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nifh us with abundance of useful reflections: but this Differtation, wherin I have endeavor'd that precifion fhou'd reign next to perfpicuity, is long enough already. I cou'd eafily inlarge it, efpecially in this latter part, wou'd I produce all the fhifts of the Commentators, each to serve his own hypothefis, concerning RAGUEL, JETHRO, and HO BAB. They come nearest the point, who make HOBA B to have been JETHRO's brother. But I fhall never temt the Reader's patience, where I have no profpect of inftructing him: befides that the main fubject of the Cloud's not being miraculous, can fuffer nothing from wrangling about names by thofe; who wou'd rather have any portion of the facred writings to pass for nonfenfe, than that I fhou'd demonftrate it to be fenfe. In this however lies my comfort, that the BIBLE will ever preferve its dignity; and that the TRUTH will triumph at laft, over all the prejudices of the ignorant or the interested.

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