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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![a new Verfe, which in Part would have prevented the Miftake? 2. I am at a great Lofs where to find the Emphafis even, for in the Hebrew, there’s no more than the Letter 1 [et] and Jehovah the Lord of Hofs, Jehovah his Memo¬ rial. 3. He found him in Beth el: The Pro¬ noun H e is not in the Original exprefly ^ and impoles upon the Reader, as if it did refer to an antecedent, viz. to the Messenger. 'This very fame fpoke to him, &c. 4. ’Tis the Difadvantage of modern Lan¬ guages, that every Verb (not in imperative or infinite Moods) muft have always before them a Noun, or a Pronoun for a Nomina¬ tive, but ’tis fo neither in Latiny Greek, or Hebrew. Here the Objection does immediately drop, if we put the Words in a dead Lan¬ guage, infteadof Englifhy Prcevaluit Angelo, & Juperior fuit, fevit & precatus eft eum. In Beth-el invenit eum, ibique locutus eft nobifcum [cum illo] & Dominus Deus exer- cituum, Dominus memoriale ejus. So that there’s no Neceflity to go up to the Angel, to find out the Nominative of invenit, we have it afterwards at the end of the Phrafe, viz. Dominus. 6. In](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
