A Review and Defence of Two Dissertations Concerning the Etymology and Scripture-Meaning of the Hebrew Words Elohim and Berith (Volume 2-3) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1755. Excerpt: ... Besides God's purifier should in all reason be understood of the Antitype, the Person typically represented by the calf. And so Mr Moody takes it/. 133. "Was "not every transgression, a transgressing a"gainst the Purifier, and the terms of his "Purification?" B u T Mr Moody should be asked here, whether to transgress against any person, be ever expressed by "ny used with that person, as it is here used with Berith? And the like question may be asked Mr Bate who takes another way of replying to mej p. 163. What sense shall we make o transgressing the Purifier?" Why passing him "by, and disregarding him. 13? is to "pass by or go beyond a thing. And this "is a phrase for contempt." B u T is it ever so used? The English phrases may be used in that sense: but I do not recollect that lay in Hebrew ever hath I 2 that But here he applies to "3y absolutely what can only be laid when it is used with ia. As in Gen. xv. where this Rite is first described, vtr. 17. DntJn l3 "13? And in this text inna ia rajn and mostly passed hetween the parts thereof, as our translators have rightly given it at the end of the verse. But the phrase now under consideration is rm anayn. that signification of passing by which implies contempt, though it hath another and contrary signification that implies pardon and forgiveness. His translation of the verse mp. 120. is this. "I will give the men who have ' transgressedI.my purification, which have "not performed the words of (or that "were spoke with) the purification which lc they slew before me the calf which they "cut in twain." &c Here I may repeat my former question in Dissertations, p. 115. How can a purification or the terms of a purification be said to be cut off? Or a purification (as Mr Bate now words it) be said to be s...