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JOH, FRID. HOMBERGK TZU Bach Juris in Acad. Marburg. Profefforis, Parerga Sacra, feu Obfervationes quædam ad novum Teftamentum Domini Noftri JESU CHRISTI. Traje &ti ad Rhenum, ex Officina Gulielmi vande Water, Typographi Academia M DCC XII.

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OBSERVATIONS upon the New Teftament by JOHN FREDERICK HOмBERGK TZU BACH, Profeffor of Civil Law in the University of Marpurg, Utrecht. 1712. in 4to. Pagg. 366. Sold by Paul Vaillant in the Strand.

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E have now a vaft Collection of various Readings upon the New Teftament; and it were to be wished that fome Modeft and Judicious Criticks would make use of them, to clear feveral obfcure and difficult Paffages. None but a Man of great Şagacity can fucceed in fuch an Attempt. The LearnCc 3

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d Author of these Obfervations does feldom mention any various Reading; and his Notes are not fo critical as thofe of Grotius, and fome other Interpreters. He compares all along the Greek Text with the Latin Tranflation of Beza, and rectifies the latter, when he thinks it does not exprefs the true Senfe of the Original. He illuftrates many Paffages by the Greek and Latin. Authors, and ought to be commended for his Learned Performance. Here fol low fome of his Obfervations.

Mark V. 25, 26. And a certain Woman, which bad an iffue of Blood twelve Years, and had fuffered many Things of many Phyficians, morda zadire voo Today larger, and bad spent all that she bad, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, &c,

M. Homberg does not believe, that the Greek Words, which I have inferted in this Paffage, are rightly tranflated. How could that Woman (fays he) Suffer many Things of the Phyficians? unless it be fuppofed that fhe was lanced and cauterized in feveral Parts of her Body; which is highly improbable. Did the fall into the Hands of uncharitable Quacks, who made her worse than fhe was, and at the fame time very poor? This cannot be the Senfe of the Paffage. The Evangelift means, that the Woman mentioned in this Verfe, confulted many Phyficians, who prefcribed fo many Remedies, that she fpent all that he had, without being the better for it. Thofe (continues the Author) who know the fe th veral Significations of the Word dyw, will eafily grant, that this is the true Senfe of that Paffage; and therefore the Words fhould be rendered, and had been under the Cure of many Phyficians, &c.

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In order to remove the Difficulty contained in this Verle, the Author affirms that the Words is SOUTON ought to be joined with 6xй TO, and that the Paffage ought to be tranflated thus: But the Pha rifees and Lawyers rejected the Will of God towards them..

Jude v. 12. Thefe are Spots in your Feafts of Charity, is dydrous www, when they feaft with you, feeding themselves without fear.

2 Pér II. 13. Spots they are and Blemishes, fporting themselves with their own Deceivings, ἐντρυφῶντες ἐν τ' απάταις αὐτ, while they feaf with you.

Our Author tells us upon this Paffage of St. Jude's Epiftle, That he does not doubt in the leaft but the Words & LaTous auf, in their own Deceivings, in the 2d Epiftle of St. Peter, Chap. II. v. 13. are a Corruption, and that it fhould be yous · ἀγάπαις ch, in your Feasts of Charity, as we read in St. Jude's Epiftle.

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PERVIGILIUM VENERIS, ex Editione Petri Pithoei, cum ejus & Jufti Lipfii Notis; itemque ex alio Codice antiquo, cum Notis Cl. Salmafii & Pet. Scriverii. Acceffit ad hæc Andr. Rivini Commentarius. Aufonii CuPIDO CRUCI A DFIXUS, Notis Mariang. Accurfii, El. Vineti, Pet! Scriverii & Anonymi. Acceffere ad calcem Jof. Scaligeri & Cafp. Barthii Animadverfiones. Hage Comitum apud Henricum Scheurleer, M DCC XII,

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A NEW Edition of the PERVIGILIUM VENERIS, and of Aufonius's CUPID CRUCIFIED, with the Notes of feveral Learned Men upon those two Poems. Hague 1712. in 8vo. Pagg. 208. Sold by J. Moetjens and M. C. Le Cene in thẹ Strand.

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HE Poem, entituled Pervigilium Veneris, is an Elegant Description of the Spring, and of the great Power of Venus in that Seafon of the Year, written by an ancient Author unknown to us," upon Occafion of the Feftival of that Goddess. Peter Pitbou (Pithoeus) was the firft, who published that Piece from a very faulty Manufcript. Lipfius †, Douza the Son, and John Weitzius undertook to mend it, but with little Succefs for want of a bet ter Copy. Salmafius having found a more correct Copy of that Ingenious Poem, Scriverius reprinted it with his own Notes, and thofe of Salmafius and others, in a Collection of feveral Pieces entituled Baudii Amores,

That Poem has been printed twice in this Vo lume: First, with the Notes of Pithoeus and Lipfius and then from Scriverius's Edition, with the Remarks of that Author and Salmafius, and fome select Annotations of Weitzius. In the Year 1644. Andreas Rivinus, Profeffor of Philology at Leipfick, published a large Commentary upon the Pervigilium Veneris : That Commentary has been inferted here, to ren; der this new Edition more complete.

II. Cupid and his Mother Venus have afforded the Ancients a thousand agreeable Fictions. The Poem of Aufonius, entituled Cupid crucified, runs upon a very ingenious Fancy. That Poet faw a Picture 4

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† Elector. Lib. I. c. 5.

+ Cupidinem cruci adfigunt (in pictura) muli eres amatrices, non ifta de noftro fæculo qua fponte peccant, fed illæ Heroicæ, quæ fibi ignofcunt, & plectunt Deum, Aufonius in bis Preface t this Poem.

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