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Aioi vvKTo; iyKoSivl'jv. AnacREOV. 



" Sleeping through the night," — "time pafled in fleeping, — the 

 " night." 



2. After. 



A/a hue.]! riyApav ct'TroyJosirsg to TT^'coroti uda^, (DiOSCOR.), " pouring 

 " ofF the firfl water after two days," — " pouring ofF the water, 

 " — interval of time pajfed before pouring it off, — or pafled in its 

 " previous ftate, — two days." For it is to be obferved, that 

 when im is thus made to denote after, it always implies, that the 

 ftate of the tranfadion then exifting, is the refult of the pre- 

 ceding adlion, with which Ita, is joined. Am r^luv i//.eg4»i» riXOi, 

 " after three days he came," — " interval pafled in coming, — 

 " three days," — intimating that three days were fpent in travel- 

 ling ; whereas, had i^ira been ufed for after, no fuch previous 

 connedlion would have been implied ; the three days might 

 have been occupied with an aflion bearing no relation to his 

 coming. 



By afecond remove from the primitive meaning of the woi-d, 

 S';a came alfo to be applied to exprefs causation in all its forms. 

 In this mode of application, it appears to have been extenflvely 

 employed to mark, indifferently, the efficient, — the injirumental, 

 — xhcfortnal, — the material, — the procuring, and the/««/ caufe. 

 The idea, in all of them, was evidently taken from the ufe of lia, 

 to exprefs an interval paflTed, an intervening objedl penetrated, or 

 an intermediate fpace croflTed. A caufe, of whatever kind, na- 

 turally prefented itfelf to the mind as a paflTage or medium be- 

 tween the bare conception or defign of an adtion and its entire 

 completion. An example of each fpecies of caufe, will fliow, in 

 this vife of ^(«, the conftant reference to its radical meaning. 



The efficient. A;' ov i>.a,SoiA.tv x^giv, {Rom. i. 5.), " through 

 " whom we received grace," — " we received grace, — medium of 

 " its conveyance to us, — him." 



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