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Mountain from whence the Law was given, aCircumstance so constantly celebrated in the Re-hearsal of that Transaction, * and yet in the lat-ter Branch of the Antithesis , should particularlymention Mount Sion, from whence we cannotstrictly say the Gospel was first published. Eitherwe must allow of this Reasoning, or establish theContrary into a ‘Principle , that such Lections asstrengthen Antitheses are to be rejected. Butthis would be unreasonable in its self, and highlyinjurious to the Credit of the Sacred Writings.Besides, Dr. Mills , on other Occasions, judges bythe contrary Maxim, rejecting some Readingsmerely because they weaken such Oppositions , seeProl. 1065, on 1 Cor. vii. 8. and Prol. 1210, on1 John v. 10. Once more ’’Open is necessary tothe Sentence, that the two Participles may havea Substantive to agree with : For though accord-ing to Grammar , there may be Concord betweenthem and irvst t yet the Apostle could hardly de-sign it, because he plainly borrows here fromFJeut. iv. xi. where the Words are % <n) oefi*eystiSTo Trust, so that ioe^vsi’M Trust, does not illthe Passage before us signify burning Fire butas our own Translators have rendred it, thatlurneth with Fire, and consequently og« mustnecessarily have preceded in the Original Text.The new Translator supposes to be

used substantively and accordingly renders thus,

* Lent . iv. 11. According to the LXX, Moses writes thus.

Ksti is(t.mih'isvri x} i 7 i ogcj To VL-; indtiro TtVPi

tk xfava shot (Or yvo<B@- sj Sve Ma.. From these Words ’tisevident the Apostle borrowed his Diction in the Place beforeus, and therefore it is utterly unlikely he would leave outthe only Word that is twice repeated therein.