APPENDIX:

Concerning the Ufe of the Words

SOUL, or SPIRIT,

In

Holy SCRIPTURE;

And the

State of the DEAD there described.

Concerning the use of the words Soul, or Spirit, in holy Scripture; and the state of the Dead there defcribed.

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רוח and נשמה נפש N the firft place the words

in the Old Testament, which are in our verfion generally translated foul, or spirit; as well as those of the fame import in the New, veμ and vx7; most commonly denote,

I. PERSONS.

Gen. xvii. 14.

Exod. xii. 15, 19.

through ignorance.

27. if

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any one of the common people fin through ignorance. Add vi. 2. vii. 20.- the foul that eateth of the flesh of the facrifice. -21. the foul that shall touch any unclean thing. Add 25, 27, and xvii. 10, 15. xix. 8. xx. 6. xxii. 11. If the priest buy any foul with his money, he shall eat of it. xxiii. 30. And whatfoever foul it be, that doth any work in that fame day, the fame foul will I destroy from among his people. Add Num. xv. 30, 31. xix. 13, 20. Deut. xxiv. 7. If a man be found ftealing any of his brethren. 2 Sam. xiv. 14. Neither doth God respect any perfon. Prov. xiii. 2.— the foul of the tranfgreffors fhall eat violence. Add xiv. 25. xix, 2. Ezek. xviii. 4. Behold, all fouls are mine; as the foul

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Et non tollet Deus animam. Vid. Cleric.

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foul of the father, fo alfo the foul of the fon is mine. xxvii. 13.-they traded the persons of men. Acts.ii.43.-fear came upon every foul. Add Rom. ii. 9. xiii.1. 1 Tim.iv. 1. feducing fpirits, i.e. feducers. 2 Pet. ii.14.- beguiling unstable fouls. Rev. xviii.13.- -the merchandise of gold and filver,and flaves, and fouls of men.

2. Secondly, People;

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As when they are numbered. Gen. xlvi.15. All the fouls of his fons and daughters were thirty and three. Add 22,27. Exod.i. 5. xii.4.-xvi.16. according to the number of your perfons. Num. xxxi. 28. — levy a tribute—one foul of five hundred, both of the perfons, and of the beeves, &c. -35-thirty and two thousand perfons in all. -40.-the perfons were fixteen thousand.-46. fixteen thousand perfons. 1 Chron.v.21. they took away of men an hundred thousand. Jer.lii. 29. carried away captive-eight hundred and thirty two perfons. 30.- Nebuzaradan carried away captive of the Jews feven hundred and forty five perfons. Acts ii. 41.—the fame day were added unto them about three thousand fouls. Add vii. 14, xxvii. 3 37. I Pet. iii. 20.

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-And divided into families. Gen. xlvi, 27. All the fouls of the houfe of Jacob which came into Egypt. 1 Sam. xxii. 22. I have occafioned the death of all the perfons of thy father's house. -Or diftinguished from other goods. Gen. xii. 5. Abraham took Sarai his wife, and Lot- and all their

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and the fouls that they had

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their fubftance, gotten in Haran. xiv. 21.- Give me the perfons, and take the goods to thyfelf. Job. xi. 14. But every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them; neither left they any to breathe. Add 1 Kings xv. 29.

3. Thirdly, foul, or spirit often fignifies the man himself as my foul, i. e. I. Gen. xii. 13. Say, I pray thee, thou art my fifter-and my foul fhall live because of thee. xix. 20.-let me efcape thither, and my foul fhall live. xxvii. 4. that my foul may bless thee before I die. Job vii. 15.--so that my foul chooseth strangling. x. 1, my foul is weary of my life. Add Pfal. xxxv. 9. lvii. 4. Matt. xxvi. 38.

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My foul, i,e. me, Num. xxiii. 10.- let me die the death of the righteous. Pfalm xxxv. 3.— say unto my foul, I am thy falvation. xli. 4. heal my foul, for I have finned against thee.

Thy foul, i.e. thyself. Efth, iv. 13. Prov. iii. 22. fo fhall they be life unto thy foul. Ezek. iii. 19.thou haft delivered thy foul. Add ✯. 21.

Thy spirit, i. e. thee. 2 Tim. vi. 22. The Lord Jefus be with thy fpirit.

His foul, i. e, himself, Prov. xi. 17. The merciful man doth good to his own foul. Add xx. 2.

Her foul, i. e. herself. Ifai. v. 14. (applied by a profopopoeia to the grave,) therefore hell hath enlarged herself.

Their fouls, i, e, themselves. Ifai..xlvi. 2. — them