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lowing words for the other: that is to fay 
moni) for conv the former word fignifying, 
according to their tongues; but the latter word, 
according to their nAmEs.* 
It may be oppofed to this, however, in order 
not to admit rafhly any ill founded or premature 
opinion,’ that the paffage, as it is, notwithftanding 
its apparent priority, through fo many ages and 
tranflations, ought, perhaps, to be received rather 
as an anticipated regifter of perforis and events im- 
mediately fucceeding the general confufion of 
fpeech, than as relating to time antecedent. 
So 
* I cannot help expreffing, in this place, an earneft 
wifh, that it may become as fafhionable, with all profeffors 
of the benign principles of Chriftianity, to read the ancient 
volume of Sacred Hiftory in the original words, as it is 
to read, in their refpettive languages, the genealogies of 
Hefiod, or the philofophy of Lucretius. And it would 
certainly be much lefs difficult to do fo, 
Numerous are the guides thereto, printed in Latin, 
And, with the laudable view of more generally promoting 
fuch knowledge, a few learned men have at different times 
deferved the thanks of their country, for publifhing alfo 
eafy dire&tions for the attainment of the Hebrew, without 
any previous knowledge of the Greek or Latin. See 
ample and convincing reafons for giving a fmall portion 
of time to fuch ftudy, in the prefaces to Robertfon’s 
«¢ Gate, or Door to the Holy Tongue,” firft printed 1653; 
and Dr. Bayley’s ** Entrance to the Sacred Language,’* | 
printed 1782, 
