DEU 
den, Wael he panel hia — by ae ing the de- 
gree of do& Thr 
he was arr pr 
1639, he was called to {ucceed Ifaac Pontanus, in the chair - 
of natural philofophy and mathematics, ‘and, in 
at eapeare to w 
F 
we 
o Groningen, where, i milar to 
thofe he held at Harderwick, he was appointed re€tor of 
the univerfity, and:ancient of the church. Amid the bufi- 
nefs which {uch accumulated ae heaped upon him, he 
found leifure to write a greater number of treatifes on the 
different parts o hepa and philofophy, ane have Lae 
from the pen of almoft a In the lift Halle 
has" giver, we a the ae oF Clee tore baer or differ- 
‘tations. ue a {mall number of thefe are on praétical {ub- 
hem are.metaphyfical, and a ftill greater 
“number are esate: ial, Thefe are written with great acri- 
infufed ate ona fe ew of the titles follow, for the reft 
the reader is referred to - vans parts of sa Bibliothe- 
ca of Haller. ‘* Joann oppenburgius, Weautontimoru- 
menos, feu retorfio i ijorertm de libello alco, cui a 
taru 
es judi umu 1643, 4to e of 
difpute is the nature of the foul , and on the intligences 
that dire€t the ane of the ftars. ‘* Canticum Avicenne 
‘de Medicina, ex Arab. Lat. reddit,” 1649, 4t 6s Differ. 
tationes duz, prior de ie Cordis et Sanguins, altera de 
laGte ac nutrim: cetus in utero,” 4to. 1651. In this he 
defends - ition of seal Pa as defcribed 
countryman Harve ‘© Synopfis Medicine univerfalis,” 
¥649., &c. Deufingius died in the winter of 1666, of a 
pleuritic affeGtion, occafioned by taking a long journey, in 
very fevere weather, to vifit the count of Naflau, to whom 
he-was phyfician. Eloy Di&. Hi 
DEUTEROCANON CAL, compounded of fea 
MeLvovsKosy Geir a Biblical Hi iftory, a appel- 
ertai ks he 
-& 
jond 
sake canon after the reft 5 either becanfe they 
were or aa till after the compilation of the canon, or 
becanfe of fome difputes as to their canonical authority. 
the Jews, it is paleany, acknowledge feveral books in 
‘their canon, w ut there later than t 
ae put b 
Babylonith captivity. Such are thofe . tig Pee 
Haggai, &c. and thofe of Ezra and Neh 
— the Ro oe church i fince added “omer to the 
H that were not, nor could be, € canon of the 
with eee of the ee books, as that of the Mac 
om, &c. Others were added ftill later, be: 
caufe their canonical authority had not been yet examined ; 
and, till fuch examen, and judgment, they might be fet 
afide, at pleafur 
But ae dar church has pe i to the canonical 
authority of thefe books, there is room now for 
r members to doubt of them ne een was for the Jews 
to doubt of thofe of. a = Ezra: and the deutero- 
canonical books are s canonical as the proto- 
canonical ; ae only Giese Seren. them. confifting in 
Holy Scri ane which oe 
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this, that the canonical authority of the one was not pene- 
rally known, examined; ‘and fettled, fo foon as that of the 
others. 
The Nesterseanontedl books, in the modern canon, are, 
‘the -book of < ther, either -the: whole, or at leak the feven 
ift 
James ; and 
fecond and third of St. John; 
Three Childrens the Pra 
Sufanna, of Bel and the one j 
ark; the eel {weat, and the ete eof the angel, 
ay in St. Luke, chap. xxii. and the biltory of the adul- 
us woman in ‘St. John, chap. viii, See Canon and 
‘DEUTERONOMY, one of = facred books of the 
the 
It does not appear that Mofes, who feems, from feveral 
paflages that occur towards a ese to have been the 
Poe . this made any divifion of what he wrote, 
Boskes ; or that he gave jaca names an 
ne eS ie different parts of his work ; nor do the Jews, 
even at this day, apne them in ~ aaa pee ufe-in 
the fynagogues, but wr ing as one fingle 
work, without any ater dition belie that of sie and 
great parafches. is tru the r copies, ufed by 
eee perfons, re are divided, into & ve parts, as among © 
t they give them no other name but the frft word 
Geek each divifion begins; much as we do in quoting 
a decree, or chapter of the canon law 
Thus the firft part of ec 8 work ae call PYWNRAD 
Berefchit, becaufe it begins that word ; the fecond, they - 
call Dy 5x4 ve Schemath the third, R75 Va- 
jickra 3 the renea 5: V ajiedabbe og the fifth, naw 
"aE Elleb educharig. sw ich j one of the fi 
words thereof. This cuftom is ngs ancien among 
ntaries on thofe 
pee called FQ OWRD. Brett Rabb, m3" 
moby ndoei Peelleh ers = bba, &c. from the Prolo- 
us te atus O e Gre a. when they fir | 
& 
tranflated the Bld pave ne five parts into which it was di- 
es of Genefis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, 
cepting that of Leviticus, which is 
prefs what is contained in thofe oe or at ‘eatt the mioft © 
remarkable things contained therein; which is the ufual - 
reek manner of giving ti 
The book of Deuteronomy was fo called, becaufe this laft ~ 
art of the work of Mofe 
> and pie onomy is ftill called; by the rab- - 
jpn mye Repeti- - 
wt) 
, a acc 
blefiings, prouile d: 
kee ia the law; and.of curfes, threatened to fuch as tranf- - 
it. 
“The book of Deuteronomy was written in the fortieth, : 
year. after the delivery from Fj ByPty -in the country of the 
Moabites beyond Jordan: Moles being then in the. 
year of his age ; or in the lait year of his life. It contains, in 
Hebrews: - 
