A30574:1192
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And the Priests thereof that rejoiced on it.
And the Priests thereof that rejoyced on it.
The Priests they especially mourn. The word that is here translated Priests, 1it is in the Hebrew Chemarims, and I find it signifies three things the word from whence it comes.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Chemarim what it signifies〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Chemarim what it signifies
Chemar signifies to sound out, and so some think that it ⟨p. 389⟩is they are called Chemarims, because of their clamorous sounds that they were wont to have in their superstitious worship: Just as we were wont to have Bellowing in their Cathedrals, so they were wont to have, and therefore they were called Chemarims, because of their mighty noises and sounds that they were wont to have.