Shibboleth, or, Observations of severall errors in the last translations of the English & French Bibles together with many other received opinions in the Protestant churches, which being weighed in the ballance are found too light / written by John Despagne ... ; and translated into English by Robert Codrington ...

Of the Sons of Saul whom the French Bi∣ble represents to have been crucified 2 Sam. 21.

IT hath been observed that this word the Cross is not found in the old Te∣stament, and even that the Hebrew tongue hath not any terme to signify that kind of punishment, which was unknown to the antient people of Is∣rael. The two and twentieth Psalm foretelling that kind of death which Christ should suffer, doth express it onely by a Periphrasis. They have ••eirced my hands and my feet. It is true that the Latin tongue doth give a more ••arge signification of this word the

Cross, But in our vulgar tongues it is onely taken for that kind of Executi∣on, in which they did nayl to the wood the hands and the feet of the Malefa∣ctor. And this cannot be said of the Sons of Saul. The Originall affirms that they were hanged by the Gabao∣nits, who demanded that they might be delivered to them to be hanged. This is the word of the text, which is also expressed in the English translation, In the place whereof, the French tran∣slation saith, that they were stretched forth on the Cross, And that the Ga∣baonits did demand them, to the end (say they) that we may stretch them forth on the Cross. But the word of the Cross, or the Crucifying is neither in that place, nor in any other of the old Testament, and therefore ought not to be in the translation.