thing, or because he gives all Conveniencies to Men; or from the Greek Néos, which fignifies Fear, because he is a Terfor, or Dread to Men. But the Word rather comes from the Greek Osos, the Afpiration being taken away, which was common with our Antients; Feftus. The Faces of the radiating Deus, (God.) Valer. 5. Argon. the Dii, (Gods,) of the Groves, Ovid. 7. Metam. S. T. t. I. c. 1023. As, Dis, Aios, Dios, A, Dii, Aia, Dia; Jupiter, fove; but the Nominative Cafe Dis is not used, tho' the oblique Cafes are formed from it: and inftead of it Zeus, (Zevs,) is used, whence Znvos, (Zenos,) which is rather formed from C, zeen, to live.-The Greeks often call the Air Aía, (Dia.) 1025. 'Euda, Eudia, that is, the Goodness of the Air, or its good Temperament; vagia, Euaria, (for it has been faid, that Aα, Dia, fometimes fignifies the Air.) C. Sufficiency, fufficient, enough. Omnipotent, Gen. xvii. 1. properly and ftrictly, who in and from himself hath Sufficiency and Abundance. It is compounded of, who; and, fufficient; Heb.

is the fame as N, Cant. i. 17. —¶, Ethiop. Cevs, (Zeus,) Jupiter. Chald.

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'T, A105, (Dios,) deus, Deus, (God;) , Sufficiency, fufficient, enough, ". But the Name of God, Shadai, is Omnipotent; as much as to fay, Sufficient for himself, and for every Being: as it were from the Pronoun Se, and from the Name Dai, fufficient. Arab. De, is, to poffefs. Hence Greek and Latin, Aw, (Dio,) Do, Aidou, (Didomi,) Do, Dedi, Dedo, to give, diftribute, &c. From Dai, Sufficiency, is the Origin of the Greek and Latin, Dis, the fame as the Greek Пλ8Tos, (Plutus,) As, (Dis,) Jupiter, Zeus, (Zeus,) Aos, (Dios,) Al, (Dii,) Aiα, (Dia,) &c. " thence the Latin, Dives, (rich,) &c. Pfal. xci. 1. He fhall abide under the Shadow of Shadai. Sept. He fhall tent under the Covering of the God of Heaven, (Ouranos.) Jer. li. 58. And the People laboured in the Sufficiency p of Emptiness, and the Nations in the Sufficiency of Fire fhall be wearied. Hab. ii. 13. Behold, is it not from the very Jehovah of Hofts, that the People laboured in the Sufficiency of Fire, (which they worshipped,) and the Gentiles fhall weary themfelves in the Sufficiency of Emptiness." It was an Attribute of the reclaimed Name 8, when alone a Pronoun, and fomething

near

near an Adjective. When one gave this Epithet joined with Mafter to Chrift, he faid, Matth. xix. 17. Why calleft thou me Good? there is none good but one, that is God; this Word was not to be joined with Mafter. How great foever this Attribute may be, yet it makes no Diftinction be- ́ tween him and his Agents, for he called them good, and they give us what is fufficient; indeed we know 'tis not from themselves, but from him. However it has nothing to do with any Distinction of Perfons, nor has it any Reference to any Covenant. Cuftom forces me to use the Word God in the Thread of the Discourse, and People will take it in the Sense they have used it. But when I come to explain the Meanings of the Hebrew Words, for which that Word is in our Translation ufed, I must fhew the Difference,

The Word Jehovah is generally tranflated pretty near what the Word Adonai, which the late Jews commanded to be writ and read in its Place, fignifies, viz. Lord, which I fhall fhew in its Place, is as wide as the last will appear to be.

The Meaning of every Word must be taken from the Ufage at the Time it was writ, with fuch Limitations as I have al

ready laid down in the Introduction to the 2. Part of M. P.

If the first Tranflators had understood the Words used for Names in the Hebrew Tongue, and done their beft to translate them into Greek, Word for Word; they could not have found any proper Words for fome Names, fo muft have taken fuch as they could find: For when a Word is framed to raise a true Idea of Things, Actions, or Offices peculiar to a People, fo Place where and Time when that Language was framed and fpoke; 'tis impoffible that any Word in any other Language which has been framed to raise Ideas of other Things, Actions, or Offices, can ferve for a Tranflation of fuch Word: Nay, put it further, fuppofe thofe of other Nations and Languages had heard that there were fuch Things, Actions, or Offices, and fhould have framed Words for Hear-fay, and fo imperfect Ideas of them, that would not have much mended the Matter.

So whatever things, &c. the Hebrews had, or had Knowledge of, and fo framed proper Words for, and the Greeks, Latins,

c. had not, nor had any Knowledge of, they framed no Words or Names for them.

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If God had Communication with the Hebrews, and not with the Greeks; if he made known to them, that he had made a Covenant with Man, or with them in behalf of themselves and the reft of Mankind; if he fwore to perform that Covenant; if he manifefted the Manner in which that Covenant was to be performed, and therein the Manner of the Exiftence of his Effence, fo far as to fhew what Share each Perfon in that Effence was to perform in that Covenant; and they have been pleased to name themselves from the Covenant or Oath, as a Name in which they glory, and by which Man might approach them, and the very uttering of which is beyond all Prayers, Praife, &c. 'tis impoffible to expect, that the Greeks, who when they framed their Language knew nothing of, or at leaft believed or allowed none of these things, fhould have proper Words to express them: And as the Refuge of Fools, who use Words without ever searching for the Ideas fixed to them, by Ufage in their refpective Languages, is always to fay, when foiled in difpute, we only differ about Words, we must try to prevent them. Though I am not commiffioned to determine the Points, but B 4 defirous