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y^to's Ignorance ( not to fay worfe ) that made
him ridicule the Qu^rift, ( altho' an ancient
Member of his own Church, and one that hath
been both a Deacon and an Elder in time pafl:
and fpcak fo diminutively of him as he hath
done in divers places of his Book.
But Mr. jiUm is not fatislied with this, but
makes a further remark upon it, and gives ie this
fine name of a Fancy.
His words are thefe, ' I Ihal) therefore dif*
* mifs this Fancy with only Noting, That (hould
* this new Interpretation be admitted, then
* where 'tis faid, ^ad and Silas fang praifes to
' Go^^ and the prifoncrs heard them^ the meaniog
' would be, ths^ lamentedfo loudy
* heard thein,
)
that the j^rifoners
I anfwer, i. Bj^ letting himkno^^, there are
many words in Scripture ufed in a very different
lignification.
As for inftance, the word Tl?, harachj is
rendred, he blefed^ in many places in the Old
Teftament ^ and in other places when it is fpoken
of Curling God, it being accounted by the Hehews
fo horrid, they will not exprefs it by a
proper word of curfing, but put hleff^ for it ^
as in the cafe of the falfe witndfes againft Na^hoth^
I Kings 21. 10, 13. the words are, n?o«^/.^/?
blefs God and the King -^
and in -z^. 13. Nahoth did
hlefs God and the King : Now in this place it mult
-be underflood to curfe^ and therefore our Tr anflators
have rendred it according to the true
Scope, Blafpheme God and the King. In Job 2. 5.
the word is harach^ he bkftd^ but it's thus tranllated,
He will curfe thee to thy face *, and in v» 9.
it's the fame word, and yet it^s rendred C/ir/i? God
md dye. F 4 Again,