oyS Thy fie αϊ and Mifcellaneous 



this Nature happened, will appear probable from a different 

 Conftrudion that may be put upon the Words in the Original. 

 For it may be obferved with Relation to the Words of St. Mark, 

 ^7iy>,, a aWj^f-^ Τ 5έ';^/ 07Γ« «>, & ίξορώξαντίί &c. that as '^yv (no lefs perhaps than 

 ^'«^• lU^T^i. ial/i/o ', the correfpondent Word in the 5/ri^(7 Veriion) wall 



denote, with Propriety enough, any Kind of Covering, the Veil 

 which I have mentioned, as well as a Roof or Cieling proper- 

 ly fo called ; fo for the fiime Reafon :^9iV«iv may be fuppofed 

 to fignify nothing more than the Removal of fuch Covering. 

 Εξορυξίατέί, which wc render breaking up, is omitted in the Cam- 

 bridge MS. and not regarded in the Syriac and feme other 

 Veriions : the Tranflators perhaps either not rightly compre- 

 hending the Meaning of it or finding the Context clear with- 

 out it. In the Terfian Verfion indeed we have it fupplyed by 

 quatuor angulis le6iuli totidem funibus annexis, as if it was fup- 

 pofed to relate, either to the letting down of theBedftead or to the 

 making Holes in it for the Cords to pafs through. Though it is ftill 

 ΈξψΙα^ -nu or ^orc probablc that it ihould be joy ned with 5ϊ'>^ and denote, agree- 

 the Top &c. able to the correfpondent Word fatefacienies 'mSt.yero?n'?, Tran- 

 flation, a further laying of it open, by breaking or plucking up the 

 Pofts,Balluftrades,ParapetWalljOr whatever elfe fupported it. The 

 Context therefore, according to this Explication, will run thus. 

 ff^hen they could not come at Jefus/or the prefs, they drew back 

 the Veil where he was, or they lay open that Part of it elpe- 

 cially (owy 5jv) which was fpread over the Place where He was 

 fitting, and having removed whatever fiould keep it extended, 

 (and thereby hinder them from doing the intended good Office,) 

 they let down the Bed wherein the Sick of the Talfie lay. 

 Δ /i τ wpcif/ai- For that there was not the leaft Force or Violence offered to 

 Vd'e "OfVhf the Roof, and confequently, that Ιξο^ΰξΜτα, no lefs than ίτητίγχσν,ι 

 ^"'^' will admit of fome other Interpretations than what have been 

 given to them in our Verfion, appears from the parallel Place 

 in St. Luke, where a/^ τ^ jupa^y ^sSinsf.•* «^-ηι, per tegulas demife- 

 runt ilium, (which we tranflate. They let hi?n down through 

 the Tiling, as if That had adlually been already broken up) 

 ihould be rendred, they let him down over, along the Side or 



• 



iSc.a"^V.^(/ii•^. ''Su. ^Mi-. JL) texit, obumbravit j unde'*^^^ C/^vji, Jk) Umbra 

 & JLik^l Tedum, Laquearc, Tabulatiim, Umbraculum, Vid. Qar, Schttaf Lex. Syriac. 

 p.214— ij. & Ci/?i7/• Lex. p.ifoj. 



