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Jews to raise ye esteem of ye Sephragical version. | Jews to raise ye esteem of ye Sephragical version. | ||
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How many stories have past unquestion'd about ye Sybelline books & Oracles & their prophesyes of ye birth & Kingdom of Christ. And how firmly doe many of this time believe ye story of ye Seventy Interpreters of ye Old Testament into Greek, that were imployed by Ptolomy King of Egypt, how they were shutt up into so many distinct cells, & when they had finished ye interpretation of the whole, & came together to compare their copies they were found exactly to agree together. (unintelligible) hersay ye former of whose is sufficiently shown already by learned men to be but a priory device of ye first Christians to bring ye Heathems into a vene- ration of their religion, wch som: Prophetcyes of their own had said so much of; And the latter was but another devise of ye Hellenistical Jews to raise ye esteem of ye Sephragical version.