Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews

The LXX. far worse; [Greek or Hebrew]; And this is the name that the Lord shall call him Josedec. A corrupt word formed out of the two Hebrew words in the Original, signifying nothing, but perverted as it were on purpose to despoil the Messiah of his glorious name, the evidence of his eternal Deity. Symmachus [Greek or Hebrew]; Lord justify us; He seems as one observes to have read [Greek or Hebrew] in Pihel; but yet this also obscures the Text.

The LXX. far worse; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; And this is the name that the Lord shall call him Josedec. A corrupt word formed out of the two Hebrew words in the Original, signifying nothing, but perverted as it were on purpose to despoil the Messias of his glorious name, the evidence of his eternal Deity. Symmachus 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; Lord justifie us; He seems as one observes to have read 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in Pihel; but yet this also obscures the Text.

The Chaldee according unto its usual manner, when any thing occurs which its Author understood not, gives us a gloss of its own sufficiently perverting the sense of the place. [Greek or Hebrew] let righteousness come forth to us from before the Lord in his days. Let them consider this instance, which is but one of many that may be given, who are ready to despise the Original Text, to prefer Translations before it, and to cherish suspicions of its being corrupted by the Jews, or of their arbitrary inventions of its Points or Vowels, whereby the sense of the words is fixed and limited. Can there be any clearer acquitment of them in this matter, than this certain Observation; that every place almost which bears Testimony unto any thing concerning the Messiah which is denied by them, is far more clear in the Original, than in any old Translation what ever. And hereof we have an eminent instance in this place, where this name denoting undeniably the Divine Nature of the Messiah, is preserved entire only on the Original, and that as it is pointed, as some fancy by some Jewish Masarites who lived they know not where, nor when. And those amongst our selves who are ready to give countenance unto such Opinions, or to admire the promoters of them, may do well to consider what reflection they cast thereby on that Translation which is of use among us, by the Command of Authority, than which there is no one extant in the world, that is more Religiously observant of the Hebrew Text, and that as pointed in their Bibles; nor hath it any regard unto any, or all Translations, where they differ from the Original, as may be seen with especial respect unto that of the LXX. the stream that feeds most of the rest, in above a thousand places. But this by the way.