A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

1. Enter thy closet, the word [Greek or Hebrew] Hesychius glosses by [Greek or Hebrew], a secret or recluse habitation, and Suidas by [Greek or Hebrew], a hiding place for treasures, by a Metonymy. The LXX (such as we have it) turn the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew] so frequently by [Greek or Hebrew], that we need enquire no further, as Gen. 43.30. Exod. 8.3. 2 Sam. 13.10. 1 Kings 1.15. and otherwhere for a chamber, a parlour, a bedchamber. Sometimes the word [Greek or Hebrew] foramen, caverna, a hole, cleft or cavern in a rock, as Isaiah 42.22. which they render also by [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] rima. The Etymon of the word being derived [Greek or Hebrew], from holes, pits, caves cut out in rocks, shows that it notes secret places for retirements or repositories. It's accordingly rendered by secret chambers, Math. 24.26. and by closets, Luke 12.3.

1. Enter thy closet, the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Hesychius glosses by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a secret or recluse habitation, and Suidas by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a hiding place for treasures, by a Metonymy. The LXX (such as we have it) turn the Hebrew word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 so frequently by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that we need enquire no further, as Gen. 43.30.