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My, ChAtKUer. You muft know that BA'JFTj^a comes from ^^f\
^7abal, And I will fhew that Vi denotes fuch a Wafliing as
js (hort of Dipping. And in Dan. 4. 55. where ic is faid of Nebuchadnezzar,
His body was wet with the dew of Heaven j the SeptHagmt
render it Bolttj^^ : fo &hat it cannot be undeftood in your
fenfe.
Vr, RuffeL That BatTT/^o is ufed in the (lead of Tabal^ is true.
But how do you know that the Word was fo Rendred by the
Septuagint ^
Mr. Chandler, It is fo in that Tranflation that goes in their
Name.
Dr, Ruffel, That I deny •, for the Word there is Ebaphe, and
not Baptizp. But do you not know what VVemes faich in his
Chriflian Synagogue^ That the Septuagirtt Tranflatioi; was burnt,
and only feme Fragments cf it remaining, which was made up
by others : fo that neither you nor I know when we read the
Septuagint, and when we read other Men. But what dota all
this fignify."? That is but a TranHatioii, and I think ours to
be much better than that, if it were as you uy : and more
agreeable to the fcope of the place, to fay his body was wet
with the daw of Heaven^ than to fay it was dipt with the dew of
Heaven.
But I pray let Mr. Chandler tell us how it is in the Hebrew^
which is the Language in which it was written.
JMr, Chandler, The Word in the Hebrew isTabaL
Dr. Ruffel. That I deiiy.
Whereupon an Hebrew Bible was produced, and handed up to
Dr. Rkffel: And the Book of Daniel not being placed in its right
Order, as in ether Hebrew Bibles, he did not readily find it\
whereupon they cryM out, They bcliev'd he could not read k.
The Dr. anfwered, He could read Hebrew before Mr. Chandler
was bcrn : and as a demonftraticn of it, he read a Verfe or two
in the beginning thereof. Upon this Mr. -Ro3i/i/o« took the Book
and with fome difficulty fcuijd out the Book of Daniel., and th^n
gave it to Dr. Ruffel again, who read the Place by them direfted
to, and told Mr. Chandler that the Word Tabal was not there.
And then, after all this needlefs trouble, Mr. C/;- did confefs
that it was net : andfo all his Pretenfion fron> thence vani0ied
intoSmoak. ^ ...j.i , .
Mr. Chandler alio urged for another inftance, to prove that
f^k/ fignitied a Wafhing lefs than that by Dipping, 2 Kings 5.
10^1^. Go avdwaflj jnyordan, and be clean. And in Vcrfe 14.
He dipped himjelf in Jordan. Now this mufl fignifie a Walhing
(hort of Dipping ^ becaufe though Tabal doth exprefs the Aft
done in Ver. 14. yet the Command is given by Racbat^ which
ir^mfici to waJJh
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