ISBN: 9781235232404

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1875. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Commentary. grave i-tvts, it will mean quinam, as in his version of the words. Again, he says aXX'' ou, which is interpreted sed tion in the Vulgate, sometimes means nonne,v and in proof of this he adduces quotations from Lucian and Demosthenes. The Greek text, he asserts, is determined to either his meaning or the Vulgate reading by the accents, which were posterior to the translation of the Vulgate; and hence, the present accentuation of the Greek does not militate against him, as it had been made, merely in accordance with what was generally supposed to be the meaning of the words. He maintains that the reading of the two following verses favours his view of the case ; for, in verses 16, 17, 18, is the passage from David analysed : in the 16th, is pointed out the extent of the provocation, which, he says, includes all who left Egypt, but it was not imputed to the children under twenty on account of their age; in the 17th, the mtaning of forty years, &c.; and in the 19th, to whom I swore, &c. The chief defect in the foregoing reasoning would seem to be the absence of sufficient proof that all did provoke God. Because, if the murmurings of those who had not reached their twentieth year, and who were not included in the six hundred thousand numbered, were not imputable to them, owing to their age, as Mauduit himself admits, how could he say that all who left Egypt did provoke him? for, though all murmured, according to him, still, he admits that this murmuring was not imputed to all: and hence all did not provoke him. And in point of fact, those under the age of twenty did enter the Land of Promise; and hence, it may be held that all did not provoke him. The authority then of the Vulgate, and its conformity with almost every other version of ... John Macevilly, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, An Exposition Of The Epistles Of St. Paul Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction <

ISBN: 1235232409

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ISBN: 1235232409

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