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The PREFACE. xi
racier the Greek Rhetoricians give of that Tart
of Oratory they call Aelvwais, which Qiiintilian
defines to be Oratio quse rebus afperis, indignis &
invidiofo vim addit, lib. vi. cap. 3 . its Troperty
being to aggravate Things in them/elves monftrous
and odious, and reprefent them with great Force
and Efficacy of Expreffion. For the fame Reafon
Rapin, in his Treatife of Eloquence, calls Eze-
kicl's Style Je Terrible, as havingfomething in it
thatfirikes the Reader with an Holy Thread and
Aftonifoment. j^
Jofephus lib. x. Antiq. cap. 6. divides this Tro-
phecy into two Books ; but it is generally fuppofed
that he took that Tart of the Trophecy which
contains a ^Defcription of the Temple, beginning
at the XLth Chapter, for a diftint~l Book from
the reft, as treating altogether of a different Sub"
jecJ.
St. Jerom hath more than once obferved }
that the Beginning and latter Tart of this Tro-
phecy is more than ordinary difficult and obfeure,
and may juftly be reckoned among the AwrvoWTa,
or Things in Scripture which are Hard to be un-
derftood. To contribute what I could to the clear-
(a) Pratfat. in Ezek. & in Prolog. Galeato,
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