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4. With regard to itobv, of the Chaldee or Sy- 
riac form, it will be fufiicient to obferve, that it an- 
fwers here to aeternitas, perpetvitas, See. 
So that tfchv iTHD may be rendered reverentia 
AETERNl TATIS, or REVERENTIA AETERNA. The 
term N'ftby may likewife be confidered as equivalent 
to xzhyb, in aeternvm, the particle *7 being not 
improbably here underftood. Such ellipfes as this 
were by no means uncommon in the ealtern world., 
as we find clearly evinced by (7) Noldius. 
5. Nothing farther is requiiite to be obferved of 
the Hebrew, Chaldee, or Syriac verb 3"ip (8), ob- 
tvlit, libavit, dedicavit, Sec. than that it 
feems perfedtly confonant to the tenor of the infcrip- 
tion, and conveys to us the fame idea that is exhi- 
bited to our view by the word ANE 0 I-I 1 CEN, in the 
correfpondent Greek infcription. 
6. The next word NTiDDr or NTHDD (9), operi- 
mentvm, is intirely Syriac. It may not be impro- 
per to remark, that the letter Thau here is of a fome~ 
what unulual form ; and that the Vau is underftood, 
or fuppreffed, after the Phoenician manner. The 
figure likewife of the Samecb, unlefs part of it has 
been effaced by the injuries of time, does not per- 
fedtly agree with any of thofe charadlers that have 
been hitherto confidered as forms of that element. 
7. The copulative Vau, that follows, and connedts 
SsTlDD with the fubffantive K&ny, or lectvs, 
(7) Chriftian. Nold .Concordant. Particular. Ebrao-Chaldaicar. 
p. 416, 417. Jenae, 1734. 
(8) Vid. Johan. Buxtorf. Sen. et Jun. Val. Schindl. aliofq. 
Lexicograph. Hebr. Chal. Syr. &c. 
(9) Johan. Buxtorf. Jun. Lex.. Chald. & Syriac, p. 260. 
Baiileae, 1622. 
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