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…

and that, though the people did [Greek or Hebrew], yet not they, but the [Greek or Hebrew], or judges, did [Greek or Hebrew], ordain, or appoint a Magistrate, See ibid jusjurandum Heliastarum. As for the objection from Acts 10. 41. [Greek or Hebrew] is not the same with [Greek or Hebrew], but as it were the ⟨p. 15⟩preventing of [Greek or Hebrew] by a prior designation. 2. It is there attribute to God [Greek or Hebrew], that in the counsel of God the Apostles were in a manner Elected by voices of the Trinity, as faciamus hominem, Gen. 1. and hindereth no more the proper signification of the word applied to men, then [Greek or Hebrew] ascribed to God, can prove, that there is no change in men when they repent, because there is none in God. As for that objection made by a learned man, that even the Septuagints Isay 58. 9. have [Greek or Hebrew] not for extensio or elevatio manuum, but for that which is in the Hebrew immissio or innixus digiti or manus. Answer, 1. It is not put for innixus digiti, but for extensio digiti, for so is the text. 2. Sanctius following Cyril, tells us that the sense of the 70. turning the text so; was this, Nempe hic intelligi suffragia quibus magistratus creantur, a quibus raro solet abbess munerum largitio & corruptio juris. So that his argument may be retorted, I do not say that this is the Prophets meaning, but that it is the 70. their sense of the text in using that word, for the most Interpreters understand by putting forth the finger there, derision, and disdain. 3. The 70. certainly did not intend the putting on, but the putting out of the finger, so the Chaldee hath annuere digito, Heirome, extendere digitum, which well agreeth with the Hebrew Shekach digitum extendere. i. e. malum opus perlongare, saith Hugo Cardinalis. It is saith Emanuel Sa, minando, aut convitiando, (which seemeth the true sense) The Jesuits of Douai read, and cease to stretch out the finger. Gualther readeth emissionem digiti, and expoundeth thus medij digiti, ostensio erat contemptus judicium, digitis item minitamur, suppose none of all these signify the laying on of the hands, or finger, but suppose that it is not laid on, and so much shall suffice concerning these Scriptures, Acts 6. 2, 3, 5. 6. and