An Attempt to restore the true reading and rendering of the last Verse of the 4th Chapter of Nehemiah. A discourse Preached before the University of Oxford, At St. Mary's, On Sunday, Sept. 29. 1771.
Oxford.
Printed at the Clarendon-Press, 1771.
First edition.
8vo.
[2], 24pp, [2]. With a terminal advertisement leaf. Recent navy cloth-backed marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Slightest of wear to extremities. Lightly spotted, internally clean and crisp.
A monograph by Hebrew scholar and Church of England clergyman John Hopkins (1716-1785) on the restoration of the 23rd verse of the fourth book of Nehemiah, deemed to have been mis-translated and thus become corrupted. Hopkins remarkably concludes that the phrase 'saving that every one put them off for washing' ought to be rendered as 'Every man with his sword in the right hand', a more than subtle alteration.
ESTC locates only two copies in the British Isles (BL and Oxford), and two further copies in North America (Library Company of Philadelphia and Yale).
ESTC locates only two copies in the British Isles (BL and Oxford), and two further copies in North America (Library Company of Philadelphia and Yale).
ESTC T66242.
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref: 14779
