Dec. 14. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



483 



Simonis in Onom. dictum putat Ino ?3,T \N0 ^ 

 mansio habitationis (hal)ltatio tectissima) ; Gesenius 

 cui nemo concubuit, Coll. ^^f. Gen. xxx. 20. Sed 

 satius," &c. 



Admitting that Hasdrubiil is, in fact ?2 nTy, 

 Sel (was) hin helper, we caunot possibly connect 

 !?3rN ^yit]l it. 2- 



L Rectory, Somerset. 



Jezebel. — Your correspondent W. G. H. believes 

 this word to be derivable from Baal. That tlie 



Phoenician word bW (Lord) makes a component 

 part of many Syrian names is well known : but I 

 do not think the contracted form ?3, which was 

 used by the Babylonians, is ever found in any 

 Syrian names. If we suppose the name ?5r^ to 



be derived from 72 or 7^3, we must find a mean- 

 ing for the previous letters. Gesenius derives the 

 name from 'i<, the negative particle, and ?2T, and 

 gives it the sense of "innuba," i.e. "pure," com- 

 paring it, as a female name, with tiie Christian 

 Agnes. There is but one passage, however, in 

 Scripture which supports this secondary sense of 



?3T properly, "to be round," or, "to make round," 



and then " to dwell ; " from whence >13t , " a 



dwelling or habitation :" also I'l^-I^T, "dwellings," 

 the name which Leah gives to her sixth son, be- 

 cause she hopes that thenceforward her husband 



Vl??n, "will dwell with me." (Gen. xxx. 20.) 

 Gesenius considers this equivalent with " cohabit ;" 

 and from this single passage draws the sense 



which he assigns to ?3T''N This seems rather far- 

 fetched. I am, however, stDl inclined to give the 



sense of " pure, unpolluted," to ''?r^, but on dif- 

 ferent grounds. 



?3T has another sense, KSirpos, particularly of 

 camels, from the round form ; and the word was 

 common, ia the later Hebrew, in that sense. 



Hence the evil spirit is called ?'13T"?y3, a cou- 



temptuous name, instead of 2)2T?V2=.he€K^(fi8'K 

 instead of BceA-J-f/Sa'/S (Matt. xii. 24.). 



The negative of this word 73.t'''^ miglit, without 

 any great forcing of the literal sense, imi)ly "the 

 undefiled," AjuiViutos ; and this conjecture is sup- 

 ported by coinjjaring 2 Kings, ix. 37. with tlie same 

 verse in tlic Tui-guni of Jonathan. They are as 

 follows : (Ileb.) : 



nnb'n ■-ja-^y lona ^ar^ n.^ao n*ni 



In the Turijnm thus: 



It is quite clear that the Targumists intended 

 here a strong allusion to the original meaning of 

 Jezebel's name ; viz. that she who was named 

 " the undefiled " should become as " defilement." 

 I am not sure whether a disquisition of this kind 

 may be considered irrelevant to your work ; but as 

 the idea seems not an improbable one to some 

 whose judgment I value, I ventiu-e to send it. 



E. C. II. 



SOCINIAN BOAST. 



(Vohii., p. 375.) 



One of your correspondents, referring to the 

 lines lately quoted by Dr. Pusey — 



" Tota jacet Babylon ; destruxit teeta Lutherus, 

 Calvinus muros, sed fuiidaraenta Socinus." 

 inquires "by what Socinian writer" are these two 

 hexameter verses used ? 



In reply, I beg to remark that by " Socinian" is, 

 I suppose, meant "Unitarian," for even the im- 

 mediate converts of Socinus refused to be called 

 Socinians, alleging that their belief was founded 

 on the teaching of Jesus Christ ; and modern 

 Unitarians, disowning all human authority in re- 

 ligious matters, cannot take to themselves the 

 name of Socinus. 



The distich, however, appears to have been in 

 use among the Polish Unitarians shortly after the 

 death of Faustus Socinus, as respectfully expressive 

 of the exact eflect wiiich they conceived that he 

 had produced in the religious world. Mr. "Wallace, 

 in his Antitrinitarian Biographi/, vol. iii. p. 323., 

 states that it is " the epitaph said to have been in- 

 scribed on the tomb of Faustus Socinus." Mr. 

 Wallace's authority for this assertion I have not 

 been able to discover. Bock (Hist. Antitrinita- 

 rionan, vol. iii. p. 725.), whom IMr. Wallace gene- 

 rally follows, observes that the adherents of Faustus 

 Socinus were accustomed to use these lines " re- 

 specting his decease," (qui de ejus obitu canere 

 solitl sunt). This would seem to imply that the 

 linos were composed not long after the death of 

 Faustus Socinus. Probably they formed originally 

 a part of a poem written as a eidogy on him by 

 some minister of the Unitarian church. The case 

 would not be with(mt a parallel. 



Three versions of the distich arc before me ; that 

 cited by Dr. Pusey, and the two which follow: — 



" Alta ruit ]?abylon ; destruxit tccta Lutherus, 

 JMuros Calvinus, sed f'undamcnta Socinus." 



Fock, Socinianisinus, vol. i. p. 180. 



" Tota ruct Babylon ; destruxit tocta Lutherus, 

 INIuros Calvinus, sed fundanienta Socinus." 



Bock, ut supra. 



Which is the original ? Bock's reading has the 

 preference in my mind, because he is known to 

 have founded his history on the results of his own 

 personal investigations among the manuscripts as 



