Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture : which texts are now added in the end of the booke ... Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people / By Thomas Godwyn.

  • Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 1587-1642.
Date:
1631
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Credit: Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture : which texts are now added in the end of the booke ... Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people / By Thomas Godwyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    added their cenfures and critical/obftrnations3 con¬ cerning the irregularity of many words., in refpetf: of the vowels and accents .Sixthly} they numbred the verfis, words ^and letters of cucry booke, to prcuent all poffibility of corrupting the T ext in future times, for now they fay the gift of prophecy fhould ceafe. Lajlly\they noted the different writ ings nd different reading : for the vnderltanding of which wee muit know,rhat in the Hebrew textwords are writ- ten with moreynmv with fewer letters,than they are pronounced ; u many words written in the text., u Sum otto voces,J which are not pronounced, &c. In the marginethe ?** fay** Pnaw difference is expreffed, whence the difference in the text they terme Cetbib, Scriptionem± the wri- dudt Maf** ting i the difference in the margine they terme K,lth,i lx' KerifLeliionem yhe reading: becaufe they doe rcade according to that in the margine. x This deference*coma im dijpu. is-drought by fome to bee a corre flion of the Bible5 tat Ella* L^u« according to feucrall copies after their returne from pf[n'lh!l Baby Ion,hut that it is of duuneauthority, containing many tnvfteriesknowne to Mofes, and the Prophets fuccelfiuely(thongh many of them vnknownetoour age)and that it was not any correction,but the diffe¬ rence it fdfe primarily and purpofelv was intended by the Prophets]Stiff holv pen-men ofthe Scripture., euidently appearexhby thediuerfity of readings in thofe bookSjWhich were written by Higgi, Zachary, JI ala chy,Daniel^and Efra,they being thq Authors of their owbe bookesgneeded no correction at that time th’emfckics beingprefent, vet in them this different reading is vfed. the third place , the propofition followcth, namely, Seeing that the Maforitesp iffcd their cenfure p on 1