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the methods commonly used by interpreters; 

 and proposed many probable conjectures highly 

 instructive to the sacred critic*. Several other 

 writers of considerable note have also presented 

 the public with useful observations on the same 

 subject 



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* See Observations on divers Passages of Scripture, &c. 4 vols, 

 Sro, 1 76 and 1787. 



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