Ver.4. Thefourth Ilerfe opened. 73 any thing in us. This alto would admit of a fair and found oonfiruiiion, but that there is more than ordinary evidence of the places being corrupted. For the Vulgar Latin , which as to the Pfàlrns was tranflated out of the LXX. renders thefe words, propter legem tuam ; for thy Laws fake ; which makes it evident, that that Tranflator reads the words tivtxa za vóNm ce, and not óvóx7&, as now we read. Now though this hath in its fell, no proper fenfe ( forforgiven[ is not bellowed for the Laws fake ) yet it difcovers the original of the whole mi. Hake. r1aì1 The Law, differs but in one letter from N11I1 that thou mai/i be feared ; by a miflake whereof this 'irexce vót.td for thy Law fake, crept into the Text. Nor doth this any thingcounrenance the corrupt figment of the novelty of the HebrewVowels and Accents; as though this difference might arife, from the LXX. ufing a copy that had none, that is before their invention, which might occation mitlakes and diffe- rences ; for this difference is in a Letter as well as the Vowel; ; and therefore there can be no colour for this conceit, unlefs We fay alto, that they had Copies of old with other '`onf- nants than thofe we now enjoy. Bellarmine in his Expofition of this place, endeavours to give countenanceunto the reading of the Vulgar Latin; for thy Lazes fake ; affirming that by the Law here, not the Law of our Obedience, is intended; but the Law or Order of Gods dealing with us ; that is his ,tilercy and Eaithfulneß; which is a sneer new Invention to countenance an old error, which any tolerable ingenuity would have confeired, rather than have jut ufied by fo lorry a pretence. For neither is that expreffion, or that word, ever ufed in the fenfe here by him faigned, norcan it have any fuch lignitication. Hierom renders there words, utfis terribilit; that thou maid be dreadful or terrible, doubtlefs not according to the intend- ment of the place. It is for the relieving ofthe foul, and not for the increafing of its dread and terror, that this obfervation is made; there it forgivenefs with thee. But the words areckar,and their fenfe is obvious; H11í . Wet therefore thou(halt befeared, or that thou maifl be feared. By theFear of the Lord, in the Old Testament , the whole lr Worjhip
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