A47407:707
The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,…
The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, proved to be an holy ordinance of Jesus Christ with an answer to all objections : as also, an examination of Mr. Isaac Marlow's two papers, one called, A discourse against singing, &c., the other, An appendix : wherein his arguments and cavils are detected and refuted / by Benjamin Keach ...
London: printed for Author, 1691
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The first Instance which he gives as serviceable to his Design is, Psal. 78. 63. where he supposes the LXXII Translators were not acquainted with [Greek or Hebrew], as a Song of Praise, or Marriage-Song, which is more than he can tell; for it is very probable they mistook the Radix [Greek or Hebrew] he grieved, or rather [Greek or Hebrew] he lamented, for [Greek or Hebrew] and so translated [Greek or Hebrew] [Greek or Hebrew], did not lament. Of this you see more in Musc. on the place. But such as took the Radix [Greek or Hebrew], have translated the words otherwise, as Jun. and Trem. Non Epithalamiocelebratae sunt, i. e. were not honoured with a Wedding-Song; and to this sense the words are rendered in six or seven Translations more. Here the Antecedent is put for the Consequent, viz. Praising or honouring with a Nuptial-Song, for Marriage it self. Hence appears the unskilfulness of this Author, and his Ignorance in imposing upon his Reader.
The first Instance which he gives as serviceable to his Design is, Psal. 78. 63. where he supposes the LXXII Translators were not acquainted with 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as a Song of Praise, or Marriage-Song, which is more than he can tell; for it is very probable they mistook the Radix 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 he grieved, or rather 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 he lamented, for 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and so translated 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, did not lament. Of this you see more in Musc. on the place. But such as took the Radix 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, have translated the words otherwise, as Jun. and Trem. Non Epithalamiocelebratae sunt, i. e. were not honoured with a Wedding-Song; and to this sense the words are render'd in six or seven Translations more. Here the Antecedent is put for the Consequent, viz. Praising or honouring with a Nuptial-Song, for Marriage it self. Hence appears the unskilfulness of this Author, and his Ignorance in imposing upon his Reader.