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DeoXegem accepifl^nt, ibi primum literas edidicerunt : ac Spr 
itudine ceu quieto quodam literario ludo ufus Deus, ipfos totis 
quadraginta annis exarandis Literis excrcere fivit* Quamob- 
refn in DelertoSinai montis, inque omnibus Hebræorum man- 
fionibus videre eft Lapides omnes ex Montibus delapfos Literis^ 
Hebraicis infcriptos, utr ego, qui iftac Iter habui , teftificon 
Quas Infcriptiones Judæi quidam, qui ipfas legerantl, narrabant 
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menfe tali;^ ut plerumque muki noftra æva in Diverforiis fcri- 
bcre folens Illi vera, utpot^ qui nuper literas edidiciflent, fre- 
quentius fcribebant , & Literas multiplicabant ita ut illhæc 
omnia Loca Literis hebraicis infculptis plena fcit j quæ ut qui- 
dem 
(a) Corp. Hifl. Byxjwi^ Allatii Symmikta p«^ 22. Ed!, Venet, 
Pag; 24- 
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