This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1767 Excerpt: ...country, which prohibition is not to be found, vi. 25. They order widows to stay at home, to be grave, etc. and then they censure those who ramble about, and are busy bodies, and idle talkers, and call them prj %igyg, -'aa- arrf, not widows nvidows, but beggars wallets, irol(ing tk To XapC, ctvnv, ever ready to receive ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1767 Excerpt: ...country, which prohibition is not to be found, vi. 25. They order widows to stay at home, to be grave, etc. and then they censure those who ramble about, and are busy bodies, and idle talkers, and call them prj %igyg, -'aa- arrf, not widows nvidows, but beggars wallets, irol(ing tk To XapC, ctvnv, ever ready to receive. But the beauty of the original is lost in the translation, because the words are nearly alike in sound, and different in fense: so that the jingle cannot be preserved. It is as if we should say in English; such widows behave themselves not godly, but odly. Hi. 6. They fay that a rich covetous man is like a dragon guarding a treasure, which emblem is borrowed from those profane authors whom they forbid Christians to read, iv: 4. Vulpis cubile fodiens, dum terram eruit, --Pervenit ad draconis fpeluncam ultimam, Cujlodiebat qui thesauros abditos. Phaedrus iv. 19. Largiris nihil, incubafque gaz, Ut magnm draco, quern canunt po'et Cujlodem Scytbici fuiJJ'e luci. Martial, xii. 53. They teach the resurrection of the same numerical body, a doctrine concerning which the Scriptures are certainly silent, v. 7. They are Heretics, fay they, who make the Father, Son, and holy Spirit to be one and the fame person, and Jesus to be r Wi wcirjav Bew. This is supposed to be levelled against Simon Magus, but it is much more probable that it is against the Sabellians. vi. 26. Having ordered Christians to honour the martyrs, they caution them not to honour false martyrs. If by djhpaflvpt they only meant persons who perjured themselves and bare false M 4 witness, witness, as their citations may seem to imply, the caution was extremely ridiculous: but it is more probable that they meant either schismatics, or unfortunate men, mistaken in som..
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