: express the singular number, and Syr. is pointed so as to be singular. Chald. hath the same word as Heb. In ver. 28. the particle his seems to require the singular. But מלכי is never singular with a genitive after it, unless in מלכי צדק. But I think there are instances of a paragogic in that case in other words. Vignoles, Vol. ii. p. 656. thinks the plural may be put for the singular, as in other words of dominion; or that Cyrus and Astyages may be meant. Tomyris in Herodotus calls Cyrus king of the Medes; and Thucydides scarce ever calls the Persians any thing but Medes. [Supposing the kings of Media to mean the Persian monarchs, Cyrus and his successors may here be designed, who were all bent to oppress and humble Babylon. B. Β.] 39. יעלזו[ καρωθωσι, LXX. sopiantur, Vulg. Putat Grotius hic legisse LXX, Vulg. Chald. יעלו Confer Isa. li. 20. ubi de Judæis tanquam inebriatis ab ira Dei dicitur, התעלף עלפו שכבו deliquium notat, Amos viii. 13. Jon. iv. 8. Idemque, ut videtur, ערפה Ezek xxxi. 15. nec alibi occurrit hæc radix. 55. Perhaps, "Because JEHOVAH hath spoiled and destroyed Babylon, there is a great voice out of her; and their waves, &c." 56.] Perhaps, For JEHOVAH is a God of recompence, he will surely requite." 58.[ ויגעו וגו[ Extant eadem fere verba, Hab. ii. 13. nisi quod pro ריק ibi scriptum sit, et vice versa; et יעפו pro ויעפו 64. ויעפו[ Nec genere, nec numero, nec sensu, convenit ויעפו cum præcedentibus, et videtur post ætatem των LXX. ad oram libri ex fine ver. 58. scriptum, ut adjiceretur sequens notula. (Perhaps we should here read ויגעו from נגע, and connecting it with the following words, render, " And thus far reach the words of Jeremiah." It is possible the Transcriber may have observed both ויעפו and ויגעו in ver. 58. and thence have been led to write the wrong word. B. Β.] This chapter is not Jeremiah's. For the same history hath been already related by him. And it is marked at the end of the last Chapter, that his words extend only thus far. And ver. 31. that king of Judah is called Jehoiachin, as in the books of Kings and Chronicles, whom Jeremiah always elsewhere calls Jeconiah, or Coniah. THRENI. CHAP. III. 14. Non loquitur propheta, sed Judæus quivis, vel, judice Lowthio, chorus Judæorum, quos non est verisimile derisos fuisse a popularibus suis. Legendum igitur עמים, vel intelligendum עמי poni pro עמים, ut Ps. cxliv. 2. Mic. vi. 16. Et sic quidem hic Syr. Nec obstat quod idem filiam populi sui plorat, ver. 48. (But see my opinion of the person that speaks in the introductory Note of this Chapter. Β. Β.] CHAP. IV. 20. אפינו[ רוח .Ille (scil. princeps) est spiritus vitialis, quem hæc tot millia civium trahunt. Seneca. De Clementia, Lib. i. Cap. 4. |