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When will our Learned Commentators agree in their expositions of the dark and obscure parts of ⟨p. 27⟩the Scripture? When will they give the same sense of the Prophecies of Daniel and the Revelations? Mr. Mede seems to have given the fairest account of them, and yet the Learned Dr. More dissents from him in many of his interpretations, as well as from Dr. Hammond, and his admired Hugo Grotius. And 'tis not only among Christian Writers that this diversity is found, but even among the Jewish Doctors: I shall only give one instance thereof amongst numberless numbers that might be produced: and that shall be from their expositions of the 53 Chap. of Isaiah. Abravanel in his enquiry concerning the Subject of that Prophecy tells us, that many of their Wise Men understand it על פשיח לעחיר לבא de Messiah venturo and thus Paehmanides understands it: Rabbi Saaidias understands it of Jeremiah the Prophet, and so doth Aben Esra and Rabbi Menachem, with whom Grotius assents, though not without some hesitation. Jarchi and both the Kimchi's (Father and Son) understand it of the Jewish Nation, which opinion he embraces and defends. Vide eum si placet in Commentariis fol 78. The like diversity is found among the Mahometans, as those that please may find in Mr. Pocock's specimen Historiae Arabum, and his notes upon it, as also in Hottinger's Historia Orientalis.

When will our Learned Commentators agree in their expositions of the dark and obscure parts of ⟨p. 27⟩the Scripture? When will they give the same sense of the Prophecies of Daniel and the Revelations? Mr. Mede seems to have given the fairest account of them, and yet the Learned Dr. More dissents from him in many of his interpretations, as well as from Dr. Hammond, and his admired Hugo Grotius. And 'tis not only among Christian Writers that this diversity is found, but even among the Jewish Doctors: I shall only give one instance thereof amongst numberless numbers that might be produced: and that shall be from their expositions of the 53 Chap. of Isaiah. Abravanel in his enquiry concerning the Subject of that Prophecy tells us, that many of their Wise Men understand it על פשיח לעחיר לבא de Messiah venturo and thus Paehmanides understands it: Rabbi Saaidias understands it of Jeremy the Prophet, and so doth Aben Esra and Rabbi Menachem, with whom Grotius assents, though not without some hesitation. Jarchi and both the Kimchi's (Father and Son) understand it of the Jewish Nation, which opinion he embraces and defends. Vide eum si placet in Commentariis fol 78. The like diversity is found among the Mahumetans, as those that please may find in Mr. Pococks specimen Historiae Arabum, and his notes upon it, as also in Hottingers Historia Orientalis.