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The new Edition reads plurally ras fi^iests.For which Change there is no Authority, butthe Velefian Readings, the Vulgar, Syriack and.Æthiopick Versions. Grotins indeed approvesthe plural Reading. For, fays he, not one par-ticular Day, but a Course of Days is here spokenof. Which, with Submission to so great a Man,is begging the Question. He further stiews thata periodical Day is sometimes plurally expressed :And we know, that at other Times, the End ofa Course of Days is described singularly. SeeLev. viii. 33. u E<ws Tg “

vju.w. It is also singular in the Hebrew .Grotins says further, that the Hellenists do notalways call the last Day urer'mtosv, but often theentire fifty Days from the Passover . This, ifwell made out, would prove no more than thatthe new Reading was a plausible One. Buttruly the Testimony of Tfertiillian and the Councilof Nice are quite beside the Question. For theyonly attest to the Customs of Christians , where-as the Point is, in what Form the Jews expres-sed themselves, and whether by 7njv7»xo a T7 theyever meant more than one precise Day, she fif-tieth from the Passover . And I verily think allproper Evidence is for the Negative. ThusActs xx. 15. 'ujsviyx.agyi is the uncontro-

verted Reading, and 1 Cor. xvi. 8. Pentecost de-notes one precise Time. No Jewijb Vriter evertermed the Intermediate Days between this Festi-val and that of the Passover , the Days of Ten-