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name). Stock, Eichorn, Bode, Storr, and Adler, 

 in Germany ; of la Croze, in France ; of de Rossi, 

 in Italy; and of Diirell, Ridley, Woide, and 

 White, in Great Britain, to illiisirate these auxili- 

 ary lang,uages and dialects, or to present the pub- 

 lic with various readings and versions from them, 

 and through this medium to illustrate the Hebrew 

 scriptures, are well known, and have often been 

 the subjects of high praise. 



The collection and collation of ancient Hebrew 

 Manuscripts, which were pursued in the eighteenth 

 century to an extent greatly beyond any former 

 example, may be considered as among the distin- 

 guished honours of the age. In 1707 Dr. Jolin 

 Mill, a learned English divine, published an edi- 

 tion of the New Testament, with the various read- 

 ings, collected from -many diliercnt manuscripts, 

 to'^which he had devoted the unwearied labour of 

 thirty years. In 1752 the celebrated Wetstein, of 

 Germany, whose talents and erudition are well 

 known, published a work on the same plan, but, 

 as many suppose, executed with greater judgment. 

 He like his predecessor, expended much tune and 

 labour in his work, and travelled into foreign 

 countries to examine all the manuscripts that 



published a number of curious and interesting questions relating 

 to Arabic literature, which he had addressed to a nuniber ot learn- 

 ed men, sent by the king of Denmark into Arabia and o 

 ^vhich he desired their attention. These querves not only led to 

 much inquiry, and produced much infor.nation, irom the persons 

 for whom they were immediately intended ; but they also .d o 

 a more general study of the Arabic language, as an aux.h r> to 

 ibe Hebrew, than had before taken place in tlic coUeg^ and uni- 

 Teriitles of Germany. 



