The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude.
- Date:
- 1732
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the Opinion of a learned jew7 according to Castalio. No doubt the Septuagint Interpreters were of that Mind, fince they have tranflated that Place, tov 7rAa]ovg rov the flat of the cihigh, 7rxdrog latitudo, fays Rob. Con- stantinus, dijfert a profun'ditate -> Proprie eft planum, quod, quia etiam latum eft, vu/ga Plat. Gallice dictmus, oItto tov 7rKdrog: Nimi- Tutu duel a Origine, quod eft to ttX&tv dicitur. I come next to which declares the fad Effedt of the Blow J a c o b did receive upon his Thigh. 1. There's not one Angle Place of Scrips cure to authorize the arbitrary Tranflation of the Interpreters, who have been fo unmerci¬ ful as to diflocate the Femur of the good Patriarch j but I hope to make him come off with a Bruife, or at the uemoft with a Wound. 2. That Verb taken metaphorically fignh fies, to have a Platted and Averfion for fame Body. Be thou irfiru5iedy 0 Jerufalem, left my Soul depart from thee, }erem. vi. 8. ft hen my Mind was alienated from hery Ezech. xxiii. 18. 3. As for the literal Meaning of the Word, we find it in fo few Places of Scripture, that, what we can fay is only by Conjecture. It H feems](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
