upon his own ground, and show him that his objections are the objections of

ignorance.

The principal abbreviations employed in this work are :—

The names of other authors have generally been given in full.

A list of the abbreviations used by Pool in his "Synopsis" is subjoined :—

Bayly, Geddes.—Was yet a desolate from the brazen and iron heaven of the place, &c. Homeric mythology. Over this arch they Gesenius.—A (for, of the segol form, supposed were the waters of heaven (Gen. as, hence accented Milel, i. e., on the i. 7; vii. 11; Ps. civ. 3; cxlviii. 4). penultima). Root in Chald., to be LXX. σrepéwμa. Vulgate, firmamentum. motionless, confounded, desolate. (Comp. Luther, Veste.

8 καὶ ἐκάλεσεν ὁ θεὸς τὸ στερέωμα, οὐempty. Syr. 2, idem, abbreviated from, pavóv. Kaì eïdev ó beòs, őti kadóv. kaì éyéveto 1. As substantive the state of being waste. ἑσπέρα, καὶ ἐγένετο πρωΐ, ἡμέρα δευτέρα. emptiness, Gen. i. 2. Job xxvi. 7; a desert.? Kai eiTev & OεÙS, σvvaxonτW Tо vowρ Tò solitude, Deut. xxxii. 10. Job vi. 18.

Au. Ver.-4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

and the gathering together of the waters ὅτε ἐγένετο. ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἐποίησε κύριος ὁ θεὸς
called he Seas : and God saw that it was good. τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν. 5 καὶ πᾶν χλωρὸν
Ken.The Divine approbation being ex- ἀγροῦ πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ
pressed once, as to the parts of the creation πάντα χόρτον ἀγροῦ πρὸ τοῦ ἀνατεῖλαι· οὐ
upon the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth days; γὰρ ἔβρεξεν ὁ θεὸς ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἄνθρωπος
not at all on the second day, and twice on the οὐκ ἦν ἐργάζεσθαι αὐτήν. 6 πηγὴ δὲ ἀνέ-
third : there can scarce be doubt, but that here βαινεν ἐκ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐπότιζε πᾶν τὸ πρόσω
is now some mistake. The regular order will wπOV TηS YS.
be restored, by admitting a transposition;
and by allowing—either, that the latter part
of verse 8 (and the evening and the morning
were the second day) originally closed the
10th verse-or, that the latter part of ver. 10
(and God saw that it was good) originally
belonged to ver. 8. And there (in ver. 8)
the words are found in the Greek version;
though they are also, in the present Greek
copies, at ver. 10; and probably, in one of
the two places, the Greek has been assimilated
to the corrupted Hebrew. See my General
Dissertation, page 35. The preceding ob-
servation is founded on a remark, inserted
by the late learned Archbishop Secker in the
margin of his Hebrew Bible.

CHAP. II. 2.

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καὶ κατέπαυσε τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ, ὧν ἐποίησε.

Au. Ver.-2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Ken.-2 And on the sixth day God ended his work which he had made, &c. Following the Samaritan text, with LXX, and Syriac versions. 1, which stands for six, might easily have been changed into 1, which de

notes seven.

5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

6 But there went up a mist from [or, a mist which went up from, &c.] the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Rosenmüller and Schumann.-4 These
are the generations of the heavens and of
the earth when they were created: In the
day that the Lord God made the heavens
and the earth,

5 No shrub of the field was yet in the
germinated.
earth, and no herb of the field had yet

nondum.

Au. Ver. And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

Gesen.-m. Gen. ii. 12: Numb. xi. 7. According to Symm. Theod. in Num., the Vulgate in both passages, and Josephus, Bdellium, Booλxov, i. e., an odoriferous rosin, which is transparent and like wax, the produce of a tree growing in Arabia, India, |and Media, perhaps the vine-palm (Borassus labelliformis, Linn.) According to LXX.

Ver. 19, 20.

Au. Ver.-19 And out of the ground the

,LoRD God formed every beast of the field פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה :

and every fowl of the air; and brought

TIT

ה' זעירא .4 .v

4 αὕτη ἡ βίβλος γενέσεως οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς, them unto Adam to see what he would call

Rosen. And out of the ground the Lord Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy God had formed, &c., &c. countenance fallen?

καὶ ἔσεσθε ὡς θεοὶ, γινώσκοντες καλὸν καὶ the door? Yet the lust of it shall be under πονηρόν.

R. 900, LXX., Symm.-02. Hæc lectio non plane repudianda, minime tamen chap. iii.

-potest, vel etiam: prava concupiscentia in תִּיטִיב שְׂאֵת וְאִם לֹא תֵיטִיב לַפֶּתַח

sidiatur tibi. Et ad te appetitus ejus, sc. peccati, sed tu dominaberis ei, tuum est illi in dominari, non sinere te ab eo vinci, i. e..

6 καὶ εἶπε κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῷ Κάϊν. ἵνα τί resistere ei debes. Peccatum tanquam