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Show '268' Tlieir SIJ!)JJ LIB~ v r. u ~·H.~OI ;)· SicltH dltri) afoek.Jl ofgoi4.) J chroH. ll.15· He~ce the "'-tal, ere. one thoufand feven hundred pie.cer of gold mentzoned, x Brurwood J J . d ,. ( )jh 1. 1 1-f' /d de mtmmis. llt;tg.f$.'26. the Greek.,ren ers 11 oo, u e,ze 1 oJ go • ( x) The weizht of this Coyn was t\vo Attic':.._ dram.J, the value 15 .r. Tz1Ji1N Adarcon, of this we read, Efra 8.1. 7· It waa aHa ca11ed i~O'l11 DrachmonJ of which we read,Ejra·2. 69. Both thefe names feem to denote the fame coyn; it not:-yet both were oft he fame weight. The Greel\_i'n .. terprets them both by lestXP.~)' ~nd our Eng lifo accot:d~ ingl y renders both, a dr.rm, whtch mufi be ~nd.erftood of the dr~tlln in ufe among the Hobrews,\VeJghmg two ..A~ticJz dranu.FnJOl theGrcek .!'cPX(J-~.Drachfllon feem~th yBreerwood to have had its name (y) tie conj~frureth not am1fs, lit nummiJ, who thinketh that Adar_co1z was fo called,. q,ua{i Dar.it:() n, which was a certa tn <;oyn of gold 10 ore among the Perftans , and from King Darius (whofe Image one fide thereof bore) was named·DarJc.on, a!ld N·amongfl: the C/ia/J£A1tl j i!s often prefixed before a word, as n j) among(\: the Hebrews. The value of this Coyn was of ours 1 5. s. Their fums. · I • ,. Their fums were two MJO Maneh, ~'-';.Min a, a Pound~ Ingold it wejghed :one h11ndrrtl jl;el{_els. This appeareth by comparing thefe·Texts, 1 Ki11. 1 o.x ?· Tres o· .:r~ Ma • ni111 three EJJMnd of gold went to one futeld. Now we read, 2 c"hron. 9. t6. Three h~tndred _foel{els of gold went to one fhield. The namefoel{els Js not expreffed in the Original,bnt neceff~rily unde.rfiood, a~ appear• eth in that which was ftJoken ofZt~h~b For tt ..Js are· ~e.ive.d rule, that in Scripture, Aurum being pot with a n-u~rneral fignifieth fo many Jbe_4elJofgold;and Co Arg~nINm in like manner. The wetght thereof then be1ng· 1 co foe4.,els, it followeth,that the value was 75 I. In fit. , . ver,their M~neh weighed 6ofhe~els,Eze~.4~ .12.fo th~t z ~ob~tnal~r rn i~" l'alued ]l1IO·s. Note .. that Cz) sheindter was.decel-i1::: - '" · ~ - vcd. Their SNIHt. ved )n fay ing ,t.hat tbe price or val qe oft be Maneh was changed in Ezekjelt time, becaufe it then valued 6o foei{els :for the d i flerence is not between the facred & profane ~Janeh~as sheindler conceives, hut he tween the M.uzeh of gold, which was valued at too jhe4,els al· ways, and ~he Maneh of filver, which weighed. t'Ofoekel~) accordtng to the forequoted place in Ezel<fel. fhe fecond fum was ,JJ Cic4r, Talellt~tm, A tit- · le1tt. Tqis, if it were of ftlver, it contained in weight. :jOoo foeftelr~ For, th{)fe two verfes being compared together, Exod.38.2),26. fheweth~ that fix hHNdred thoufand men paying every man half 4Jbe4.,el) the whole fum amounted to an hNndredt~tlents; whence it followeth, that a talent of jilver amongfl: the Hebrew.r. Was 375 l. But a talent of gold (the prop.ortion of gold to fit ver being obfcrved) was twelve times as much, fa that it \'alued of ours 45co/. In this traCt of their Coyns \Ve ·are to know t!Jree thingJ .Firfi,that as the RonJ-ans,in the former age~,ufed .diJ g_rave, BuUio". tJJ011ej) un~amp~, which in the Mafi · or BtUot they weJghed out· In theu pa-yments, and at:terward , ~·s {ignaf.um, COjtJed met alt.- fo the Hebrew.r th~ugh at l~(t they ufed, coy ned mtJneJ,yet at firft they wughedthetrmo~J ~~~COJned;Abrahamweighed toEphro?Z- ·; thejilver,Ge~t,23 . 1 6. Hence thejhel{el had its na11Je[ro11~ '7i'fw sha~al, po.'1derare1 lihr~re, to weigh, or pu't m the 6~tlla1lcc,. Se&~lldlJ,as the coynedfoeftel pa1 twof~ld,one for the ufe o the Sa1!0Httr)';the other for the ufe oftr.e ~ Comm~nrru~lth; and that of theSanl1uarJ was double t.~e .Pnc~ of the other; fo-the fl'eit,ht of the jhe~el to be. · dtlhngl;ufht after the fame manner; the jhe~el of the · Sanauar1 weif>hed half an oltnce Tro; weight; the conJ· IJI.IJ"_foel{el We1ghed .t tJftarter of tt1J oHnce.F or example,_ .. G.fJiz~ths /pear 1 he ~d weighed 6oo Jhef<.t!J of the San{fltarl t.Sam; ll.:J.. that Is~twent)UfJ~ poNnd weig(u: AbfaJom's - · haitl .. . , |
