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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    Their Summer. L t i. & %$j which was a certaine coineof gold in vie among the Perfians, and from King Darius (whole image one fide thereof bore) was named Daricen, and amongft the Chaldeans is often prefixed before a word, as n is amongft the Heir ewes. The value cf this coine was of ours 15.&. Their Summcs. V Their Sutnmeswere two TWO Maneh, [xvZ^Mina, a Pound.] ngold it weighed one hundred Shekels.This appeart th by comparing theie texts, 1 King. 10.17. Tres idanim,Three pound of geld went to one fhield.Now we reade*2 Chron.j. 16.Three hundred Shekels of gold wenrto or.efhield. The name She¬ kels y\s not expreffed in the originall, bntneceflarily vndtrftood, asappearcthin that which was fpoken of Zahab. For it is a receiued sule, that in Scripture* jiurum being put with a numeral}f\gnifieih fo many Shekels of geld: 2nd fo Argentum in like manner.The weight thcrof then being one hundred Shekels, it fol¬ lowed that the value was 7 5. It. Infiluer their Maneh Weighedjjixty shekels,Ezek*45.12.forhat it valued 7.if.io.0. Note* that*Sheindler was decerned* in faying that the price or value of the Maneh, was -TUT3 changed in Ezekiels time, becaufe it then valued So. Shekels, for the difference is notbetweene the (acred and prophane Maneh, as Sheindler ccnceincth itjbut betweene the Maneh of gold* which was va¬ lued at an hundred Shekels alwaves, and the Maneh 0 * ©ffilucr, which weighed 60. shekels * according to the forequoted place in Ezekiel. <\l The