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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…
A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
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.
Yea, the Jesuits of the English College of Douai in their Bible acknowledge, that this story is translated out of Theodotion's edition, and this is the oldest Original which they can allege for it. And besides this it may ⟨p. 100⟩be understood of the Assembly of Elders, when the Elders say to Daniel, [Greek or Hebrew], which those Jesuits of Douai render thus, because God hath given thee the honour of old age. Others the honour of an Elder, or an ancient. But I know no reason why the word may not here signify there Assembly of Elders. God hath given thee the Assembly of Elders, that is, God hath given thee thy petition, and thy desire, which was the meeting again of the Assembly of Elders, as is plain by the verses preceding: Even as God gave to his praying children this present Parliament,
Yea, the Jesuits of the English Colledge of Doway in their Bible acknowledge, that this story is translated out of Theodotions edition, and this is the oldest Originall which they can alledge for it. And besides this it may ⟨p. 100⟩be understood of the Assembly of Elders, when the Elders say to Daniel, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which those Jesuits of Doway render thus, because God hath given thee the honour of old age. Others the honour of an Elder, or an ancient. But I know no reason why the word may not here signifie there Assembly of Elders. God hath given thee the Assembly of Elders, that is, God hath given thee thy petition, and thy desire, which was the meeting again of the Assembly of Elders, as is plaine by the verses preceeding: Even as God gave to his praying children this present Parliament,
2. If the Apostle had meant to express the dignity or degree of an Elder, he would rather have used the word [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew], which Greek writers use pro senum honore vel dignitate, then [Greek or Hebrew], which is not used in that sense.