11 9 pitching. it toward the former sea, and half of it the horses, and mules, and camels, and toward the latter sea: and so shall it be in summer and spring. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name One, 10 compassing all the earth, and the wilderness from Gabe unto Remmon south of Jerusalem. And Rama shall remain in its place. From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the gate of the corners, and to the tower of Anameel, as far as the king's winepresses, they shall dwell in the city; and there shall be no more any curse, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely. 12 And this shall be the overthrow with which the Lord will smite all the nations, as many as have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh shall consume away while they are standing upon their feet, and their eyes shall melt out of their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. 13 And there shall be in that day a great + Or, aston- *panic from the Lord upon ishment. them; and they shall lay hold every man of the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall be clasped with the hand of his neighbour. 14 Judas also shall fight in Jerusalem; and God shall gather the strength of all the nations round about, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 15 And this shall be the overthrow of 923 asses, and all the beasts that are in 60 ed them for MALACHIAS. 3 + 1. THE burden of the word of even among you the doors shall be the Lord to Israel by the hand of shut, and one will not kindle the fire his messenger. Lay it, I pray you, to of mine altar for nothing, I have no heart. I have loved you, says the pleasure in you, says the Lord AlLord. And ye said, Wherein hast mighty, and I will not accept a sacrithou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's fice at your hands. "For from the brother? says the Lord: yet I loved rising of the sun even to the going + Rom. 9. 13. Jacob, and hated Esau, down thereof my name has been glori+Lit. appoint- and laid waste his borders, fied among the Gentiles; and in every desolation. and made his heritage as place incense is offered to my name, dwellings of the wilderness? Be- and a pure offering: for my name is cause one will say, Idumea has been great among the Gentiles, says the overthrown, but let us return and Lord Almighty. 12 But ye profane it, rebuild the desolate places; thus says in that ye say, The table of the Lord the Lord Almighty, They shall build, is polluted, and his meats set thereon but I will throw down; and they shall are despised. 13 And ye said, These be called The borders of wickedness, services are troublesome: therefore I and, The people against whom the have utterly rejected them + Gr. puffed Lord has set himself for ever. 5 And with scorn, says the Lord at them. your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Almighty: and ye brought in torn The Lord has been magnified upon the victims, and lame, and sick: if then + Gr. above. borders of Israel. A son ho- ye should bring an offering, shall I nours his father, and a servant his mas- accept them at your hands? says the ter: if then I am a father, where is mine Lord Almighty. 14 And cursed is the honour? and if I am a master, where man who had the power, and possessed is my fear? says the Lord Almighty. a male in his flock, and whose vow is Ye the priests are they that despise upon him, and who sacrifices a corrupt my name: yet ye said, Wherein have thing to the Lord: for I am a great we despised thy name? In that ye King, says the Lord Almighty, and bring to mine altar polluted bread; my name is glorious among the nations. and ye said, Wherein have ye polluted it? In that ye say, The table of the 2. And now, O priests, this comLord is polluted, and that which was mandment is to you. If ye will not set thereon ye have despised. For if hearken, and if ye will not lay it to ye bring a blind victim for sacrifices, heart, to give glory to my name, says is it not evil? and if ye bring the lame the Lord Almighty, then I will send or the sick, is it not evil? offer it now forth the curse upon you, and I will to thy ruler, and see if he will receive bring a curse upon your blessing: yea, thee, if he will accept thy person, says I will curse it, and I will scatter your ↑ Lit. propiti- the Lord Almighty. And blessing, and it shall not exist among now entreat the face of you, because ye lay not this to heart. your God, and make supplication to Behold, I turn my back + Gr. separate him. These things have been done upon you, and I will scat- from you. by your hands: shall I accept you? ter dung upon your faces, the dung of says the Lord Almighty. 10 Because your feasts, and I will carry you away ate. 9 2 the shoulder or, charge to fear me, &c. 8.20. + Gr. shall. 5 + 4 + 7 8 at the same time. And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with the sons of Levi, says the Lord Almighty. My covenant of life and peace was with him, and I gave it Or, power, him that he might reverently fear me, and that he might + See 2 Cor. be awe-struck at my name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked before me directing his way in peace, and he turned many from unrighteousness. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty. But ye have turned aside from the way, and caused many to fail in following the law: ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord Almighty. 9 And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have + Gr. accepted *been partial in the law. 10 Have ye not all one father? Did not one God create you? why have ye forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers? "Juda has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Juda has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which he delighted in, and has gone after other gods. 12 The Lord will utterly destroy the man that does these things, until he be even cast down from out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and from among them that offer sacrifice to the Lord Almighty. 13 And these things which I hated, ye did: ye covered with tears the altar of the Lord, and with weeping and groaning because of troubles: is it meet for me to have respect to your sacrifice, or to receive anything from your hands as welcome? 14 Yet ye said, Wherefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast forsaken, persons. + Gr. οὐ καλὸν ἐποίησε, pro bly cor rupted from Alex. reading, bably a corruption of οὐκ ἄλλος the and that pro Heb. i. e. N and yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant. + 15 And did he not do well? and there was the residue of his spirit. But ye said, What does God seek but a seed? But take ye heed to your spirits, and forsake not the wife of thy youth. 16 But if thou for TN shouldest hate thy wife and put her away, says the Lord God of Israel, then ungodliness shall cover thy thoughts, says the Lord Almighty: therefore take ye heed to your spirit, and forsake them not, 17 ye that have provoked God with your words. But ye said, Wherein have we provoked him? In that ye say, Every ye say, Every one that does evil is a pleasing object in the sight of the Lord, and he takes pleasure in such; and where is the Where, &c. God of justice? + + + + Or, and, 3. Behold, I send forth my messenger, and he shall survey + Mat. 11. 10. the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come into his temple, even the angel of the covenant, whom ye take pleasure in: behold, he is coming, says the Lord Almighty. And who will abide the day of his coming? or who or, wait for. will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers. Gr. them 3 He shall sit to melt and that wash. purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as + Gr. melting gold and silver, and they and purging. shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness. And the sacrifice of Juda and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, according to the former days, and according to the former years. 5And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the + Gr. beat widow, and 'afflict orphans, with the fist. and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, says the Lord Almighty. For I am the Lord your God, and I am not changed: but ye, the sons of Jacob, have not refrained from the iniquities of your fathers: ye have perverted my statutes, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty. But ye said, 8 Wherein shall we return? Will a man insult God? for ye insult me. But ye say, wherein have we insulted thee? In that the tithes and firstfruits are with you still. 9 And ye do surely look off from me, and ye insult me. 10 The year is completed, and ye have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, says the Lord Almighty, see if I will not open to you Or, windows, the torrents of heaven, and there rendered pour out my blessing upon 'flood-gates.' you, until ye are satisfied. charge for you And I will appoint food τὴν βρῶσιν. for you, and I will not destroy the fruit of your land; and your vine in the field shall not fail, says the Lord Almighty. 12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a desirable land, says the Lord Almighty. 13 Ye have spoken grievous words against me, says the Lord. Yet ye said, Wherein have we spoken against thee? 14 Ye said, He that + Gr. is vain. serves God labours in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept his ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty? 15 And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are see Gen. 7. 11, + Or, give a to be fed. Alex. 11 + 926 + built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered. 16 Thus spoke they that feared the Lord, every one to his neighbour: and the Lord gave heed, and hearkened, and he wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced his name. 17And they shall be mine, says + Gr. for me. the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him. 18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves him not. 4. For, behold, a day comes burning as an oven, and it shall consume them; and all the aliens, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, says the Lord Almighty, and there shall not be left of them root or branch. 2 But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing shall be in his wings: and ye shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds. 3And ye shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, says the Lord Almighty. And, behold, I will send to you Elias the Thesbite, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes; 6 who shall turn again the heart of the father + Luke 1. 17. to the son, and the heart of a man to his neighbour, lest I come and smite the earth grievously. Remember the law of my servant Moses, accordingly as I charged him with it in Choreb for all Israel, even the commandments and ordinances. 5 APPENDIX. JOB 25. 1.-In the New Testament | after which the word almost always used παροιμία is almost always translated pro- is αλλόφυλοι. In this there was probably verb, but in John 10. 6, it is rendered some accommodation of sound to sense. parable, which seems to be the sense intended here. Probably προοίμιον is a mistake of the transcriber. ISAIAH 21. 16.-Giants. רְפָאִים .Heb For some interesting remarks on this word, see the conclusion of Govett's work on the book of the prophet Isaiah. JoB 39. 13.—τερπομένων. The LXX. seem to have caught at the meaning of 127 jubilavit, from which comes the word JEZEKIEL 16. 44.-The most obvious here used struthiones. νεέλασσα | meaning of παραβολή seems to be comHebrew, part. niph. fem. of Dyparison. The word is so translated, Mark lætatus est. doída, ciconia veoσa 4. 30; in Heb. 9. 9. and 11. 19. it is si penna, (qy. item struthiocamelus). "The peacock's wing is proudly spread. Is the ostrich also, if it conceive, like the stork? For," &c. The stork according to tradition being the pious bird, the ostrich the contrary.-C. Pridham. rendered figure; in Luke 4. 23. proverb, which is the word employed by the English translators in this passage of Ezekiel. In the other passages of the New Testament, amounting to upwards of forty, it is uniformly rendered parable. See note on Job 25. 1. at the top of the first page of the Appendix. For the more classical use of the word, see Aristotle's Rhetoric, book 3. EXODUS 28. 23-28, are found neither in the Vatican or Alexandrine copies, but appear in the Complutensian text as follows: PSALM 41. (42) 4.-There are several difficulties connected with this passage. In the first place it seems evident that the LXX. read 2, and the English translators, or something similar. The Hebrew Text (to which no is appended) thus far favours the LXX.; who, however, appear to have read D as a part of 7, and made an adjective 23 And thou shalt make upon the of it. Again, róm has nothing imme-oracle two golden rings, and thou shalt diately answering it in the Hebrew, and may be accounted for on the principle so often referred to of double translation. PROVERBS 8. 5.-It is frequently the case in Proverbs that akakos is used in a bad sense, and navоûpуos in a good one. For akakos see chap. 1. 4, 22; 8.5; 14. 15; 21. 11. For пavouрyos, 12.16; 13.1, 16; 14. 8, 15, 18; 15. 5; 21. 11; 22. 3; 27. 12; 28.2. ISAIAH 2. 6.-Philistines. The LXX. generally render D' by Pudorieip or Pudorin till about the middle of Judges, put the two golden rings on both the upper corners of the oracle. 24 And thou shalt put the fringes and the chains of gold on the two rings on both the sides of the oracle. 25 And thou shalt put two sides of the two fringes on the two hems, and thou shalt put the shoulders of the ephod opposite in front. 26 And thou shalt make two golden rings and shalt put them on the two edges of the oracle on the top from the top of the back of the ephod within. 27 And thou shalt make two golden rings, and shalt put them on both the shoulders of the ephod beneath it in front, to meet the coupling above of the |