Review of the Paraphrase of the New Testament, 1 Peter – 2 John
On the firſt EPISTLE general of PETER.
Chap. I. ver. 18.
[Vain converſation.]
The Legal rites of external obedience, which wanted that inward purity which Chriſt came to teach us.
CHap. III. Note d.foreign Of Plato's underſtanding ſomewhat of the ſtory of the creation of Adam and Eve, Adde, Writing in foreign ▪ and Dial. foreign. that antiently male and female were put together in one body and were after by Jupiter cut aſunder, concluding, foreign, every one of us is the ſhare of a man, foreign, cut aſunder like the ſole-fiſhes, made two of one, and this is the reaſon, ſaith he, that every one ſeekes out and deſires a wife, foreign, every one the other part of him, foreign, endevouring to reunite the divided parts, to make one of two, and ſo to cure the diſmembred nature: To which fable S. Chryſoſtome referres, *To. 4. p. 157. li. 23.when he ſaith of man and woman foreign, they are as two halves cut aſunder.
foreign.Ibid. Note d. Of foreign, for reward, or gift, Adde, And ſo Ariſtotle, Rhet. l. 1. c. 5. among the parts of foreign honor, reckons foreign, gifts, honorarie donatives, foreign, for a gift is the giving of a poſſeſſion, and a ſigne of honor.
foreign.Ibid. Note e. Of the notion of foreign in Heſychius for foreign, Adde, So in Callimachus, foreign.
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I wiſh you may ſuffer no ill for this mercy to me, but that you may be rewarded for your charity, where foreign is clearly interpreted by almes, or mercy.
Ibid. Note f. After the ſetting down, and explicating the notion of foreign Gen. 6.3. for ſhall not abide as a ſword— in a ſheath, Adde,foreign. For the removing all improbableneſs of thus reading foreign (not foreign pernoctabit) and taking it in the notion of abiding or continuing in fleſh, and not of ſtriving, as the Interlinear, and our Engliſh render it, and as foreign indeed would require to be rendred, I ſhall onelyonly adde two things, 1. That the antient interpreters with one accord agree in the ſenſe of abiding or inhabiting. The Chaldee read foreign This evil generation ſhall not alwaies remain before me. The Syriack and Arabick, My ſpirit ſhall not dwell in man for ever: The 72. as we ſaid, foreign, ſhall not abide, and ſo the Latine, non permanebit, ſhall not abide. This is a ſtrong argument, that they, who when they meet with foreign, uniformely render it foreign, &c. by words of judging, yet rendring this in ſo diſtant a manner, did not read that word, or in that ſenſe, but foreign, as all copies have it, in a notion of abiding, or being in another. And although the Scripture of the Old Teſtament give us no farther inſight into this word, then that once we find foreign for a ſheath of a ſword, once for a body of a man, yet by theſe ſo diſtant notions of it, we have reaſon to ſuppoſe, that there was ſome original comprehenſive notion of it, belonging to more, or elſe could not have been applyed, in the Chronicles and in Daniel, to theſe two ſo diſtant particulars. A ſheath and a body differ much the one from the other▪ yet agree in this, that as one is the repoſitorie or abiding place of the ſword, into which it is put, ſo the other is of the ſoul; and from this agreement no doubt it is, that they are expreſs'd by the ſame word, And then it would be very ſtrange, if that word thus common to them, ſhould not natively ſignifie that, wherein they thus agree, viz. abiding or being put in, or kept in, or confined to ſuch a place, or ſome ſuch thing. 'Tis evident that many Hebrew words are of a far greater latitude of ſignification, and comprehenſiveneſs, than we can by the uſe of them in the Bible (which is but a volume of a narrow compaſs) diſcern, or conjecture, as appears eſpecially by the uſe of them in Arabick books, which language is certainly but a dialect derived from the Hebrew. And therefore it is not unreaſonable on the grounds premiſed, and thoſe more than obſcure indications in the Bible, which we have of it, that this ſhould be the native meaning of the verb, though in other places of the Bible we do not exactly meet with it. The ſecond thing is, that though foreign were not the reading, nor by the 72. and the other interpreters beleeved to be ſo, yet 'tis ſo ordinary for words of affinity in ſound or writing, to have a neerneſs of ſignification, that theſe interpreters, which did not alwaies render literally, but oft by way of paraphraſe, might probably enough have an eye to the notion of foreign for abiding, and ſo render it foreign to remain, or abide, foreign.for which in this matter S. James uſeth foreign to ſojourne, or abide, as in an Inne, for a night, Jam. 4.5. for after this manner of liberty it is, that the Jeruſalem Targum on this verſe, evidently takes in both the interpretations of foreign and foreign. In the latter ſenſe from foreign to judge, their Paraphraſe thus begins, Non adjudicabuntur generationes quae futurae ſunt poſt generationem in diluvio perditioni vaſtationi aut deletioni univerſali; The generations which ſhall be after the generation of the flood, ſhall not be adjudged to an Ʋniverſal perdition, vaſtation, or blotting out. A truth indeed ſecured by Gods promiſes at large, c. 8.21. and 9.11. but no way pertinent to this place, where the deluge it ſelf is threatned. OnelyOnly on occaſion of the affinity in ſound and writing of foreign, not judging, here, to foreign this part of the Paraphraſe, though aliene to the place, ſeems to be begotten: But then for the former, as the words are und…ub…edly read foreign ſo the Paraphraſe proceeds in relation to them; Annon ſpiritum meum ſiliis hominum indidi? Have I not put my ſpirit into the ſonnes of men? an evident proof of their underſtanding foreign in a notion of putting one thing into another, which conſequently may be reſolved to be the general acception of the active verb, and then that which is ſo put ▪ doth abide in it, as in a repoſitorie of ſome ſort, or other; ſuch is a ſheath to a ſword, a priſon to him that is put into it, a cabinet to that which is laid up in it, the body to the ſoul, as long as the man lives, and accordingly S. Chryſoſtome gives his Scholion,foreign. foreign [My ſpirit ſhall not alwaies abide among theſe men] is inſtead of I will not ſuffer them to live any longer. For as for foreign my ſpirit or breath—
Ibid. foreign.Of the interpretation of foreign, he went and preached in, or by, that ſpirit by which he was now raiſed, Adde, Where 1. The word foreign Chriſt is uſed, not foreign God, according to the general opinion of the antient fathers of the Church, that he which of old appeared to the Patriarchs, was (not the firſt but) the ſecond perſon in the Trinity, Chriſt the ſonne, not God the Father, and that thoſe appearances of his were praeludia incarnationis, preluſory, and preparative to his taking our fleſh upon him. And accordingly thoſe verſes of the Sibylline Oracle, which introduce God ſpeaking to Noah about the Ark, and ſetting down the ſpeakers names by Numbers,
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*So Guil. Canterus rightly reads it, not. foreign.foreign,
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foreign *So again, Guil. Cant. not, foreign.foreign —)
are beſt interpreted by foreign, God ſaviour, i. e. Chriſt, for to thoſe two words, belongs all that is ſaid in thoſe verſes, they conſiſt of nine letters, four ſyllables, the three firſt of two letters a piece, and the fourth of the remaining three, of five conſonants, and four vowels, and ſo likewiſe the numeral importance of each letter amounteth to the juſt number of 1692. as it is there deſcribed. See Canter. Novar. Lect. l. 1. c. 3. Secondly the phraſe, &c.
foreign.Ibid. Note h. To foreign the antitype of which, Adde, As for the word foreign, It may perhaps be here fit to note, that as it is certainly beſt rendred Antitype, to reſerve the ſignification of the Greek, whatſoever ſhall here appear moſt fitly to belong to it, ſo the Greek is capable of very diſtant ſenſes. For 1, It ſignifies (not a like but) a contrary, So in *In Hierone.Xenophon, foreign, Matters of favour are done by the Prince himſelf, but the contrary by other men. So ſaith Heſychius of it. foreign, and foreign, It ſignifies contrariety or contradiction, and ſo we know the prepoſition foreign moſt ordinarily imports; And this the place would not unfitly bear, that Baptiſme is quite contrary to the ark of Noah, but yet ſaves as that ſaved; There the deſtruction was by water, and only they were ſaved, which got into the ark, but here water is the means of ſaving from deſtruction, and they periſh, which have not this immerſion or baptiſme here ſpoken of. Beſide this there is a ſecond Notation of this word, as foreign ſignifies pro, as well as contra, and ſo it may here be fitly rendred. For when it is compounded in the notion of pro, it notes [inſtead of another, as foreign, Proconſul, is he that ſupplies the Conſuls place, is in his ſtead. And ſo it may be here, foreign, baptiſme inſtead, or ſupplying the office of the Ark, ſaves us now: In this ſenſe Antitype is ordinarily taken among us, for that which (is not it ſelf a type, or figure, but) ſupplies the place of ſome former type; ſo purity of the heart is the Antitype of circumciſion, i. e. that which is now by Chriſt required inſtead of that ceremonie among the Jewes. But beſide both theſe, there is a third notation of the word, for foreign, a copie, differing from foreign, ſo as the impreſſion in the waxe differs from the ingraving in the Seal. So the Old Gloſſarie renders both thoſe words foreign, and foreign by exemplum and exemplar. And thus is the word uſed, Heb. 9.24. and generally in the Eccleſiaſtick writers, and is beſt expreſs'd by parallel, or anſwerable, and may ſo here fitly be rendred, parallel whereunto Baptiſme—
Chap. IV. ver. 3.
[Revellings, *Drinkings. foreign.banquetings.]
Amorous addreſſes (ſee Rom. 13. e.) Bacchanals—
foreign.Ibid. Note e. Read, What foreign here ſignifies, will eaſily be defined from the notion of the Hebrew foreign, which ſignifies two things, to perſecute, and to ſet on fire. So Pſal. 10.2. where the Hebrew is rendred by us [the wicked doth perſecute the poor] the 72. read [foreign, the poor is ſet on fire] And ſo again, foreign which ſignifies to try, either as gold is by the fire, or as men by afflictions, is by the 72. Pſal. 17.3. rendred foreign caſting into the fire. And accordingly foreign regularly will ſignifie in general any kind of affliction, &c.
foreignChap. V. Note a. Of the notion of foreign, for maintaining their ſtate out of their ſubjects purſes, to Xenophon, Adde, And *St…bae. p. 486.Callicratides the Pythagorean in his book of the felicity of families, intimates the ſame by his definition of deſpotick government, foreign, that which reſpects the rulers own profit, and not the ſubjects.
foreign.Ibid. Note d. Of foreign for the Church Adde, Thus I ſuppoſe the word is uſed in Ignatius's Epiſtle to the Trallians, or by the interpolator, if that be not the originall reading, where ſpeaking of Biſhops he ſaith, foreign, Eccleſia non eſt caetus evocatus, aut peculiaris, i. e. in effect the Church is not a Church of ſuch as it ought; And ſo it muſt be underſtood by thoſe words, which follow in Videlius's copy, and if they were not written by Ignatius, ſeem to be a Scholiono, to explain them, and as ſuch, to be added to them, foreign, not a Collection of Saints, not an aſſembly of pious men.
Ibid. Of Babylon ſignifying Rome, foreign.See Euſeb. l. 2. c. 14. and Jerom. de Scripter. Eccl. in Marco, and ſo the Church in Babylon, the Chriſtians in that heathen city of Rome.
On the ſecond EPISTLE of PETER.
CHap. I. Note a.foreign. Of the notion of foreign for courage, Adde, So as in thoſe verſes of *In Beller a phon.Euripides,
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Fortitude is very uſefull againſt afflictions, a man may ſhew vertue in his death. For there fortitude, and virtue are all one.
Ibid. Note b. Of the notion of foreign in reference to unnatural luſts] to 2 Cor. 7.2. foreign,foreign. Adde, Agreeable to which is that ſpeech of Heraclitus in his Epiſtle to Hermodorus, foreign, with whom have I accompanied in adulterie, in murther, in drunkenneſs, in corruption, or pollution? I corrupt, I wrong no man of them all. Thus was Socrates accuſed foreign, as a deceiver, a debaucher, corrupter of youth; and this the ſumme of his accuſation, foreign, he wrongs, and corrupts the young men. So in a narration of Hippolytus in *Lanſiac. in biſt. foreign.Palladius, of a Chriſtian Virgin put by the tyrannical Judge into a brothel houſe, the debauch'd young men ſtrait came, foreign, to company with her for corruption, i. e. to commit all filthyneſs with her. And ſo after he that freed her from that houſe, is ſaid foreign to have delivered her from this diſhonourable or vile corruption.
Chap. II. ver. 5.
[The a eighth perſon.]
foreign.Note a. Why the word foreign the eighth, is here prefix'd to the mention of Noah, might be matter of ſome inquirie, were it not ſo ordinarie and proverbial among all writers, Jewiſh as well as Heathens, to expreſs the perſons that were ſaved in the deluge, by this ſtyle, the eight: Hence the very mountain, whereon the Ark reſted is found to be [expreſſed, and called by this ſtyle, Themanim, i. e. foreign, the mountain of the eight. So Georgius Elmacinus Hiſt. Saracen. l. 1. c. 1. Heraclius went thence, foreign, to the town ſo called the town of the eight, from foreign octo, which is there rendred Themaninum, and aſcending to the hill foreign, it ſhould ſure be read, foreign Gordi (ſo thoſe mountains are called promiſcuouſly Cardiei, Cordyei, Cordueni, Gordi, Cordaei, Curdi) he ſaw the place of the Ark, the higheſt of all that region. So *Clim. 4. Par. 6.Geographus Nubienſis, Mons foreign Jemanim (it ſhould be foreign Themanim) idem qui Algode (it ſhould be foreign Algordi, i. e. Gordiaeus) in quo requievit navis illa, Navis Noae, cui pax. The hill Themanim which is alſo called Algordi, on which the Ark reſted, the Ark of Noah— So *l. 4. p. 135.Agathias, foreign, about the Cardyan mountains, at the town called Themanim, i. e. the eight.
Chap. III. Note e.foreign. Of the uſe of the heaven and earth, for the whole compages, to the parallel, Eph. 5.30. Adde. And ſo in other authors, the body and the ſoul are ſet ſeverally, when yet they ſignifie nothing diſtinct, but the whole man together. See A. Gellius, l. 3. ch. 1.
On the firſt EPISTLE general of IOHN.
CHap. II. Note c. After the mention of Carpocrates, Saturnilus, and others, Adde, And accordingly *Bib. Gr. pat… …to. 2. p. 347. A.Hippolytus the Martyr in his book, foreign. interprets the place, [many ſhall ſay I am Chriſt] of Simon Magus and others. foreign, Some roſe and ſaid I am Chriſt, as Simon Magus and the reſt whoſe names it is not ſeaſonable to rehearſe; So Hegeſippus in that eminent paſſage ſet down from him in *l. 4. c. 22.Euſebius, having named the ſeveral hereſies, that were come into the Church in his time, the followers of Simon, Cleobius, Doſitheus, Gorthaeus, Menander, Marcion, Carpocrates, Valentinus, Baſilides and Saturnilus, concludes, foreign, from theſe were the falſe Chriſts, falſe Prophets, falſe Apoſtles, which divided the unity of the Church, with peſtilent doctrines againſt God and his Chriſt.
foreign.Ibid. Of the rendring foreign, Counterchriſt, *La…ſiac Hiſto… c. 3…. p. 949. D.Pſeudochriſt, falſe Chriſt, Adde, So Palladius expreſly uſeth the word. For ſpeaking of the Divel, foreign, transforming himſelf into the ſhape of our Saviour, and ſo adored by Valens, he ſaith, foreign, he fel down and worſhip'd Antichriſt, or this Counterfeit Chriſt, i. e. the Divel in this ſhape of Chriſt.
Chap. III. ver. 2.
[It *Hath not yet been made manifeſt. foreign.doth not yet appear.]
Ibid. Note c. Of the notion of foreign] to the paſſage in Chryſoſtome, Adde, So when Rom. 8.7. 'tis ſaid that the carnal mind cannot be ſubject to God, Theophylact interprets it, foreign it cannot, foreign.whileſt it remains ſuch, foreign, not that the change is impoſſible, and ſo again, v. 8. when it is ſaid, they cannot pleaſe God, foreign, they cannot, whileſt they are ſuch. In the ſame ſenſe, as *In Sto…ae. p. 100.Menander ſaith of the juſt man, foreign, a juſt diſpoſition knowes not how to be unjuſt.
On the ſecond EPISTLE of IOHN.
IN the Note on the Inſcription. Blot out [So of the Biſhops of Aſia, &c.] and read, So of Alexander S. Paul ſaith, he hath greatly withſtood our words, 2 Tim. 4.15. &c. And that is the meaning of foreign— Jude 8. and 2 Pet. 2.10. (as of Alexanders blaſpheming, 1 Tim. 1.20.)