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Gesenius. 



In my brief remarks upon the word coreth, in the Invocation, I purposely 

 abstained from enlarging upon the next word, upon which I had supposed inter- 

 preters were agreed. With respect to this supposed agreement of interpretation, 

 I have since found that I was mistaken, and that Gesenius (whose recent work 

 upon the Phoenician language and remains was, through the kindness of the 

 learned librarian of our University, put into my hands after my own essay had' 

 gone to press) renders this part of the passage differently. The word which I 

 would protect, being one of the very few in the reading and interpretation of 

 which I concur with Bochart, but which Gesenius, following Bellerman, discards, 

 is the Punic and Hebrew equivalent of tlie tutelary word, colunt, of Plautus, 

 used by Hanno in the same tutelary reference, as in Virgil's "posthabita coluisse 

 Samo" respecting Juno's guardianship of Hanno's own city, — the Punic word 

 ysmacun, root, '\oQ, tueor. In defence of the reading ysmacun, and the Plau- 

 tine version of it, colunt, I would submit the following considerations. 



The notions and terms of tutelary religion are not to be deemed foreign from 

 the religious notions and phraseology of the Hebi'cws. By that covenant which 

 was the foundation of their peculiar theology, God was pleased to become, by 

 federal engagements, their God, and they became his people ; he graciously 

 pledging himself to be their patron and tutelary Deity ; they being pledged to 

 be his devoted and client followers. Accordingly of Jehovah, the Elohim of 

 Israel, that dwelleth at Jerusalem, the holy city, it is said, they [who] " call 

 themselves of the holy city, stay themselves on the God of Israel," as their tute- 

 lary Divinity : that being, as the Hebraist knows, the force of the word "j)OD 

 here used.* In the same manner we find, in the third Psalm, David, in his cha- 

 racter as king of the state and people of Israel, expressing himself with thankful 

 confidence, " I laid me down and slept, I awaked, for Jehovah sustained me." 

 In both passages, the term used being the same with that used in the Punic 

 by Hanno in the invocation, the tutelary word "^nD-f 



or d~in, " enclo.ied place," in reference to the opening of it by the improving heir. See also the 

 remarks on dibur in the seventh Une. 



* Isaiah, xlviii. 2. 



f Yiamaceni in the Psalm, is translated sustental in the present tense in Junius and TremsUius, 



