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Show .26.J Their lJ4eaforeJ: L I B! VI. am to be underi~ood according to Wi~tchefter mea· Jure, as we phrafe it: fuch a bufhel contained eight gallon.r. Where I fpeak of gaUons, potties, qlJarts, &c. I am to be underftgod according to our Ale:meafore, thereby I avoid fractions of number. - a Aritt.r Mo~r. Jj), Kab, Kabu:1, a Kab, (a) This contained twenty !Thuhal Cam, foHr eggs, it held proportion with our ~ar1. The leafl: meafure mentioned in Scripture, Is the. fourth .p~rt of a. Kab, 2 Kings 6. 2 ).~ The famine in SafJJari ,• wasro great~ that a fourth part of a K.ab of Doves du11g h i'Jpn;wp was fold for five pieces offilver. The Rabbine~ have a 171" :1n~w Proverb, that (b) ten Kab.r of fpeech defoendedtnfo the D"71)11 world'> and the women tooftawtt} nine of thun. ,7taJt1!)~1'1 iD~ emer. It contained* one Kab and an half,and Vid. Bxx~or~J a fifth part of a K~b~that is, three pintr and a h11ljpint, Le:rir.in ~'nand a fifth part of an half pint. · It was the tenth part . ~Alfled.pr.ecot.of an Eph~th, Exod. 16.·36. · tbeol.l.2.p s88 h I Th . 1 c videBu:torf.. :1~0 Sea , ~r~-Tov:> 4 Sa tum ;, e Lattne nterp1·eters Lexie. in JJP commonly render it by Modim. It contained (c) ftx ex opere It Al b h · 11 d h W fl h d phn.rrtttlttt.de Ka .t, t at ts a Gauon an alf. e tran ate t ewor Fafch. chap, s.in general, a me afore: To morr.ow this time, a mea• fol,r? 6• fore(thatis, a8at1Jm) of fineflowerfuallbefold for d Aritt.r Mont. a Shekel, ; Kings 71 I: _ • Thubtd. C11in. M£)N Pphah. lt contatned (d) three Sat a) that ts_, half a h11jhel, a~nd :1 potlle, e Ephiph.de- '1n'7 Lethec. It contained (e) fifteell M~dios(i.)Sa .. . ";::~";;J~ ta ; that is, two bufhels,Jix gaUo11s, AHd a pottle. Mention of this is made} Hof., 3. 2. l't is there rend red in E,glifh, half an Homer. · ,on Homer ... It is fo called from 1)0n chamor, Afi· nrn, an Afs, becaufe this meafar.e contained fo much grain or corn as an Afs could well bear. , It contai~d ten P:phah1, E'ft.e/t. 4 5 ~ 1 1. that is,foriJ five gal/ottt or Jive bujhels, andjiveg_aUo~.t. · · ·Cor. • LIB. V T. ·their Mea/Rre1. z63 i'\:I Cor, Cortn. The Cor, and the Homer were of , th: fam~ quantity, Ezek.45· 14. It was not ~nly of li· qutd thtogs, Lt~/ze 16.7., Thefe meafures of which we· have fpoken hitherto, the Hebr~~s ufed in meafuring dr1 thi11gs : Three ot~er mea(ures there were, which they ufed for li-quid or mji{i thingf. · l)"'] Loj. ~c contained lf)fix egg{hellf. It was oft he {arne q~anttty as thefourthpart o~ a I<ab halfap. t f Bilxtoif:i:t 'I · l · d 'j ' 111 • loco /~tptTIN'I i if rn. c con~atne the quantity of(g)feve11ty two citato. . cgg-fhel/s, fo that .lt was of our meafure three quariJ. g Buxtorh th. n::1 ~~~th ~ ~J.T@-o, Bathtu, the Bath. Ic was of the fame c:tpa.ctty WH~ the Ephah, the tenth part of an Homer der 1~ Cad11s. (h) Hieron writing upon Ezel·iel ren.' .- d-4 ers1 t rr,~a d 11.r. D ecz· m~parsCor.i, inquit, inf'p\; eci' ehuJ"(hS R· it'ron •E ~'t-l.".'· ~ze~·4.5. I 4• The l:.tJI~ne· Interpt€ters commonly rent; bq,111d1t v.ocatNr 'Batbrn , five . Vadtn. I fomEdmes thought there had been fome error in tne print, n3me= Jy, V'adtn, put for CadtH : But now I find the Greeks to ufe both ~d7~, and · ~d.J'®-, for this meafure; and from the laft 6f thefe Greek words, ·that ancient F a• ~he~ reads it, Vad~~:r. Sometimes our Eng lifo renders It, tn genetal, a me afore, LH/v 16.6. It cont~ned {fJI!r g.t1llon1 tt.nd" h~t/f. · . ., . . All thefe meafures· ·were proper to 'the He6rew1 .: I flnd,thre_e others mentioned in theN. T. taken from other Nations. :EE)~r, Sexltu•itn. We Englifo it in general a Pot· , Mar.7·4·~i}ft ~as of the fame quan~ity with th~ Log,if"i Alfttd.;r~cc.t;!t we u,ndert1a~d It of the Ro1nan sextariw.It was fome .. The-ol. p, so •~ wflat more~ tfwe underfiand it of the Attic~ Sextari· Ill : undeczr;z Attici fextarii ~quabant Roma11o.t d _ decim_. In probabilic~ we ar~ to underfiand the~;,. ma11 meafu:re~ fo that lt contatn.edjix eog·s , that i 3 hAl£ a.phtl. CJ , ~ : -r Ql Yl :;,) |