A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

thus [Greek or Hebrew], but David was a King many years before he took in the hill and fort of Zion. I shall not stand here upon this erroneous transcribing of the words of the Septuagints: I might tell him again that Symmachus readeth [Greek or Hebrew]. I have anointed my King, having respect to the very first making him King, and this is the ne•rest rendering of the Original. But I will stand to that of the Septuagints: even their reading (without the least violence to their words) may be understood, not of the settling of ⟨p. 45⟩David after he took in the fort of Zion, but of Gods appointing and ordaining him to rule in, upon, or over Zion, which I do not doubt was their meaning, neither doeth the prepositions [Greek or Hebrew] at all hinder, but help this Interpretation of the Septuagint. See the like Mat. 25. 21. [Greek or Hebrew], This is not the fixing and settling of that good servant in that ruling power, but 'tis the first giving of it to him, the first making him ruler over many things, having before had but a few things, Luke 12. 44. [Greek or Hebrew] So Isocrates, [Greek or Hebrew]. I may confu•e him from the Septuagint themselves, Psal. 8. 6. [Greek or Hebrew] Dan. 1. 11: [Greek or Hebrew], &c. Will he say that the Septuagint meant that God settled and fixed the dominion which man had before over the creatures, or that the Prince of the Eunuchs did but settle and fix that government which Melzar had before over Daniel? If they mean in those places constituting and appointing (as it is most manifest they do) why not also Psal. 2. 6? God appointed David to be a King upon the holy hill of Zion, which is all that can be made out of the Septuagint. Well, but I will go yet further with him, to discover the futility of his exception: 'Tis true [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew] is sometime used for restoring and settling that which is out of 'its course, but how did he imagine that this sense of the word could agree to