Zechariah, A New Translation

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Excerpt from Zechariah, A New Translation: With Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory, And an Appendix, in Reply to Dr. Eveleigh's Sermon on Zechariah II. 8-11 T H E Author of the following Di¿ertation hath heen encouraged! Hy tho/e, of who/e judgment he hath afar hetter opinion than he hath of hi: own, to juhmit to the puhlic hi: attempt toward: the explication of a prophecy, which hath long heen looked upon a: very oh/éure and intere¿ ing, hut thi: he could not prevail upon him/e! To do, without making known at the fame time how hi: thought: came to he turned in ¿tch a new and particular direction, and of what imam he hath availed himfe'lf in the further pro/ecution g hi: inguiry.-my 'very learned and re/pefiahle friend, and predec'e¿or in thi: College, now Bifhop of dro more, * to whom at hi: regue¿ I had jent an extrafi of the eight la¿ *verfi: of the Ninth chapter of Daniel, from the ancient 'ver¿on of the Seventy, lately di/zovered and puhli/hed at Rome, mo/t' ohlzgingly returned hi: acknowledgment: with the following ingenian: remark:. The num her: which in thi: 'ver¿on are found di¿erent from tho/e in the common text, he think:, may he thu: accounted for. Seventy week: add ¿qien week: are 5 3 9 year:. Now Cyrm': decree according to all the Chronologer: wa: i¿zed 5 36' year: hefire Chri¿ and we reckon hy hehdomad: of year:, we cannot come nearer to Chrfi': hirth. Add to the ¿xty two year: mentioned 'ver. 26 and 27. In thi: Greek ver¿on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.