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The Efficacy is set down in two words, [Greek or Hebrew], which is to be understood of the operation of the holy Ghost, not his essence, for that is every where; The like expression, though to another purpose is Acts 1. 8.

The Efficacy is set down in two words, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which is to be understood of the operation of the holy Ghost, not his essence, for that is every where; The like expression, though to another purpose is Acts 1. 8.

The second word is [Greek or Hebrew], concerning which there is more difficulty; The word in the New Testament is applied to a Cloud covering a man, with a Dative Case, though Favorinus and Stephanus make it to have usually an Accusative, Matth. 17. 5. Mark 9. 7. and Acts 5. 15. such an overshadowing, as they expected virtue and efficacy thereby; So Heysichius [Greek or Hebrew]. In the Old Testament by the Septuagint it is often rendered for defence and protection, because in these hot Countries the shadows of trees were a great preservation against the extreme scorchings of heat; And in this sense rather then in any other, we take the word in the Text, that the holy Ghost should protect and defend her, not only in the enabling of her against nature to conceive without a man, but also against all accusations and dangers she was to be exposed unto by this means; Thus Virgil used the word, Et magnum Reginae nomen obumbrat. Others which may be additional to the former, render it, The holy Ghost shall fill her with glory, therefore she is said to be highly favoured; And thus also among Poets the word is said to be used, Olympiacis umbratur tempora ramis, Stat. Some make it to be as much as [Greek or Hebrew], as if the meaning were the holy Ghost should (as it were) portray and draw the lineaments of the body Others make it an allusion to the hen, which by covering her egg, doth by the heat thereof produce a live young one, to which also the Scripture is said to allude,