Ki 
Hebrews or that the Seventy 
were not in his Hebre 
were filled with the feveral verfions above mentioned ; 
the c 
HE 
of of hentcsicns prior to that of Sepmackay under Com- 
modus, or about the year 175: thefe . Greek verlions, 
pad Dr. Kennicott, were made by the Jews from their 
opies of the Hebrew, and were defigned to 
Sead ia the place of es Seventy, againft which the 
were pre 2 e it feemed to favour the Chril- 
tians. ‘The fifth was ay i at Jericho, in the reign of 
Caracalla, about the year 2173 and the fixth was difco- 
Nicopolis, in the of Alexander Severus, 
car 228: laftly, Origen = recovered part 
nth, containing only th 
we tigen, who had held ree ae pe wiksods with 
the Jews in Egypt and Paleftine, obferving that they al- 
ways objeéted ok thofe palrgss of fcripture quoted 
againft them, and ap pealed ebrew text ; the 
better and confound the Jews, 
given the fenfe of the 
brew, or rather, to thew, by a number of different ver- 
s, what the Sn fenfe of the Hebrew was, undertook to 
reduce all thefe verfions into a bo ong with the 
to vindicate dake pallgen 
y> 
Hebrew text, oy as as they might be eafily confronted, and af. 
ford a mutual light to each other. 
He made the Hebrew text his ftandard ; and allowing 
that eee might have happened, and that the old 
copies might and did read differently, he con- 
tented ‘himtelf with marking fuch words or a ences as 
w text, nor the later Greek verfions, 
and to add fuch words or fentences as were omitted in the 
Seventy, prefixing an afterific to the additions, and an obe- 
hifk to the others 
In order to this he Bat ‘cheiee of eight columns: in 
the firit he gave the Hebrew text in Hebrew characters ; 
in the fecond, the fame text in Greek charadters ; the reft 
all 
fe for phrafe ; ; 
re was a ninth column for the lec 
olumns rs WA verfe for verfe, and phra 
in the pfalms t 
ait verfion. : 
Lise york. Origen called Seman Hexapla, q. d. fex- 
tuple, 0} WO Sigg aia as © 7. regarding the firit 
fix Greek yl See Ter ; : 
Indeed, St. Epiphanius, taking in likewife | E two 0 co- 
lumns of the fies calls the work O@apla, as coniifting 
of eight: volum 
This pone) pw which Montfaucon i imagines con- 
fifled o volumes, perifhed low 
with the lib + Cefarea, where it 
the year 653; though feveral of the ace sae have 
pre: $s pieces t! f, particularly St. Chryfoftom 
en the P 8s Sergei 
hiftory of the gre ing 
‘HEXAPOD, of 22, and de: in Zoology, an animal with 
_HEKAPYRAMIDES,j in Natural Hiftory, the name <4 
ag 
ui a Tis dsived foocs-the Greek 5, fix and GIVE by 
fed of fix fides or 
to no cohunty, 
this 
genus, pe fe Stoic fj 
are two wn fpecies : 
with a broad bafe, which is very rare, and found only in the 
pointed 
"ge eeeereatiatti tee And, 2. A long- 
of Edward IIf. 
« of an genus are {pars formed into pyramids, 
planes, an on 
HEX 
one, witha 
— quarries of the Hartz-foreft. Hil’s Hitt. of Fof. 
225. 
“HEXARMONIAN, i in the Ancient Mufic, a nome, or 
fong, in an effeminate and languid ityle, of which Aho? 
phanes accufed its author. 
HEXASTYLE, com 
eb the Ancient Architelure, a building with fix columns in 
To 
The temple of Honour and Virtue at Rome, built by 
Mutius, was a hexattyle. 
XHAM, in Geography, a market-town and parifh in 
the ward of Tyne edale, and county of Northumberland, in 
England, is feated at the confluence of the rivers North and 
South Tyne.. In the year 1800, ‘the town and its fuburbs 
confifted of 732 houfes, and contained 4565 inhabitants. 
This parith confilts of five fownfhips, and was ranked as a 
county -palatine till the 33d year of Henry VIII. It is 2 
miles W. by N. from Newcaftle, and has a petty feflions. 
Anciently it was a manor belonging to the fee of York, 
whofe prelates were invefted with great 2 at and powers 
within the jurifdiction of this manor erties were 
affirmed to them by the king’s council in palgonal in t 
21ft year of Edward I, and again by a claufe in the 13th. 
Horfley, in a Britannia Romana, has 
given views of fome aaa ge ftones, which are referred to 
the Anglo-Romans. One the infcriptions records the 
name of the emperor Feats Septimius Severus. Horfley 
conjeciures that this place was the Roman ttation mentioned 
The 
columns, sidered carvings, oratories, 
sl related that the a rng procured aris from. vari 
cat of Europe, to build po dec milding 
ed by the pea abo the year 821s 
> however, was e 
ch ftill ow. ee difph 
« dtalfo'e 
m in his journey t 
friditol, or f gs aa Rags as Selleck here. 
oufe is deferibed by the fame author as built over an ancient 
. fer pees Nie Ne fo! old fquare tower of three ftories. 
e ttre of am are narrow and inconyenient. 
the Say of re ies was fought a memorable bat 
tween the Lancaftrians and Yorkifts in 1463» when the 
The monarch fled for life and sass 
he infant prince, fought a 
t affailed a d. 
narrow, bafe ; this is found in the fiffures of the - 
oe 
reéted in the time of : 
chap fome_ ze mae bs 
mpofed of & Ey fi: ry aa ‘sudo, column, — 
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