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this Nature happened, Mill appear probable from a different 

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

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

 sdj.,, a ttW>«^ T 95';^> Wy «», ^ f^opv^avTtj &c. that as <7<.y^\ (no lefs perhaps than 

 ^'''- JULiv;^! tatlilo \ the correfpondent Word in the AS/ri^cVerfion) will 



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 fame Reafon ^W><iv may be fuppofed 

 to fignify nothing more than the Removal of fuch Covering. 

 E^ofv^ouTis, which we render hrealung up, is omitted in the Cam- 

 bridge MS. and not regarded in the Sjyriac and fome other 

 Verfions : 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 

 quatiior angulis le&uli totidem funihis 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 

 E^opJi^Tif, ("-more probable that it fhould be joy ned with 'tin and denote, agree- 

 t-hs Fojis &c. able to the correfpondent Word fatefacientes mbt. Jerom s Tran- 

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



Pofts,Ealluftrades,ParapetWalLor whatever elfefupported it. The 

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

 ff^/jef2 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 efpe- 

 cially i^o-KSi «v) which was fpread over the Place where He was 

 fitting, and having removed whatever JJjould keep it extended, 

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

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

 A,k r nif^ijieov For that there was not the leaft Force or Violence offered to 

 %d'e ''iPtt' the Roof, and confequently, that e^opu|ou7ss, no lefs than i'^iTiyxmi 

 ^''^' 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 ^s- '^ yufifiai KstS»i)ts(.» cu-nn, per tegulas demife- 

 runt ilium, (which we tranflate. They let him down through 

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

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



iSc.a'^V.^(//fi. SSa. y^r^iJ. JL) texit, obumbravit ; unde"^V;^ (y^M^. Jk,) Umbra 

 & JLik^Jl Tcdum, Laqueare, Tabulatum, Umbraculum. Vid. Car. Schaaf Lex. Syriac. 

 p. 214— 15^. & CajkU. Leyi. p-ipi- 



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