342 UNIVERSAL ERUDI?ION. 



ier of Hchraifms ; with \vords and terms 

 related to the worlhip, to the laws, policy 1 , 

 ;.rs, and cultoms of the Jews-, by which 

 ]S it became a vulgar language, a provincial 

 and rude dialed, in companion of the ancient 

 or lieeral Greek. He that understands the 

 New Teftament will not in conlequence under- 

 ftand * Homer. It may appear furprifing, that 

 J^kphus, the Jewilh hiftorian, wiio lived at the 

 time of the drftruction of Jeruialem, about 

 forry years after the death of Lhrift, Iliould be 

 to \.nr: Grc; k wiiii ib much purity and 

 . i .bur he was at once, a courtier, a mi- 

 , a general, and a man of letters; had 

 J e v.r -ek lunguage, and had fpoke it at 

 tiiv- cou-t vf Vfcip.air.n in Rome. For the fame, 

 rc-ifon, St. Paul alfo wrote better Greek than 

 ruvangelifts and other Apoftles. 



VII. From all that has been faid, it is appar- 

 iow '-nucii utility attends the ftudy of the 

 ^k K'.^ue, and how much reaibn the Knglilh 

 tor applying themfelves to it from their e .rly 

 th. 'f licre are, moreover, in modern lan- 

 es, an infinity of terms in the arts and 

 es, c., moft of thofe in attronomy, mathe- 

 cs, phyiic, anatomy,' botany, and the names 

 of many rnach'nes, inftruments, and other mo- 

 ;ons, that are either altogether Greek, 

 or c t i-'orn it, which renders this language 

 ia a manner inJifpeniable to a man or real 

 \Ve caanot, laftly, determine, if mo- 

 dern. 



