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of the GreeTc Lanpiage, 273 



peailer to Wetstein^s Dissertation. It is, Lowever, iirsjed witli 

 much force against the Erasmians, by Martin and by Schmidt, 

 The former, in his reply to Metkerke, (who had incautiously ad- 

 duced it as being favourable to his own cause,) thus presses his 

 adversary : " What shall I say on this point, Metlcerke ; or rath- 



F 

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er what shall I not say? In truth, when you appeal to the He* 

 hrewSf you betray your utter ignorance — Hebrwos prorsus non 

 intelligis — nor, as it appears, have you ever read a passage in 



their language. For what in the (rreek is rendered by ;j, is in tha 

 Hebrew i long [that is ee] and therefore in Greek it must be pro- 

 nounced in the same manner." Martin then examines the He- 

 brew words referred to by Metkerke, Schmidt remarks, that in a 

 multitude of Greek words which are retained in the Syriac Ver- 

 siou of the New Testament, the Greek ^ is always rendered by 

 Hirik and never by .. or by • — thus, 



Nt)^3 from Kr,(poi^ Matt. xvi. 18. 

 Nt3 vpid from <3'a^axX;jr6j, John xiv. 16. 



^*P»nn from hotO^KTjy Matt. xxvi. S8, Luke i. 7^- 

 DVTJ^Ip from Ko^vnXiog^ Acts x. 1. 



t3p1p*DJ|D from TSVTijxo(rTf}j Acts ii. I. 



5»jDpi<| from ^r}Tt}^oi,t Acts xviii. 15. 



with some other examples, which it is 



in this pkce. 



It is only necessary to notice one other argument in this case j 



which is the syllable B3i used by Cratinus (as before observed) 

 to express the cry of a sheep. In addition to the remarks made 

 ntider the letter Beta, I need only observe, (as Velastus does, 

 after Fahricius,J that there were two writers of the name of Cra- 



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needless to parfcicul 



