TOGETHER WITH AN EXPLANATION OF VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES IN BY THE REV. RICHARD A. F. BARRETT, M.A., FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, And the flower thereof falleth away; But the word of the LORD endureth for ever.-1 PETER i. 24, 25. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. MDCCCXLVII. Bequeat of Prof. J. H. Thaver March 20. 1902. (777) ALEXANDER MACINTOSH, PRINTER, GREAT NEW-STREET, LONDON. Houb.7 '27, et Rhodanim. Legitur Gen. x. 4 ; Dm, et Dodanim, et similiter hoc loco Syrus, nec non Codex Orat. 53. Cæteri Codices D, per litteram Ress, ut Sam. Codex, suprà-dicto Genesis loco. Utrum præstet incertum. Sed anteferimus Dodanim ne discordia sit cum scriptione, quæ in Genesi. et Ver. 11-12. ,Ludim, לודים Masora : לודיים 11-.Houb uno scriptum, et ita duo Codices Orat. Ita etiam Gen. x. 13. Phetrusim: sic Syrus et plerique; sic etiam plenè. Ver. 17. , פתרוסים Codices duo plene : פתרסים 12 , כסלוחים posteà סגול בסייף ξάδ, καὶ Λούδ, καὶ ̓Αράμ. Καὶ υἱοὶ ̓Αράμ and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and And Aram, and Uz, and Hul, &c. 8 1, Phut. Codex Orat. 53, Pool. The sons of Shem; either the Phut. In cæteris Codicibus, quia super-grandsons, who are called name of sons is so taken here as to include stitio scribarum non audebat addere littesons, Gen. xxix. 5, rulam, quam deesse viderent, Ver. 10. circulum of Aram, are understood and inserted before 2 Sam. xix. 24; or, these words, the children Uz, out of Gen. x. 23, where they are expressed. . מצרים et פוט posuerunt inter γῆς. Bp. Patrick.-Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.] These were not the sons of οὗτος ἤρξατο εἶναι γίγας κυνηγὸς ἐπὶ τῆς Shem, but his grandsons by Aram his Au. Ver.-10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth. He began, &c. Ged. The first potentate upon earth. Dathe.-10 Cush genuit Nimrodum, qui primus fuit potentia insignis. VOL. III. As youngest son: as appears from Gen. x. 22. But nothing is more usual in Scripture, than to call grandsons by the name of sons. Laban is called the son of Nahor, Genesis xxix. 5, being his grandchild by Bethel, And Mephibosheth is called the son of Saul, 2 Sam. xix. 24, because he was descended B |