Jewish antiquities: . on. prolegom, viii. ad Bibl. Polyglot. (tf) I Cor. i. 20. f V^d. Liightfoot. Hor. hebraic. in Luc, x. 25, (J)) Gal. iv. 406 Of the Maforites. B. T, very different from thofe which the expreflionfeemed naturally to import, or which were everintended by the authors *. We have before offered fome reafons for be-lieving that by the (ro?)Of, mentioned in the firftchapter of the firft epiftle to the Corinthians a),are meant gentile philofophers, and not, asGodwin feems to imagine, jewifh teachers oftraditions. Whether the difputer of this world,tf-o^jiTHTjf? TK etiuvoi THTis, r
Jewish antiquities: . on. prolegom, viii. ad Bibl. Polyglot. (tf) I Cor. i. 20. f V^d. Liightfoot. Hor. hebraic. in Luc, x. 25, (J)) Gal. iv. 406 Of the Maforites. B. T, very different from thofe which the expreflionfeemed naturally to import, or which were everintended by the authors *. We have before offered fome reafons for be-lieving that by the (ro?)Of, mentioned in the firftchapter of the firft epiftle to the Corinthians a),are meant gentile philofophers, and not, asGodwin feems to imagine, jewifh teachers oftraditions. Whether the difputer of this world,tf-o^jiTHTjf? TK etiuvoi THTis, refcrcd to the jewiih al-legorical do6bors, or the gentile natural philo-fophers, as diftinguiflicd from the moral philo-fophers, called (TQpoi, is differently conje6lurecJby the learned, but very hard to be determine4with certainty. * A large account of the cabaliftic art, as notcnly by Jews, but by Heathens and Chriftians, may in Bafnages hiftory of the Jews, book iii. chap. ^, ,,{«) I Cor. i. CHAP. { 40? ) CHAP. VII. Of the title Rabbi. TH E title rabbi, with feveral others fromthe fame root ^^1 rabhabh, magnus eft,vel, multiplicatus eft, began firft to be afllimed,according to Godwin, as a diftinguiihing titleof honour by men of learning, about the timeof the birth of Chrift. We find it ancientlygiven, indeed, to feveral magiftrates and offi-cers of ftate. In the book of Efther it is faid,the king appointed in*^ 11*Sl3 col rab betho,which we render all the officers of hishoufe f^). In Jeremiah we read of the Olib/^n rabbe hammelek, the princes of theking (^) In the book of Job it is faid thatthe W^y) rabbim, which we render greatmen, are not always wife(f)-,** a rendering, which-I apprehend, well exprelTes the original mean-ing of the word. It was not therefore in thofedays properly a title of honour, belonging toany particular office or dignity in church orftate J but all, who were of fuperior rankand condition in life, were called 021 rab-bim. We d
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