Moses and Aaron. Ciuil and ecclesiastical rites, vsed by the ancient Hebrewes; obserued, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture. Herein likevvise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people: and that many heathenish customes, originally haue beene vnwarrantable imitations of the Hebrewes. By Thomas Godwyn, B.D.
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Moses and Aaron. Ciuil and ecclesiastical rites, vsed by the ancient Hebrewes; obserued, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture. Herein likevvise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people: and that many heathenish customes, originally haue beene vnwarrantable imitations of the Hebrewes. By Thomas Godwyn, B.D.
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Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 7-1642.
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London :: Printed by Iohn Haviland,
1625.
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Judaism -- Works to 1900.
Jews -- Early works to 1800.
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"Moses and Aaron. Ciuil and ecclesiastical rites, vsed by the ancient Hebrewes; obserued, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture. Herein likevvise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people: and that many heathenish customes, originally haue beene vnwarrantable imitations of the Hebrewes. By Thomas Godwyn, B.D." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01814.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2024.
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Their gold coines.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉Zahab. The English reades it, A peece of
gold, 2 King. 5. 5. By it is meant, that which
elsewhere is called Siclus auri, A Shekel of gold,
1 Chron. 21. 25. Hence the one thousand seuen
hundred peeces of gold mentioned, Iudg. 8. 26.
The Greeke renders 1700.uShekels of gold.x The weight of this coine was two Atti••∣drams,
the value 15 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉Adarcon, of this we reade, Esr. 8. 27.
It was also called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉Drakmon, of which
we reade, Esr. 2. 69. Both these names seeme
to denote the same coine, if not, yet both were
of the same weight. The Greeke interprets
them both by 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and our English accor∣dingly
renders both A Dram: which must bee
vnderstood of the drams in vse among the He∣brews,
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weighing two Attick drams. From the
Greeke〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Drakmon seemeth to haue had its
name.y Hee coniectureth not amisse, who
thinketh that Adarcon was so called, quasi Dari∣con,
which was a certaine coine of gold in vse
among the Persians, and from King Darius
(whose image one side thereof bore) was na∣med
Daricon, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 amongst the Chaldeans, i••
often prefixed before a word, as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is amongst
the Hebrews. The value of this coine was of
ours 15. ••.
Notes
u
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c.