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metrical arrangement, we think of little 
or no importance,) we must examine 
how far he has improved the version of 
the bishop of London. To select every 
passage in which an important alteration 
is made, would needlessly occupy ovr 
pages; all that is necessary, and all 
that will be required, is the yuotation 
of a few of the more striking examples. 
Ch. i. 17. Lowth, following Bochart, 
and not to his own satisfaction, translated 
Vi MWR cursed that which is cor- 
rupted.’ Stock, justified at least by all 
the versions, renders these words, ‘* He/p 
forward the aggrieved.” ‘ 
iv. 5. “ Yea, over all shall the glory 
be a covering,” Lowth.—“ A burning 
that shall overshadow all glory,’’ Stack. 
i.e. 2 conflagration, whose splendour 
shall eclipse all glory. The great ob- 
jection to Lowth’s rendering is the vio- 
lation of grammar, a masculine noun 
being made the nominative to a femi- 
nine verb. 
vi. 13. HI VVY MS Ny 
“ya? Ama nay 
** And though there bea tenth remaining 
in it, 
Even this shall undergo a repeated destruc- 
tion.” Lowti. 
“© But vet in it shall be left a tenth, 
And it shall recover and serve for pasture.” 
Two versions cannot more widely dif- 
fer than these. Dr. Stock ably and 
successiully defends that which he has 
adopted. 
x. 19. 
* And T have brought down those that 
were strongly seated.” Lowth. 
«* And I have let fall the curtain of the 
inhabitants.’ Stock. 
‘© The metaphor,” he observes in a note, 
“here employed, appears to me to have 
escaped the commentators, by their not 
knowing the meaning of the word “S35 
which is well explained by Parkhurst to 
denote a mosquito net or curtain, used in hot 
countries by people of the better sort, to 
guard them at night from the noise and 
stings of those very troublesome insects, the 
gnats. Itis a thin curtain of gauze or goat's 
hair, let down from the tester of the bed, 
enclosing it on every side, and thereby 
completely concealing the person in bed from 
view. ‘Yo let fall the curtain of the inha- 
bitants, therefore, is to hide them from 
view, to put tiem out of sight, by destroy- 
ing them.”’ 
Ch. xi. 14. What in Lowth’s version 
is rendered, : ; 
THEOLOGY, AND. ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. 4) 
«© But they shall invade the borders of the | ; 
Philistines westward 5” i a 
Dre.Stock has translated, 
«‘ But they shall fy on the shouldets of | 
the Philistines westward.” 
«They shall extend their conquests from ~ 
the west to the east; and this they shall 7] 
effect by the help of such as were formerly 
their bitterest enemies; the Philistines shall. 
aid them with shipping, (which is what is 
here meant by flying on the shoulders of the 
Philistines) ; Edom, &c.” 
Ch. xviii. 1. 
‘* Ho! to the land of the winged cymbal.” 
Lowth. 
** Ho! to the land shadowed with sails.” 
Stock. 
Rosenmuller interprets it, “ the land 
of the double shadow.” Dr. Stock well 
observes, “ the ancient versions agree in § 
speaking of sails inthis place, of which © 
wings C"DID are an apt representation; — 
and the rest of the description points to 
nautical business.” 
Ch. xxxvii. 15. 
«© Of Honah and of Ivah.” 
Upon this passage, Dr. Stock has 
added at the end of his work a note, ~ 
which we recommend to the attention of © 
our readers, : : 
“(In thus translating the words PRYy  — 
YIN 1 have been misled by the crowd of ~ 
former interpreters, who concur ia repre- — 
senting them as proper names, On reflection 
IT am persuaded they are not so, but should 
be rendered, removed and overturned ; that 
is@ cach of those several princes, who op- 
posed the Assyrian monarch, is now a va- — 
gabond and reduced to ruin: a forcible con- 
clusion of the argument addressed to Heze- — 
kiah. If Lam right in this interpretation, 
I owe the discovery to a perusal of Dr. | 
Hutter’s exeellent translation of the New — 
Testament into Hebrew, a work which I 
cannotsufiiciently commend, as a great help 
to scholars desirous of becoming well versed — 
in Hebrew phraseology,” &c. 
This translation has been republished 
in England, to the conclusion of the 
Acts, by the Rev. R. Caddick, of Christ © 
Church, Oxford. | 
Ch. liii. 3. ; 
«© Despised, nor accounted in the number — 
of men.” Lowth. 
«© He is despised and abject above all men ; 
* ES9WN belongs here to both the ex 
ceding words, despised and abject, an is) 
used in Hebrew and Arabic as a mark of 
the superlative degree: aljectus virorum, i. e. 
homo abjectissimus.” Stock.” 
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