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SECT. III. Of the Hebrew.
THe knowledge of the Hebrew is useful in four respects;
I. To understand the Greek of the New Testament, because
1. There are many Hebrew words, both Proper Names, and Appellatives, in the New Testament. See Pasor's Lexicon in fine.
2. The New Testament is full of He∣braisms. Of which see Gataker against Pfochenius: and Beza on Act. 10.46.
The Apostles used Hebraisms (saith he) not only because they were Hebrews, but because when they discoursed of those things, which were written in He∣brew, it was needful to retain many, lest they should seem to bring in some new Doctrine. And I do not wonder they kept so many Hebraisms, when many of them are such as cannot be so happily expressed in any other Idiom: that, except they had retained those forms of Speech, they should have de∣vised sometimes new words, and new kinds of Speech, which no man had un∣derstood.See also Beza's Theol. Tract.