe to make
his Reader believe the Querift had direded
him to the Seventy for his Authority, Whereas
he faith not one word about them, therefore
( rather than want bufinefs ) he hath fet up a
man of ftraw oi his own to fence againft.
But { wonder how he dares affirm, that he hath
fearched all the places where it's ufed by the
Seventy^ when the Learned Weemfe^ in his Ghrlftian
Synagogue, faith, ' ThisTranflationof the
^Seventy pcrKhed When the Library oi Ptolemy
* was burnt by Tom^cy^ therefore they are but
' fragments of it which we have now.
Belides, the Seventy were not h^Trviv^i^ divinely
infpired, and therefore might err as well as
others. It is recorded of them, that they purpofely
changed fome places, for fear of giving offence
to Ptolemy and his Q^ieen.
As they do not tranftate the Hebrew word by
AAyco\^ a Hare, but Jk.-i^yr'oJk^
rough foot v becaufe
the Queen was called Amhath^ a Hare, kit (lie
fhould fuppofe they mocked her, L€zik,ii.6,
And in Dent, 32. 8. where they fbould have rendred
it the Children of Ifrael^ they tranfiaced It
Angels of God, leaft the Heathen fhould beof«
fended wi^h y/r^(?i*s being equalled with the reit
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