GENERAL INDEX OF MATTERS.
Abarbanel, Commentary of, when composed, 462. Its character, 462 -464. Abulpharagius, Gregory, account of him and of his writings, 518 s. Why the time when he lived was peculiarly interesting, 519. The valuable libraries from which he obtained the materials of his His- tory, ib. The three parts of which it consists, 518. His assertion, in regard to the Syriac Version of the Old Testament, 505. When and why he composed an abridgment of his History, in Arabic, ib. The time occupied in making this abridgment, ib. The manuscript copy of the original work, in the Vatican, used by Asseman, 519. Why a copy of it for the Universi- ty of Göttingen, proposed by Ba- ron von Münchhaussen, was not obtained, 519, 520. The printing of the entire work proposed by Prof. Bruns, 520. Where he made his MS. copy of the work, ib. (See Bruns.) Edw. Pococke's edition of the Arabic abridgment, 518. Sce Pococke.
Eneas, landing of, in Italy, 159 s. Aeons, of the Gnostics, writers who
heretics, and why, 289. Case of, considered, 349. Alexandrian Christians, their admira- tion of the Apocrypha, 31. 33. Alexandrian Version; See Septua- gint.
Amos, his prophecy ix. 11 s. consider- ed, 199. 200. See Minor Prophets. Angels, ministry of, 268. Whether they were worshipped by the Es- senes, 355. 356. Antiochus Epiphanes, his intolerant edict, 41. Apamaca, 167. Apocalypse, difference of its style from that of the other writings of St. John, 373. Apocalypse of Elijah, cited by St. Paul, 31.
Apocrypha, when added to the Greek Bible, 32 Some of them, in a translation, very early in the hands of the Egyptian Jews, 48. Why translated into Latin at an early period, 33 Cited by St. Paul, 31. Not cited by Philo, 59. What books are to be so called, in the opinion of Josephus, 75. Not al- lowed to be read in public, 35. Canonical authority attributed to them by Councils, 33. Apocryphal, meaning of, 35 s.
Alexander, not to be classed among Apostles, make a distinction between
Canonical and Apocryphal writ- ings, 32. Unlearned men, 389. Apostolic Fathers, and the Apostles and Ecclesiastical Writers, repre- sented as making no distinction between various pseudepigraphs, and the canonical books of the O. T., 31.
Aquila, character of his Version of Isaiah, 411 s.
Arabic Language, the vernacular lan- guage of some Jews under the Sa- racens, 486. Compared with the Hebrew, 493. Its illustrations of Hebrew, fewer than those derived from the Syriac, 495. Used in il- lustrating the Greek of the New Testament, 498.
Versions, why useful, 510. Necessary at an early date, ib. Versions of the Psalms, notice of, 509.
Version of the Prophets, in the London and Paris Polyglots, found- ed on the Alexandrian, 439.
Version of Job, made from
the Syriac, 509.
Version of Saadias, notice of, Follows Jewish interpreta- 433. Its characteristics,
434 ss. Aramaean Language, when spoken by Jews, as their vernacular lan- guage, 495. Spoken by Christ and the Apostles, 497. Nearly allied to Hebrew, 493. Its influence on Hebrew, 495. Aristeas, his account of the Septua- gint Version, 47 s. See Septua- gint.
Arnold, his opinion respecting the Gnostics, 278.
Artaxerxes Longimanus, why Jose-
phus closes the Canon of the O. T. with his reign, 68.
Asseman, J. S., his Oriental Library commended, 487, 516. 521.
tyrs valuable, 516. His translation of Ephrem censured, ib. Assumption of Moses cited by St. Jude, 31.
Augusti, J. C. W., character of his Handbuch des A. T., 474.. Of his translation of Isaiah, 476. Augustine, character of his Doctrina Christiana, 7.
Aurivillius, character of, as an inter- preter of Isaiah, 479. Authenticity, of the Books of the Old Testament, 21 ss. Evidences of it, 24 s.
Bambyce; See Mabog.
Barhebraeus, Gregory, see Abulphara- gius.
Baruch, held a place in the Canon of Origen, 88.
Buer, G. C., notice of his Scholia, 474.
Bava Bathra, see Talmud. Bayle, blunders of, relative to Bo- chart, 122 149.
Bible, Introductions to; See Intro- ductions.
Versions of; See Arabic, Sy- riac, &c.
Polyglot: See Polyglot. Bochart, his birth, 110. Ancestry, Education 10 ss. Character, 140. Acquirements, 141. Person, 139. Controversy with De la Barre, 130 s. Correspondence with Morley, 121 s. Dispute with Veron, 115 ss. Journey to Swe- den, 124. Visit to England, 113. Settles at Caen, 114. Publishes his Sacred Geography, 119 s. In- vited to Leyden, 121. Sermons on Genesis, 118 s. Minor Writ- ings, 136, 158 ss. Plan of a Scrip ture Natural History, 158. Merits as a writer, 160 ss. Difficulties caused by the death and removal of his colleagues, 132 s. His death, 137 s.
S. E., his Acts of the Mar- Bomberg, Daniel, first introduced the
present division of the Books of Scripture, in his edition of the Hebrew Bible, 88. Bossuet, suppresses Simon's History of the Old Testament, 9. Bourdelat, physician to Christina, Queen of Sweden, 125 s. Brucker, his theory in regard to the Gnostics, 279 His definition of their Eong, 354
Bruns, his discovery of the Chronicle of Barhebraeus in the Oxford Li- brary, 520. His publication of a specimen of it, ib. And proposed edition of the entire work, ib Brynacus, corrects errors of Bochart, 167.
Büsching, his use of Syriac works in his Des ription of Asia, 525. His Geography translated into English,
Caen, literary society and academy of, 129.
Calmet, notice of his Commentary, 472.
ducees and Samaritans, 60 s That of the Therapeutae, ib. The Epistle of Jeremiah never a part of it, 89. See Josephus, Origen, Melito, Philo. Canonical, meaning of the word, 34. The same as inspired, 35. Carpzov, character of his Introduction to the Old Testament, 10. Castell, his Hebrew Lexicon the best extant, 491. His Chaldee Lexicon, when and where published, 532. Aided in its execution by Bishop Beveridge, ib. See Michaelis, J. D. Celene or Apamaea, 167. Cellarius, his views more correct than
those of Bochart, 524. Less valued than Bochart, in Germany, ib. Chaldaisms, ahound in Jeremiah and Ezechiel, 21.
Chaldee Language, our reading in it limited, 489. When the authors, extant in it, wrote, ib. How foreign words were introduced into it, ib. More used than Syriac, in illustra- ting Hebrew, 485.
Chrestomathies, Syriac, notices of the best, 532 s.
Calvin, character of his Commentary Charenton, decree of the Synod of, on Isaiah, 466 s. Canon, the acceptation of the word among early Ecclesiastical Writers, 34 s. 37 Consequences resulting from its unsettled meaning, 37. Why the word ought not to have been used in reference to the O. T., 36. Determination of its mean- ing, 38 s. Closed by the Jews un- der Artaxerxes Longimanus, 68. Of what it consisted in the time of Christ and the Apostles, 95 Settied after the Babylonian Captivity, 96 Contains the books of our pre- sent Bibles, 96 The Jews of Egypt are sources of information concern- it, 42 s The Jews of Palestine also, 60 ss. Of the Egyptian and Palestine Canon in general, 39 s. Are one and the same, 41 ss. Whence this results, 42. The Ca- non of Philo. 59. That of the Sad-
Christ, his sufferings before he enter- ed on his kingdom, much insisted on by himself and his apostles, 176 -178. In what respect he suc- ceeded to David's place, 198. His proof of the Resurrection, 62. His discourse on pride and offending, 502. The passage of Isaiah xxv. 6-8. interpreted of him, 513 s. His vernacular language, 497. See Chur h of Christ. Christians; See Egyptian. Chronicles, the two books were only one at first, 87. Closed the Canon of the O. T., 70. They are not mentioned by Philo, 58. No di- rect quotation from them in the N. T., 102. Are used by Josephus, 80. Are found in the Canon of
Melito,, 84. Of Origen, 87. Jerome, 91. And of the Talmud, 94.
Church of Christ, its nature and pro- gress, 235.
Citations, see Quotations.
Clement of Alexandria, his testimony as to the period when the Gnostic heresy prevailed, 282. Thoroughly skilled in Oriental learning, 283. Character given to him by Euse- bius, 305. His silence respecting the Oriental philosophy, ib. Clement of Rome, cites the spurious Ezechiel, 31.
Cocceius, character of, as a critic, 469. 491. His Hebrew Lexicon next in value to that of Castell, 491. His translation of Isaiah, 1. 22. ib. Colossians, Epistle to, scope and meaning of the first two chapters of, 322-344.
Conjecture, Bochart charged with an excess in the use of it, 164. J. D. Michaelis' conjectural reading of Deut. VIII. 3. 16. And of Isaiah XXV. 7. 512 s.
David, the epithets applied to him by Philo, 56 s. Inferiority of his go- vernment to that of Christ, 201. De Dieu, Louis, character of his me- thod of exposition, 467 s. Death, differently depicted by diffe- rent nations, 498 See Taste of Death
Dereser, notice of his translation of Isaiah 477.
Descent, of Christ into hell, Bochart on, 160. 168. Deuteronomy, the
epithet applied to it by Philo, 55. See Moses. Diffusiveness, Bochart not to be charg- ed with, 160.
Döderlein, J C., notice of his Latin
Version of Isaiah, 477.
Eastern, what nations were so called by the Hebrews, 278.
Context, use of, in interpretation of Eßgalwv Biß, what is to be under- Parables, 241.
Critici Sacri, comparison between it Ecclesiastes, not cited by Josephus nor
and Poole's Synopsis, 468
Criticism, of the O. and N. Testament, how divided, 4. Questions relat- ing to the Old Testament brought into view by Higher Criticism, 11. Questions relating to the New Test, 13 The use of Higher Criticism, 26 s.
Cyril of Alexandria, character of his Commentary on Isaiah, 449. Year of his death, ib
Daniel, his Book originally in sepa- rate treatises, 26. And in different dialects, ib. The Jews have diffe- rent opinions of its value and au- thority, 30. Not mentioned by Philo, 58. No direct quotation from it in the N. T.. 102. In the
Philo, 59. 81 But by Melito, Ori- gen and Jerome, 84. 87.91 Ecclesiastical History, receives im- portant accessions from Syriac li. terature, 521.
Edessa, Jacob of, see Jacob. Egyptian Christians, their opinions on the Canon, 46.
Jews, held the Apocrypha in no repute, 46. Had the same Canon as the Palestine Jews, 41 ss. See Canon.
Eichhorn, opinion of, as to the period
when Jonathan Ben Uzziel lived, 413. His theory in regard to the writings of Isaiah, 476. His Trea- tise on the Canon of the O. T., 17 -104. Account of its first publi-
cation, 19. Four editions of his Introduction, ib. His opinion on the use of the Paragogic Nun of the Preterit, 494.
Eleazar, whether he sent to Egypt a
Hebrew MS. for forming the Sep- tuagint Version, 47.
Enock, Books of, cited by St. Jude,
Episcopacy, Bochart's letter on, 122. Epistle of Aristeas; See Septuagint.
Jerome, 91. And of the Talmud, 94. The Syriac Version accords with the Greek more frequently in this, than in the other books of the O. T., 506.
Ezra, not cited in the New Testament, 64, 102. Cited by Philo, 55. Used by Josephus, 80. In the Canon of Melito, 84. Of Origen, 87. Of Jerome, 91. And of the Talmud, 94.
Classification of, 219 s. Nature of, 223.. Use of, proper, 219. 221. Utility of, 232 s. Fathers, after Origen's time, until the
Ephrem Syrus, when, where, and by Fables, how different from parables, whom his Works were published, 516. 487. S. E. Asseman's Latin translation of them censured, 516. Commended in lofty terms by Greeks, Latins, Copts and Arme- pians, 527. Entitled by the Sy- rians Master of the World, ib. His mode of interpretation illustrated by examples, 527 s. Comments on the Syriac Version, and not on the original text, 527. Character as a Commentator, 527. 454 s. Character of his Commentary on the Syriac Version of Isaiah, 454 s. Quotes Rev. of St. John, 523. Essenes, had sacred books, 60. Whe- ther they worshipped angels, 335 s. Esther, is not held in the same repute by all Jews, 30.
fifth century, almost entirely igno- rant of the Hebrew text, 446 s. Their opinion on the number of the Books of the O. T., 70 s. And on the sacred books of the Saddu- cees, pha, 31. Firmilian, testimony of, as to the date of the Gnostic heresy, 286 s. Forerius, notice of his Commentary on Isaiah, 467.
60 s. And on the Apocry-
Fox and Grapes, fable of, 227. Franciscan Friar, anecdote of, 133. Future Paragogic, more common in Arabic than in Hebrew, 493.
Ethiopians, their division of the books Gabriel Sionița; see Sionita. of the Old Testament 89. Etymological interpretation, Bochart's overweening attachment to, 165. Eunapius, what he means by Chal- daic philosophy, 310 s. Eusebius, his Ὑπομνήματα εἰς Ἡσαΐαν
first published by Montfauçon, 447. Character of this work, 447-449. Exodus, the epithet applied to it by Philo, 55.
Ezechiel, abounds in Chaldaisms, 21.
Not certainly included in the Canon of Philo, 59. Not cited in the N. T., 102. Found in the Canon of Josephus, 71. 77. And of Melito, 84. And of Origen, 87. And of
Gamaliel, Rabbi, his proof of the re- surrection of the dead, 62. Gems, of Scripture, 158. Genesis; see Moses. Geography, derives important aid from Syriac learning, 524. Geographi- cal tables of the Monophysite and Nestorian Sees and Monasteries, ib. Bochart's errors in, ib. And. those of Cellarius, ib. See Mabog. Gesenius, W., his History of Intro-
ductions to the Scriptures, 1—15. And his History of the Interpreta- tion of the prophet Isaiah, 401- 479. His criticism on the Hiero- zoicon of Bochart, 156.
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