f 78 je&, concur in imputing the Creation of the World to the WORD of the Deity; which Sentiment fo clofely correfponds with the Language of the Scriptures, that it is an Argument of its original Derivation from thofe, who knew the Truths of GOD by his divine Revela- tion. * The Jews, before the Advent of Chrifi, often expreffed themfelves very plainly upon this Subjef. Galatinus cites a Comment of R. Ifaac 1Írama upon the exth Pfalm, which is peculiarly explicit. " From the Womb of the Morning is the Dew of thy Birth. We do not find any Man, although a Prophet, whofe Birth is prædi6led before the Birth of his Father and Mother, excepting the Melah our Jul{ One; and therefore he fays, From the Womb of the Morning is the Dew of thy Birth. That is, thy Birth is foretold long before the Womb of her that bare thee was created. To this agrees what is faid in Pfalm lxxii. i 7. His NAME, the BE- GOTTEN or SoN, is before the Sun; which implies, that, before the Sun was created, the -f- NAME of our Mefiab fubfifted and was eftablifhed, and that He fate at the Right Hand of GOD." t Though there are much better Expofitions of the Text ; yet this is a Specimen of what the Rabbins § themfelves before Chr (de- clined as they were from the Purity of the Truth) af- ferted concerning his Nature and Dignity. Though JUST. MART. Pareen. ad Greece:. KIRCH. Obel. Pamph. 1. y. c. 3. Oedip. Sync. i. c. 7. GROTIUS de Ver. Rel. Chrìfl. 1. 1. § 16. n. 7. 1- In very antient Writers, the Word Name is often put for the Word Perfon, and carries that Idea. In the Scriptures it is fre. quently ufed for the Effence of GOD, and molt commonly for the Second Perfon in that Effence. 1 GAL. de Are. Cath. Ver. 1. iii. C: 17. § " The Notion Aoyos, Word, was not unknown to the antient ., yews. Frequent mention is made thereof in the Chaldaic 'Targum ., which terms it 7vr Kivu, the Wont) of JEHOVAH; by which thofe antient Paraphrafts underftood the Me /ah." GALE. Vol. i. 1. iii. p. 64. To this might be added Kircher's Remark upon 7onatban theChaldee, who, in his Jerufalem Targum tranflates Ma n+m17, ufually rendered, in ih$ beginnln,¡ (C:0 dì) created Y-_
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