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vanced in his book against the Marcionites, d. III. p. 406. that "it is a name amongst the JEWS,” in his book against the Valentinians, p. 257. Cyprian alfo treats it as fuch in his book against the Jews, p. 402, 405, 406; as do Ignatius in the epistles ascribed to him, p. 96, 177. Barnabas's epifle 238. Ambrof. tom. I. p. 1147 and 1861. Bafil in his 25th Oration, tom. I. p. 589. &c. the writers in the Romish church; Mafius; Cornelius a Lapide, Beza on Mat. i. 2. and Heb. iv. 8. Grotius, on the fame paffage, afferts the fame; as does Drufius against those that deny it, in his notes on Sulpitius Severus's history, b. I. p. 102. Pafor affirms it to be derived from (y) Jeso, to fave; Schotanus in his Manual, and Leufden and Mercer on Pagninus under this word, Avenarius, Cocceius, Buxtorf, and Robertfon in his Hebrew and Greek Thefaurus, and Littleton, (a) and other Dictionary-writers under the word call it a HEBREW name: particularly Leigh in his Critica Sacra on the New Teftament fays, "It is a HEBREW word, "which the GREEKS had from the HEBREW, "and other languages from them ;" and again, "It is pure HEBREW, only pronounced after "the manner of the GREEKS." Broughton, p, 87, 18, 19, 197, &c. and Bishop Andrews

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(a) “ Others,” says he, under the word Jesus, "derive it " from the Greek laqual incoμal "to heal," [perperam] "wrongly, but with a good sense,"

gives the fame account of its original. Dr. Hammond's fentiments about it are not declared in his comment, nor Whitby's in his, unless we understand him in his very short note on the Word EMMANUEL thinking with Phile about it, who undoubtedly ufed the GREEK, JESUS, for a HEBREW name. But Hoornbeck, Limborch and many others, both foreigners and of our own nation, agree with the fathers, whose teftimonies will presently appear more ftrong concerning the original deduction of this name from the HEBREW. Nor is fuch a general concurrence herein to be wondered at, when we confider, that as its ufage in the version of the 70 for another name in the holy books they translated proves it not to be originally GREEK, fo does it prove that it is, what these books originally are, HEBREW; and that the apostles muft have understood it to be fuch, when they call by it the name of the person, who was known to be an HEBREW, and to have had a HEBREW name. Add to this, that, as it was viewed in this light by the fathers in their arguments against the Jews, and used by the 70 and an apoftle for an HEBREW word in GREEK characters, fo Philo, after the time of CHRIST, ufes this very name in like manner for a word confeffedly HEBREW, as we shall fee, and interprets it as fuch; which he would never have done, if it had not been as clear

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the hame was HEBREW, as it was that the perJon was fuch. But, to put this beyond all difpute, we read of CHRIST's faying in HEËREW, ANS xxvi. 14, "to SAUL, I am JESUS, &c." Indeed the JEWS readily acknowledge this, as a truth they would as much wonder at a man's denial of, as we do at their inbelief of the Perfon's divine miffion. Whence it is fome call him [v Jesuo] THE SAVIOR, however they difpute HIM to be in fact what they own the name fignifies (a). Hence, though the Jews at Avignon called our LORD SAAVE, (b) others again call Him []Jsu, altering the word. But a very angry (c) writer of theirs, fpeaking of the impofition of this name, as recorded by the evangelist, gives us the HEBREW he thought it to ftand for. So that there can be no doubt but that this name, though expreffed in like GREEK letters with the ufual termination [s] is HEBREW, and therefore fitly given in conjunction

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(a) In their prayer against idolaters and CHRISTIANS, beginning with [y] OLINU, &c. which has thefe words, (that they leave a blank for in their printed books) "Who bowing themselves da honor to what is vain and nought, and adore HIM [LA Jesuo] that is not a favior." (b) This word the reader doubtless fees comes very near to our English word, SAVE; for this, as well as fafe and fafety, comes not from the Latin "Jalvus" (which with falvatio and the English falvation and falve is derived from saLVE to draw off or deliver or fet free, as the learned Mr. Parkhurst obferves) but from the Greek [aw] SAO, the old root of ww and σωσω "to fave" and fo mediately from [šao] fave, or else, which I think as likely, directly from it. (The author of Toldoth JESÚ,

junction with the GREEK name, CHRIST, to HIM, who was an HEBREW as well as the Gob of the HEBREWS, and was about to join the two people, the JEWS or HEBREWS and the GENTILES OF GREEKS in one body, according to the SS, as here both languages, in His joint title, JESUS CHRIST,

The next step then is to enquire what HEBREW name the GREEK ftands for. That it was a most excellent and divine name which was to be in KING MESSIAH, the ANGEL that was to come fuddenly to the temple of his body, is clear from Ex. xxxii. 34. Pf. lxxii. 17. lxxxix. 25. xci. 9. Zec, xii., 8. Mal. iii. 1. even THE NAME Jeнovaн Pf. xxiii. 1. that was wont, as promifed, to dwell (in the fymbol of His presence, which the JEWS hence called SHеCHINGH OF INDWELLING GLORY, referred to Gen. iii. 24.) in the typic fojourning tabernacle in the wilderness, (which went into captivity, 1 S. iv. 11. and was brought up again by [DAVID] THE BELOVED,) and alfo afterwards in the raised or built up glorious temple 2 S. vi. 2. the GREAT, the WONDERFUL, the HOLY NAME, PJ. xcix. 3. cii. 15. whom all the world was to worship, fing of and praife, lxvi. 3. the FEARFUL and GLORIOUS NAME, the LORD their GOD, Deut. xxviii. 58. And this the Jews muft confefs. For they understand the ANGEL in Ex. xxiii. 20. f. lxiii. 9. of the MESSIAH.

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But of this ANGEL it is faid, MY NAME (a) Therefore it was to be in the MESSIAH. Now that fuch NAME was in the true tabernacle, the body of our LORD, while fojourning in the world and tabernacling among t us, (according to Ex. xxix. 45. Lev. xvi. compared with John i. 14.) and in the true temple, his body, when raised up a like glorious body, Phil. iii. 21, and given to HIM as the NAME above every name, c. ii. is affirmed of HIM in the New Testament, after evident proofs of His greatness, wonderfulness, and holiness, and may serve to shew the Jews what He is proposed to be, whom they refufe. The GREEK word must therefore ftand for fome very excellent HEBREW name, which fhould have this bigh diftinction. Nor need we be long in fufpense about it. For that the word does not ftand for, and is not compounded, as Ofiander fancied, of [JOD] for Jeнovaн, and [w AISH] man, to import HIM to be GoD-man wants little proof. There is no fuch HEBREW word, nor an instance of this method of compofition.

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(a) Which they allow to be a diftinct PERSON, though one with Jehovah, faying " Before the world was the bleffed Gop "only, and His NAME," R. Eliezer in Capitulis: and we have a proof they make this the fame with GoD in these words, [10 171 IN 1]. "His NAME is HE, (the very Es SENCE) and HE His NAME, which R. Eliezer c. 3 calls the NAME of the MESSIAH, one of the feven things there were before the world,

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