Miscellanies, antiquarian and historical / By F. Sayers.

  • Sayers, F. (Frank), 1763-1817.
Date:
1805
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    T By others§ again, it is ftrenuoufly contended that the ancient language of the Jews was the ori- ginal infpired language of man; that this language was received by Abraham from his forefathers, and tranfmitted by him to his defcendants; the moft convincing arguments in favour of this opinion are, that the Jews can hardly be fuppofed to have adopted the language of a hateful and impious nation; that the Law of Mofes, which was at all times intelligi- ble to the Jews previous to the captivity, was writ- ten by command of the Deity, or in part by the finger of God himfelf, in the original infpired lan- guage; and that the words (particularly proper names for example) which were in ule among the Jews when refiding in Canaan, were as truly He- brew in their etymology as words of an earlier date, which occur in the Old Teftament. With refpect to the term Canaanitifh applied by Hfaiah to the § Lightfoot (Heb. and Talmud, Exercitat. p. 644.) Gre- gory Sharpe (Hebrew Grammar, p, 22.) Parkhurlt (Preface to Hebrew Lexicon, and the word NV) and the whole Hutchinfonian {chool, B2 Jewith