or River of Egypt. ay 



or other only (and there are fifty or fixty Miles) betwixt that 

 City and Teluftum\ nothing certain and determinate can be 

 gathered from this Quotation. 



And indeed, how indefinite foever St. 7(?mw's Meaning may st. jerom 

 be in this Place, vet, m others, by taking iSwor ^nd the Nt/e^ndthcNUe 



1 • ■ 1 ' 1-1 1 » t , to be the 



for fynonymous Terms, he mtirely nivalidates the Authority fame. 

 of all that had been faid by him before, in Support of the 

 River at Rhinocorura^ being The Rher of Egypt. Ter Sihor 

 (fays he, in his Comment upon yer.z. i8.) ^os aquam turhi- 

 dmn inter fret at I Jumm , quod nierhum Hehrakum fignificat, 

 null'ique dubium qu'in Nilus aquas turhidas haheat ; ^ quod 

 Flumiis yljjyriormn Euphratem Jignificet ; d'tcente Scriptura^ 

 {Gen. IS. i8. ) quod repromijjionis terra fit a Torrente Egypti 

 ufque ad Flwvium ?nagnum Euphratem. And again upon If. 

 a g . 3 . Ubi nos legimm Semen Negotiator um^ in Hebneofcriptum 

 eft. Semen Sihor, quod fubauditur Nili, eo quod aquas turbidas 

 habeat, quibt^s Egypti fegetes irrigantur. Where we may ob- 

 ferve, that befides the Proofs he has here given us, that Sihor 

 and the Nile are the fame River, he contradidts the Diftin£lion 

 that is made by him afterwards, betwixt the Torrent of Egypt ^ 

 and the Ri'uer Euphrates ; an Obfervation, that lliould by no 

 means be palled by unregarded. Et hoc notandum, fays htyi^^hai Mitz- 

 quod in Judce^ Terminis (ad Orientem fc.) Flwvius appellatur ;petfy '"^fn!" 

 JEgypti Jinibus, ad Occidentem, Torrens\ qui turbidas aquas ^orLt ^/ 

 habet at non perpetuas. For this Definition of a Torrent, will ^^^^^* 

 by no means agree with the Nile ; which hath it's Water turbid 

 indeed, yet perpetually running. And belides, how different 

 foever x^i^wotpp©- and 7rer*/^35 may be in their proper Meanings 

 and Significations, yet, in this Place, they both of them de- 

 note the fame Thing ; being, as has been already obferved, 

 indifcriminately, though improperly ufed by the LXX. for 

 the Word Nahaly in feveral Places of Scripture. Whereas 

 Nahal Ihould always be interpreted The Ri'ver ; and when it 

 is joyned with Adit zr aim, it fhould be rendered The River of 

 Egypt, and not The Torrent of Egypt-, which carries along 

 with it a low and diminitive Signification, highly derogatory 

 to the Dignity of the Nile, how expreffive foever it may be 

 of the imaginary Rivulet at Rhinocorura. 



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