CA P . 9. 4eveltttiÓn of the Ap.ocalypfe. ripeneffe ? ltiberu will have the Greek word that fignifies a crown. to be hereput for an helmet, according to thecuftome of the Greek tongue ; but he is deceived. Another word indeed very neer ír, Stephane is ufed fometinmes in that lgnification in Homer , but the other word which is here Stephano, is never fo ufed, as we may learn out of Plutarch. Sympof. 8. Problem. 8. The Latines, faith he, call Stephanos a Crown , from the crown of the head , as Homer likened a helmet to Stephane, fo HOchius defcribes Stephane to be a kinde of helmet , that bath tops flicking out : But he faith no fuch thingof Stephanos. To that (faithhe) Servius offrmethupon that of Virgill,allaccording to the cufiom had16ornhair, hid With an helmet: on which place Servius writeth thus : a crown , that is an helmet; and he bath ufed that fpeech of Homer , for he called an helmet Stephanen. I doubt not but Servius knew that Stephanen is id Homer,and not Stephanon : but becaufe of the likenefhe ofthe words, the Printers haveerred, and given us the one for the other. Seeing therefore that the Grecians do diftinguifh the ufe of thefe two words, the fignificationof the one, is not to be transferred to the other. And their faces Was like the faces of men. They made indeed a pleafant alluring thew, and full humanity,but filch as had no truth, nor fincerity underneath it : What crafty companions we re all the rout of thefe Religious orders in this thing ? whom did they not ex- ceed in fained courtefie ? but well did Hildegardprophecie ofthem ; TheyJ all be courteous, faith the, but yet great flatterers , perfidious traytors, Holy hypocrites, &c. We have no needof witneffes in fo clear a matter. Thofe barbarous Arabians alto, how could they have gotten fo many countries in a. fhort time under their power, unleffe they had allured themby their fained humanity, to a volun- tary revolting ? When bloodycruelty iheweth it. felf_openly , men had rather die by fighting, then bymiferablefervitude.' 8. end they had hair, as the hair of Women. Hair it given Womenfor a covering,faith the Apoftle, i Cor, m t ., 15. This hair that ',groweth fo rankly, teacheth us, that the Locufts should be hidden under thenames of women ; as it were under - longhair .;. -and that ,they fhould glory,exeeedingly in this ornament,; äs cbuñting it to be a very high honour to themfelves. What is moreexpreffe:? iriswell known, that the- were called. Agarenes of Agar. Sara's maid , and that thisname isoften given them in Zonaras, Necetaá, Gregor u , and, other Greek- writers ,; wla were?of_necefhty. to Sf2, make 4P59
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