on the Englifh Alphabet. 189 
for the Englifh SH.* which, in fome Alphabets, 
is marked by one independent charadéter; as yj, in 
the Hebrew, and in the Ruffian, by ILI, a letter 
_ fomething confimilar.f Thus, in like manner, 
every 
* See the note upon the latter G, 
“ + Beza fays “that % altogether anfwers to the gf 
*¢ with a dexter point, and the French CH (or Englith 
‘‘ SH) tothat with a finifter point jsp, and it is his opinion 
** that the former was improperly called jhin, and that the 
* latter is falfely confounded with p. For to the Ephrai- 
“ mites, he obferves, (as related in the twelfth chapter 
“ of the book of Judges) it happened, unfortunately, 
‘ that they knew neither of the founds of chin (i. e. as he 
« thinks, x) but, toa man, pronounced it as D.”” Where- 
as, by a true pronunciation, they might have paffed unfuf- 
pected of being enemies, 
Now by the way, the paflage, to which he alludes, is 
not altogether fo clearly expreiled in the Septuagint tranf- 
lation, as it admits of being. For the very word fhould 
be inferted, (with an explanation 2 ) which was propofed 
to the Ephrathites, as a teft, whereby they might be 
diftinguifhed from the Gileadites, but, as they are not 
fo inferted, it is a proof, among many others, that the 
Greeks had no letter of the found of yy, and were, there- 
fore, ob!“jed to leave the fenfe a little obfcured. The 
words are briefly compared as follows: And the Gileadites 
took the paffages of Jordan before the Ephrathites: and it 
was fo, that when the Ephrathites which were efcaped, faid, each, 
Let me go over, 7 WS SYQONI WII WIS 9 DN} 
Pbap agin nbay sips boy: NO oon 
12 WT? Pr NI 
The 
n 
. 
g. AS in Matt. chap.*i»23. and elfewhere, 
