614 Pgainíl ellarmme, C A p,2; It is certain therefore that this whole dream touching a fingular man, was anerrour in the Ancient writers, but it is- madnefs for you to hold ir,yea and to perfift obftinately in it. Thus far of the firs Scripture. Thefecond is that ofmaul, aThe%a.;.Vnlefro there come a depart- ingfirJ ; and that man offn(hall be revealed, the Sonofperditien,gte. And after ;;and then 'hall that Wickedman be revealed,Wham the Lord IfußJhall confume; &c. Whereyou fay, that. the Apofflefpeaketh ofa certain andparticularperfon, as it appeareth by the Greek Articlés,O anthropos,O vos,that man,that fon,O Anom,that Wickedman.For the Çree1ZArticles contrail thejgnification to one certain thing; and there- fare, you fay,you marvel/ that our WritersWho brag, fo of the knoW- ledgeofthe Tongues, have not obferved this matter. I anfwer, it is true indeed, that theGreek Articlehath anEmphafis or force,to call back and to reftrain a matter that is ofan infinite and vncertain notion to f+ome certain thing ; but this certain thing is as well a certain genus or kinde of thing, as a certain individuum or fingular matter accor- ding to the nature of that that is handled. So that we that be no- vices, think this to be a new andunheard of point of Grammar and and Logick, that the Greek Article fhould alwaies point out forne individuals matter. What t1aall b fpiron, &c. He thatfoWeth, and he that reapeth, be one fingular Solder, and onefingular Reaper ? lohn4. 37. Shall n'àmartia, fin,lignifie ane individuali Sin entring into the World ; And shall ó tha- natos, death,fignifie onefingular death, Rom. 5.1a. Or dull ó cleptes, aThief, be one Thief, John to. i o. We have now got one rule more to our Grammar, ofthe Iefuites teaching then ever we learnt, or then ever any Grecian I beleeve thought or oncedreamt of, Our writershave been too dull-witted toobferve this. Certainly this garland hath been referved for you (O Bellarmine) whole name is worthy to be regiftred in the Book, that writeth of the Inventors ofmatters in the next editionof ir, you have found us out filch a worthy peece of learning. But fay you , Epiphanius teached thisfame thing, in the ninth herefse, that is,of the Samaritanes, faying that ANTHRO FO S,a man, fignifieth, a man as it is a commonnameforall men, but banthropos, that or the:man,fignifieth a fingular man. I anfwer, that this iniury ofyours is not tobe endu- red, whereby you would raft a blot of fo notable ignorance upon that molt learned man. Epiphanîue teacheth nootherwife in this mat- ter, thenall other learned men, for Where the Article ( faith .he) is added
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