HEBREWS. 
es ee 
The parca we sate recolle&, were a a people re aot aie 
to paftoral life and to rural employments, initances of w 
continually recur. (See particularly Pf. xxii.) We alfo 
find figurative allufions to the rites and ceremonies of their 
Upon the whole, the face 
rufing fpecimens of thei 
try, in order to our feeling its force and relifhing its Secariie. 
happy influence of good governme le is 
on a peo 
exhibited by a fine p comiperten in the lait words of David, 
Jam. XXill. 3. 
2 e cee ruleth over men mutt be | iuft, 
phere math is i get Ba or perfo- 
rved, that no perfonifications 
oye magnificent and ftriking as 
‘The peftilence is perfonified in 
. Habak. tii. 5. The waters, the mountains, &e. 
mm Ph Aut i6. exiv. 4. If. xliv. 23. 27. Habak. iii. 4. 
ah 22. Ifa. xiv. 9, &c. Jer. xlvii.6. See Proso- 
nification ; and i i ma se 
employed by any poets 
pe ve bas ‘eatpired ethers: 
“As i the feveral kinds of poetical compofition that occur 
facred boo: oe cmp are ft of th the didaétic, elegiac, paf- 
Of th of thefe, or the didaétic, the 
in — Soe books, and rend of David’s P 
tic ‘the 42d. But the moft regular and — elegiac 
compofition is Reet work entitled “ The Z ons of Je~ 
remiah,” which fee. Of paftoral esol we aie a 
fides a ateat 
bunker of idee and hans my ae in the hiftorical and 
oe fuch as the fong of ge = fong of 
ah, acon of a fimilar kind, oo whole book of 
Tie (which ee.) may be ¢ onfidered a 
odes. Oper. 
~The moft eminent of the facred poets are * meng , and 
ies (The sate. ape of David are of the lyric kind : 
Slick there are ‘many Toh = futile 
ae ead he yields 
AHUM 
feetched cot by Bilin Lowth. {See their SERS, aa ve 
Jonah and Daniel, there is ik 
cles.) Inthe prophecies of 
< caliiied of —— 
poetry. Lowth’s * De Sacra Poefi Hebrzorum,’’ or Gree 
gory’s tranflation of this learned and highly interefting 
work, entitled « Le€tures on the Sacred Poetry of the He. 
brews,” in two vols. 8vo. yore ss an abridged account. 
of “4 “e Blair’s Le€tures, vo 
w Points or Renin are e ufually reckoned five, 
SP ae are ak fame with ours, viz. @, ¢, ty 05 then 
each vowel is divided into two, a long and a ie or fhort ; 
the found of the former is fomewhat graver and longer, and 
that of the latter fhorter and more acute. It mu added, 
ich that the two laft vowels have quite different founds ; dif- 
ferent, we mean, in other refpects befides quantity and de- 
of elevation. 
ome others, called ‘ femi-vowels,”’ which are only ee 
motions ferving to conneét the confonants, and make the 
tranfitions more eafy from one to another. On the fubjeét 
uly of Hebrew $8 els, fee Pornrs. See alfe Henruw Language. 
HEB 
S, £, Pipl to th ey a canonical book of the New 
Teftamer ished writer’s name, but generally afcribed 
to the apofile Paul. Condivniag the date of this epiitle, and 
occafion of writing it, fee Erist LE 
here give a concife account of fome queftions 
that have a ees among biblical critics ee 
this epiftle. e firft queftion relates to the perfons for 
whom it was detig ned. Sir Ifaac Newton thought that it was 
written to soi ft Jerufalem about the 
time when 
from his confinement in that city. But this opinion is uil- 
fupported by ancient authority, and deftitute, 7 nee 
appearance of probability. The more proba 
nion is that of Lightfoot, Whitby, Mill, Pearfon, L. Ca 
pellus, 5 — Michaelis, &c. which is, that it was 
fent by Paul to the believing Jews of Judea, who reset 
— bythe unbelieving countrymen what? 
o apoltatize from Chriftianity, and to think that there was 
firength in the arguments urged byt cutors in favour 
of Judaifm ; Sora both which engert the apottle guards 
them 8 opinion is adopted. by Dr. Lardner, W 
alleges the following reafons in fupport of it. 
opinion of the ancient Chriftian writers, who rece! 
epiltle, fuch as Clement of Alexandria, Jerom,  Euthaliog 
Befides, many 
n this epiftle $ ee 
in Judea. To the abjeetions urged by be 
Weta pret 
other, that it was ua 
written in Hebrew, and —, _ Greek. 
een very — os 
we 
Tothefe 10 or 12 vowels mutt be added 
