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The right wayThe right vvay
The right way: or A direction for obtaining good success in a weighty enterprise. Set out in a sermon preached on the 12th of September, 1648. before the Lords on a day of humiliation for a blessing on a treaty between His Majesties and the Parliaments commissioners. / By W. Gouge.The right vvay: or A direction for obtaining good successe in a weighty enterprise. Set out in a sermon preached on the 12th of September, 1648. before the Lords on a day of humiliation for a blessing on a treaty between His Majesties and the Parliaments commissioners. / By W. Gouge.
London: printed by A. Miller for Joshua Kirton, 1648London: printed by A. Miller for Ioshua Kirton, 1648
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2.1 In particular this place is set out by a river which ran along by it: for it is here said to be, at the river Ahava. This name is thrice used in this Chapter:2 as in this text, in the 15, & 33. verses. We do not elsewhere read of this name, either in sacred Scripture, or in any other Author. The Septuagint translate it, [Greek or Hebrew] Some take Ahava to be the name of a Town: and this river to be so called, because it did run to Ahava (as vers. 15.) Many rivers are called by the names of those Towns which they run along by. This may be the same that is by other Authors called Adiava. Josephus in the eleventh book and fifth Chapter of the Antiquities of the Jews, saith, That this fast was kept by Euphrates. It may be that this river did stream out of Euphrates, or into it, as sundry rivers did in sundry places.
2.1 In particular this place is set out by a river which ran along by it: for it is here said to be, at the river Ahava. This name is thrice used in this Chapter:2 as in this text, in the 15, & 33. verses. We do not elsewhere reade of this name, either in sacred Scripture, or in any other Authour. The Septuagint translate it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Some take Ahava to be the name of a Town: and this river to be so called, because it did run to Ahava (as vers. 15.) Many rivers are called by the names of those Towns which they run along by. This may be the same that is by other Authours called Adiava. Josephus in the eleventh book and fifth Chapter of the Antiquities of the Jewes, saith, That this fast was kept by Euphrates. It may be that this river did stream out of Euphrates, or into it, as sundry rivers did in sundry places.
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