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CHAPTER XI. Whether the Iewes might chuse Herod for their King or not?
DEVT. 17. 15. Thou mayst not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
THe Iewes distinguish those who were Gentiles both by father and mother, from those who were borne Iewes. Those who were strangers both by father and mother, they called them Bagbag, by a contraction, for Ben ger, and Ben gerah, that is, fili∣us* 1.1 proselyti & proselytae, and they were called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; but those who were Iewes both by father and mother, were called Hebraei ex Hebreaes, Phil. 3. 5. an Hebrew of an Hebrew, that is, both by father and mother they were Hebrewes, and they were called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
The Proselytes that were converted from Gentilisme* 1.2 to Iudaisme, were of two sorts; if they were newly con∣verted, they were called Gerim, which the Seventie translate 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; if they had dwelt long amongst* 1.3 them, then they were called Toshibhim, inquilini, and the Seventie translate them 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as yee would say, Pari∣shioners; such a stranger was Achir, Iudith 14. who be∣leeved in God and was circumcised.
Those Proselytes who were converted to the faith, and continued in the faith of their Pa••••nts, they were* 1.4 called [Goi gnikkere] Gentiles fundamentales, that is, Gen∣tiles who embraced the grounds o•• Religion, and these became [Ezrahhim] Indigenae.
These Proselytes although they were converted, yet* 1.5 they might not enter into the Congregation untill the