A Review and Defence of Two Dissertations Concerning the Etymology and Scripture-Meaning of the Hebrew Words Elohim and Berith; By Thomas Sharp, Part II, and III. - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1755. Excerpt: ... SECT. XV. fT'HEODOTION renders n"D in Job xl. 28. by AamfijijLM, and SymmachuS, 2 Sam. iii. 21. by o-um6up, as appears in the Hexapla: From whence the Lexicon to the Hexapla gives pangere fœdus among the fenses of Carath. And this agrees with the LXX version in which PTO in 2 Chron. vii. 18. (where it occurs without a noun expressive of Covenant) is rendered by r»f9t/w, the fame word commonly used for it in that version when Bcrith is joined with it. And though the LXX do not constantly keep to W»(V., but use occasionally w"u or aviltMv, yet they never translate it by any word that carries the idea of cutting in it, The Apostles likewise in quoting the Old Testament, make use of no other Greek words than these (except riltMepw) though though they do not always keep to the.very word used by the LXX, Thus so? instance, Heb. viii, 8. St Paul gives a.vUeteru for »mD, Jer. xxxi, 31. where the LXX gives Jafl»wctA«». And viii. 9. he puts nro»nr for '/TO, Jer. xxxi. 32. where the LXX use Mtftm. And ix. 20. he renders pro Exod. xxiv. 8. by M1h% which the LXX had rendered by Sidtlo. Whence I conclude, that since neither the LXX nor the New Testament give the least hint that cutting off a purifier is the meaning of the Hebrew phrase; therefore it is not the meaning of it. Amsflwmi according to Mr Bates supposition that it may signify Sacrifice because it signifies Institution, may be brought to sig-. nify an hundred other institutions beside that of Sacrifice. For Institution is a general abstract word, extending to every appointment, and established ceremony, in. as great a latitude as ssouu and oWtAtu, general verbs of Action, are applicable to Ordinances, Divine or Human, "Berith, "(says Mr Bate) is what the LXX trans' slat...

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