Annotations on Chap. I.
[ a] * 1.1 V 11 By the meanes of many persons] The Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is ordinarily parallel and proportionable to the Hebrew 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 facies, which coming from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 respexit, signifies oftentimes respectus, and so 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 de facie, signifies for, or in respect of; and agreeable thereto, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, of, or from, many faces, here signifies in respect of many, in relation to many, for the sa••es of many, or in any of those formes of speech by which 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 would be rendred.
[ b] * 1.2 V. 17. Yea yea, and nay nay] The meaning of yea, and nay, or of yea yea, and nay nay, is distinctly this, when we doe not agree, or are inconstant to ourselves, now yea, and an••n nay, in our words or actions. Whence is that old word naucus for a light or frivo∣lous person,* 1.3 from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as 'tis deduced by Festus. The difference of this from the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Jam. 5. 12. is cleared by the construction, Let your yea be yea, and your nay be nay, that is, let your words and actions accord; so that the second yea and the se∣cond nay is not joyned with the first, as here, but as the praedicate affirmed of it, whereas here the two yeas being all one (and so indeed express'd by a single yea v. 18.) are the Subject of the speech, and the two nayes, being all one again, the praedicate. To this agrees that proverb of the Jews, The just mans yea is yea, and his nay, nay. A third expression there is, that of Mat. 5. which is in sound very near this, and yet distant from it, Let your communication be yea yea, and nay nay, that is let there be no other language but this or the like, used by you, in opposition to the more licentious forms of oaths there mentioned.