VER. 17,18. EpOletò the HEBREWS. 2S7 But the following word feems not to admit of that fenfe in this place, tier .iwaprrias. For how can any one be faid to pleafe, orattune, or reconcilefin ? Wherefore force laying the emphafis of the expreffion on the conftrudtion, do regulate the fenfe ofthe Verbby the Noun, of the Adby the Objedt ; and fo will have it lignifie to expiate, cleanfe, and do awayfin ; to cleanfe the fins of thepeople, to do away the finsof the people. The Vulgar Latine renders the word repropitio, utrepropitiarets which, as Anfelm tells us, and he hath thofe that follow him, is compofedofre,prope, and cieo a barbarous Etymologieofa barbarous word. Propicio is a Latineword, and ufed not only by Plautus, butby Suetoniusand Pliny ; andthat to appeafe, attone, pleafe, or turn away anger. Moti Tranflations render it by expio, ad expiandumpeccata ; but the ftgnifi- cation of that word is alfo doubtful. It is indeed fontetimes ufed for to cleanfe, make pure, and to take away fin ; but never inany good Author but withreference untoat- tonement; to take them away- by facritice, by publick punifhments, by mens de- voting themfelves todeftrudtion. So Livy, fpeaking ofHoratius whokilled hisfitter, Ica ut cedesmanifeffa aliquo tarnen piaculo lueretur, imperatumpatri, utfilium expiaretpe- cuniapublica. Expiareis the famewith lucrepiaculo, which is to take away the guilt of a crime by acommutation of punifhments. There may then bea double fenfeofthefe words. r.To make attonement and reconciliation for fin, appeafing the anger and wrath ofGodagaintt it. a. To remove and take away fin, either by the cleanfing and fanldifying of the finer, orby anymeans prevailing with him not tocontinue infin. Againti the firit fenfe, the conftrudtion ofthe word with sac duatrliu fins, isobjedted ; Againft thelatter, the confiantfenfe of theword it fell, which is not to bedeferted. It is the former fenfe therefore whichwe do embrace, and (hall confirm. t. The confiant ufe ofthe word in all good Authors of the Greek Tongue, will ad- mit no other ; iAaoaouat is ofan alive importance, and denotes propitious fado, placo, as we obferved before, toappeafe and attone. And this is that whereby the Heathen generally expreffed their endeavours to turn away the wrath of their gods, to ap- peale them, and then they ufe it tranfitively, with an Accufative éafe of the Objell ; as Homer, Iliad 3. 63,44 xfaoi,Æ, .3eór imiam.15u. To propitiate or appeafe God. And Iliad 1. deign S' ineñr iaaróu¡lnv `Pégat tiJ'àt dtavawr ".ee ioaasaµce' éraxsa "Os tir áp,etótoe vou'rova xád'e' i®ñxev. To ofer an Hecatomb untoApollo for the Greeks, and appeafe him who bath fens on them fi of manyfarrows, or attone him. Andwhen ithath the Accufative cafe the perfn joyned with it, it can bear no other fenfe. So Plutarch, ind.o.euoíais ieoas ; and Lucian, 21470.rìv (We, to appeafe God. Sometidis it isufed with a Dative cafe, asPlutarch in Public. 7naabµer& fan; and then it hath refpedt unto the Sacrifice whereby at- tonement is made, and anger turned away ; and is Mildred .piacularefacrumfacere, to offera piacular facrifice. So that the word conflantlyhath regard unto the anger and wrath of force perfon, which is deprecated, turned away, appealed, by reconcilia- tion made. 2. The ufeof the wordby the LXX confirms it unto this fenfe. Commonly they render the Hebrew in7 byit ; which when regarding God, always fignifies attonement, and toattone. So the Noun, Pfal. 48. t7. No man can redeem his brother, 1rt+-t¢`i 7197 arri`m l nor can be give to God his ranfom, or the price of his redemption, igíAaap eu Andunto the Verb where it refpedteth theoffence to be attoned for, they ufuallyannex weeì to it. Exod. 32.30. You havefinnedagreatfin, and now I willgo up unto the Lord, 07r1Ntor7 11)2 t719]í2 1'l1N, im içrtostonsat vrepì i zp.aeîiac vaav, that I may attone for yourfina. And it is God who is the Objedt of the Ad of ap- pealing, or attoning ; to make attonement with God for your fin. So Numb. 28. 22, 30. Nehem. to. 33. Once in the Old Tettament it is ufed- tranfitively, and fin placed as the Objet ofit, Dan. 9. 24. pp 197`71 ,ÿ si i todaayo, vie, sdaziar, to at- tune fin, or unrighteoufnefl; that is, iEsodaa.Bat al, .914 mepì 1 sd'rsías, to make, withGodfor fin. And fo alfo theyexprefs the perfon with aepi for whom theat- tonement is made. 'EEtndas:3aa ,ri ì were", syswr, 4vx7Is sutñ, Exsd. 3o. 13, 16. I i i i 3 Levit.
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