&c. Metodus Prefcribendi, 482 School Inftruction, Q Q 158 UAKERS. See WOLSTEN HOLME. -Ht. of Anatomy, ib. QEEN of Denmark's Account of REVIEW of the Senators, a Poem, TOILET of Flora, P P. 47 ATULLCON the Cultivation of Lands Bengal, 152: the Revolution, &c. R. R 244 EFLECTIONS on the Fate of the Clergy's Petition, 296 on the Negro Cause, 152 150 TOUR of Holland, &c. 156 61 Part II. 240 TOUPE-Cura Pofteriores, &c. in of Welley's Doctrines, 159 Theocritum, &c. 159 RICCOBONI'S Letters, 8 ROSE, a Comic Opera, 486 TOWGOOD's Answer to the Enquiry, "Why are you a Dissenter?" &c. -401 490 TRANSACTIONS of the American RUSSEL on Painting with Crayons, 326 RUSSEL's Fables, 239 Philofophical Society, 333 TUTOR and Book-keeper's Guide in Accounts, 158 V 324 V. ALPY's Poetical Blossoms, 408 VIEW of Revealed Religion, 326 VORTIGERN Crancoc's Trifles, 107 57 73 330 W. dious, by 146 80, 331 Treatise on the Trinity, SERVANT'S Book of Knowledge, ib. 490 WASTE LANDS. See ADVAN SHAMROCK; or, Hibernian Creftes, 484 WENSIEY Dale, a Poem, 141 SHARPE'S Sermons, 231 SIR Amorous Whimsy, WESLE'S Remarks on Hill, 395 324 WHITCHURCH on Education, 153 SKETCH of the Secret History of WHITEIELD'S Works, 79 Europe, 323 Life, 247 SMITH'S Letter to Cadogan, 483 WHITELICKE'S Journal, 14 WHITTYS Sermons, 33 STENNET'S Account of the Diffenter's Application, WILLIAM on the Waters of Aix 251 SULLIVAN'S Lectures on the Laws of England concluded, 38 SYSTEM Of Pleading, 488 т. la-Chaplle and Borfet, WILLIAM'S Address to Gentlemen of al Denominations, 476 WILSON's 'ublication of Pemberton's Chenical Lectures, 404 72 WOLLASTON's Address to the 327 Third Check to Antinomianism, State of the Game, TEMPLE'S Three Sermons, 395 THEATRICAL Review, 245 160 THOUGHTS on the Dangers from 251 THRELFAL on the Epilepfy, 483 Clergy, &. 473 WOLSTENHOLME on Quaker's 162 CONTENTS THE MONTHLY REVIEW, For JULY, 1772. : the ART.I. A fourth and fifth Chapter of Genesis, translated from original Hebrew; with marginal Illustrations, and Notes critical and explanatory. By Abraham Dawson, M. A. Rector of Ringsfield, Suffolk. 4to. 3s. Cadell, &c. 1772. S EVERAL years ago this Author published a critical account of the three first chapters of Genefis * ; he has executed the present tranflation upon the same plan, which he tells us he has seen no reason to alter. The strict attention and care which had been bestowed upon the tormer publication, appear, likewise to have been observed in regard to this performance; and the Writer still finds, as he had before done, several occafions to differ from our common English version: some instances of which we shall proceed to lay before our Readers : • Ch. iv. 3. And Jehovah faid 'Hast not made a prounto Cain, "Why art thou wroth, per diftinction-hast not feand why is thy countenance fallen? lected the best of thy subThough thou hast done right in of- ftance. fering, yet as thou hast not done thyself. right in dividing, baft thou not fin ned? Be ftill: for to thee thall he be in subjection, and shalt thou rule over him?יי 2 Be quiet: - compose Mr. Dawson endeavours, in the notes, to justify and fupport his tranflation: the first part of his reasoning upon this passage we shall give in his own words : 3. Though (am) thou hast done right in offering, yet as (ou am) thou hast not done right in dividing, haft thou not finned? be still:"-fo Sept. 8x εαν ορθως προσενέγκης ορθως δε μη διελης ημαρτες; ησυχασον. -This is so natural and commodious a sense of the passage, and more agreeable to the ori • Vid. Rev. Oct. 1763. VOL. XLVII. B ginal ginal than any other I have met with, that it hath often been matter of wonder to me that commentaters should have perplexed their selves and tortured the words so much to find out other meanings. Engl. has rendered fath-shalt thou not be accepted? Margin-shalt thou not have the excellency? so Le Clerc-dignitatem tueberis. But there is nothing in the original to answer to the words-shalt thou be-shalt thou have-in Engl. or to-tueberis in Le Clerc: accordingly Le Clerc will have theffinr or fome such word to be understood. How harsh and forced construction is this? but now by supposing fath to be the infinitive of nfsa the construction is easy-Though thou halt done right in offering (in bringing thy gift)-: nor has Le Clerc any thing to object to this rendering, except it be his bare unsupported affertion that " na never fignifies in the Old Testament-to offer;"--whereas among the various fignifications of this word that of bringing to God, presenting offerings, is affigned by all lexicographers as one; and accordingly the verbal noun, mffith, denotes gifts, presents, oblations, messes of meat sent as presents,-Ezek. xx. 31. bath mthnthichm-when you offer your gifts, -40. mffaouthichm-of your oblations-and which is still more directly to our purpose, Chron. xvi. 29. we find this word joined with-mne-Jaou mne-bring a gift, an offering But as to that part of the verse which this Author renders, " in dividing"-lphthe-he acknowledges there is fome difficulty. Among several other observations (for the whole note is too long for us to transcribe) he remarks, - I am inclined to suspect the original reading to have been-phle, phlth, phltheI might easily be transposed, and e changed into è from the word immediately following; and as I is not prefixed to Jath this helps to confirm my conjecture of its making part of the root in this word, and having undergone a transposition. Phle, of the fame import with phla, fignifies-to divide, to separate, to select as excellent and best of the kind, to make an honourable distinction, &c. Sept. might very well render it by διελης. Lev. xxii. 21. Whosoever offereth a facrifice of peace offering unto the Lord-lpbla ndr-Engl. to accomplish his vow-Sept. diατειλας (a word of like import with διελης) ευχην-xxvii. 2. iphla ndr-Engl. shall make a folemn vow-Sept. ευξηται ευχην; but in Numb. vi. 2. the same phrase is rendered – μεγαλως ευξηται ευχην; and xv. 3. μεγαλύναι ευχην. Thus Exod. viii. 2. ephlithi-Engl. I will fever-Sept. παραδοξασω, I will diftinguish in an honourable manner: the like in Exod. ix. 4. in all which places, Chald. Samar. and Syr. versions have phr which fignifies, to separate, to divide, to diftinguish, &c.'• There are several farther notes upon this passage, which we muft pafs by; but the Reader will observe, that by rendering the |