The Christian Synagogue, Book 1 · Chapter 2
CHAP. II. Of the first Helpe.
foreign, or double reading of a Scripture.
TO marke the line reading, and the Marginall Canon.reading, helpes much for the vnderstanding of the Text in the Hebrew and Greeke.
This Marginall reading is set downe Illust.in the great Mazora Bible in the Margent and the Text: and ioyning both together, is called a double reading.
Where the holy Ghost hath ioyned both the readings, Canon.these we are to follow.
There is a Marginall reading in the Prophet, Esa. 51. 14. Confir.written in two severall words, but having the signification Esa. 51. 14.of any of them, foreign Omnimoda apertio, 1. Example.Pekahhkoahh.(to open the prison) or the eyes of the blind.
For this is meant also of those that are blind, as those that are in prison.
These two readings our Lord ioynes together, Luke 4. 18. Thou hast sent me foreign to restore sight to Pekahhkoahh.the blind, and to open the prison to the prisoner. If I were reading the 51. of Esay, and first verse, I might make this line reading: To giuegive sight to the blind, as well as to open the prison to the prisoner.
Bennaija the sonne of Iehoijdah was a foreign liuely man: but Hhai.2 Sam 23. 20.the marginall reading hath it (foreign a strong man.) This Hh…ijl.marginall reading, 1 Chron. 11. 22. is made line reading; therefore we may ioyne them both safely in the Text, He was a liuely strong man.
And Iohanan was the foreign cheefe of the Captaines; 1 Chron. 11. 1….Hashshalishim.the marginall reading, Hee was one of the foreign three: which marginall reading, 2 Sam. Hashshlishim23 is made line reading, therefore we may ioyne them together, He was one of the three chiefe Captaines.
Where the holy Ghost makes that line reading in Canon.the New Testament, which is marginall reading in the Old Testament; we may safely ioyne them both in the Text.
He giues grace to the foreign poore: but 1 Peter 5. He ānajim.Prov. 3. 24.followes the marginall reading, Hee giues grace to the 1. Examp.foreign humble; therefore wee may safely ioyne them ānajim.both in the Text; He giues grace to the poore humble.
Thou wilt not suffer thy foreign holy ones: In the Hhas…cha.Psal. 16. 10.marginall there is a signe of the plurall number, shewing that there is a letter redundant. Peter Acts 2. approues this marginall reading, reading it in the singular number, Thou wilt not suffer thy foreign holy one to see corruption.Hhasiahcha.
The marginall readings of the Mazorites we may vse Canon.them for illustration, (where they are not approved by the holy Ghost) although we may not make them line reading. If they impare not the credit of the Scripture, or is contrary to it.
In their afflictions they were foreign (not) afflicted; the Lo.Esay 63. 9.1. Example.marginall reading may serue for illustration; In all their afflictions foreign (he) was afflicted, to wit; Christ bearing Lo.our sinnes.
Iosaphat had foreign ten Ships which went to Ophyr: the āsar.1 Kings 22. 48.marginall reading hath it, Iosaphat foreign made shippes āsah.which went to Ophyr. Here the one cleareth the other, he made shippes, and how many shippes he made.
Our hands hauehave not sudit foreign shedde. (In the singular Sh…phehub.Deut. 21. 7.number) the marginall reading hath it foreign Sh…ph…hu.fuderunt in the Plurall number: to signifie, that every one in particular should purge himselfe, and all of them should protest yt they had not shed that innocent blood.
But the Mazorites marginall reading seemes to be Obiect. 1 contrary to the Text; therefore wee may not vse it for illustration.
Tender and young was I foreign before my mother: but Liphne.Prov. 4. 3the marginall reading hath it, Tender and young was I foreign before the sonnes of my mother: Here the marginall L…bne.reading seemes to be contrary to the Text: for Salomons mother had no sonnes but Salomon, and the child who was begotten in adultery, who died so soone as he was borne.
Salomons mother had moe sonnes; wherefore the Answ. marginall reading may well stand for illustration, (Tender and young was I before my mother) and (tender and … Chron. 3.young was (before the sonnes of my mother) that is of them all best beloved.
But the Text sayes, Vnicus eram matris meae, I was my Obiect. mothers onelyonly sonne: then it may seeme she had no moe sonnes but Salomon?
Iunius translates it, vnicus id est vnice dilectus, he was Answ. his mothers best beloved of all his brethren.
The marginall reading seemes to be contrary to the Obiect. 2 Text; therefore it cannot be vsed for illustration of the Text: Abi, dic foreign non vivendo vives, quia ostendit mihi Lo.2 Kin 8. 10.Iehovah, cum cer to moriturum: Goe and say vntounto him, thou shalt not recover: for the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
The marginall reading hath it thus; Goe say vntounto him, thou shalt recover, although the Lord hath shewed to me he shall surely die. Abi, dic foreign ei vivendo vives quamvis Dominus Lo.ostendit mihi eum moritarum.
This marginall reading is not contrary to the Text, Answ. but serues for illustration; ab dic ei (sub audi) non vivendo vives: Goe and tell him (to wit) he shall not liue, because the Lord told me that he shall certainely die.
But the marginall reading seemes to be the right reading Obiect. here, ioyning emor with lo, by Mackaph, dic ei, and then a Comma.
Mackaph is not a syntactick accent, but Euphonicke; Answ. therefore xVide grammat Iu… de accentibus.Iunius in his last translation, followes the line reading (dic non) and not the marginall reading dic ei, as he did in his first translation.
How shall I know, Psal. 22. 15. that this (they foreign Caari.Quaest.Digged my hands and my feete) is the right line reading, and not this, as foreign a Lyon.Caari.
First by the Grammaticall helps; for Caari with Cametz Answ. 1 signifieth (to digge) but with Patach (as a Lyon) it is here with Cametz, therefore it should be read they digged, and …od is put for Vau. 2. The circumstance of the Text will lead vsus to reade, (they digged) for every member of the Text hath a proper word ioyned with it; Dogges compassed me about; the …mpany of the wicked invironed Psal. 22.me: then the last member should not want the owne proper verbe, they digged. 3. yIohannes Isaac Leuita.Iohannes Isaac Leuita testifies, that he saw a Psalter, wherein it was plainely written, Caaru, and not Caari. 4. zAquila.Aquila, (who was a great enemy to Christ) followed Caaru, they digged, foreign, turpiter foedarunt manus meas id est cruentarunt, They filthily defiled my hands, that is, with blood. And the aTranslar. 70. in Psalmos.seventy foreign, foderunt, digged: & the translation which the Ethiopians and Indians vse in the Chaldie tongue, hath Caaru foderunt, digged, as bPetrus Galat de trinitate.Petrus Galatinus testifies.
No translator may put the marginall reading in the Canon.Text, vnlesse it be approved by the holy Ghost.
We cannot translate, They digged Lyon-like my hands Psal. 22. 15.1. Example.and my feete.
The line reading hath it (in his sinnes) the marginall 1 King. 16. 26.in his sinne: we must not put both in the Text here, in singulis peccatis eius, for eueryevery one of his sinnes: but vse it for illustration onelyonly.
Keepe thy foote, in the marginall, keepe thy feete: Wee Ecclesiastes 4. ….must not translate it so, Keepe both thy feete.
Where the Mazorites notes, seemes to impaire the Canon. II.credit of the Text, there we are not to follow them.
The Mazorites of Tyberias will seeme to be more modest Illust.then the Text, and to put the holy Ghost to schoole as it were, to teach him to speake.
They shall drinke their owne pisse: but in the marginall, 2 Kings 18. 27.they will put it in more modest termes; They shall drinke 1. Example.the water of their owne feete: but, to the cleane, all things are cleane.…. 1. 11. 1 King… 18.
Agabb of Doues dung: but for modestie they set in the margent, That which comes out of the holes of the Doues. They say this phrase, Indiget foraminibus suis, he had need to make water.
They will not say, S…agitabit eam, He shall know her, Deut. 28.as the Text hath it: but in the margent, He shall lye with her.
For the Piles or the Haemercids, they put in the margent … Sam 5. 6.tehorim, Holes; and they point the first word foreign Baāpholim.Mariscae Haemeroids, with the points of foreign high Batehborim.holes, to signifie, that the last must be read for the first. Scheva is never made a gutturall letter. So they read Iehovah with the points of adonai or elohim.
As they would shew themselues forsooth more modest II.then Pen-men of the holy Ghost: so they would shew themselues more clement then the holy Ghost.
There are foure Bookes in the Old Testament, which ends with threatnings, but the penult verses of these bookes are more milde; therefore they hauehave caused to Print them over againe, and adde to every one of these Bookes the penult verse after the last. The note of the foure Bookes is set downe by Sigla, or their abbreviation foreignin the end of Ecclesiastes; Iod for Esaias; Tau for Terignatzar, The twelue small Prophets, of which Malachy is the last; Coph for the Lamentations; and Coph for Coheleth, Ecclesiastes.
Because the last verse in Esay is terrible, (and their fire shall not be quenched) they hauehave caused to print over againe the penult verse: And it shall come to passe, that from month to month, and from Sabboth to Sabboth, that all flesh shall come and bow before me: so they hauehave dealt with the other three bookes, adding the penult verse to every one of them.
As they will shew themselues more clement then the III.holy Ghost; so they will take vponupon them to censure places which they thinke defectiue in the Text.
This is their note in the margent, Gen. 4 that there are Gen. 4. 8.28. verses in the midst of this verse wanting; a large conference of Cain with Abel, which is set downe in the Chaldie Paraphrast. But (& dixit) he spake, signifieth not onelyonly to hold a long conference, but also to speake friendly with one, and to converse with him.
These are the censures of the Iewes of Tyberias, but they are not found in the great and first Mazora.
Where the double reading of the Mazorites is contrary Canon. IIII.to the Text, it should be altogether reiected.
When *F. suna de repub. Iu…. Scal. in Eus.Onias the fourth was cast out by Antiochus Esa. 19. 17.the great, from the Priest-hood of Ierusalem, he fled to Egypt, and there built a Temple in Heliopolis, alledging Esayes warrant for him; reading the Text thus: (And one of them shall be the Citie of foreign Cheres the sun: Hhe…es.for foreign Heres, destruction; the Chaldie Paraphrast H…s.ioynes them both together, The Citie of the S…nne shall he destroyed. This double reading is contrary to the Text, for there might not be any Temple built for the worship of God, but at Ierusalem. Confer Deut. 5. with the 4. of Iohn.