A Review and Defence of Two Dissertations Concerning the Etymology and Scripture-Meaning of the Hebrew Words Elohim and Berith (Volume 1 ) - 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. 1754. Excerpt: ... The fame expression occurs in another place of this epistle, where our translators have given avo byJince.-For then must he have often suffered Jince the foundation of the world, Heb. ix. 26. 1 think Mr Holloway would succeed just as well in the application of the fame reasoning 'verbatim to this text (in order to (hew that Jince might be render'd more properly before) as he has succeeded in applying it to the other exprejjion of the fame writer that has been under examination. I F I have scem'd tedious or over-curious in discuss1ng this particular, which in the eye of some may appear very minute, I hope it will be remember'd that, /mall as it is, consider'd in itself, it has been used as the mainjlep to a conclusion of very great consequence. And that my setting it quite aside as an argument (which I flatter myself is now done) and thereby breaking the chief link of the proposed demonJirationy has saved me the trouble of replying to those triumphant encomiums that are bestowed on " Upon the whole," (says Mr Holhivay, p. 8.) "such is the vast tour of thi3 noble contest: It enters, as "the occasion of the apostolic argument led, into the 11" ' middle on she pretended conclus1on for five pages together. And whenever Mr Holloway shall be able to shew either from the grammatical construction of the particle Ato, or from the apparent scope of the place, or from esteem'd versions Old or New-f-, or from any other good authority, that it ought to be render'd in this text BEFORE instead of FROM, it will then be time enough to take the remainder of his disquisition on this passage into closer consideration: And particularly his distinction between the oath, and the word of the oath Heb. vii. 28. which is altogether founded on his notion of the oath itself " being...

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