“And truly so far as I see, it must be some such huge tun at length rather than the bottle, that is, such a spacious tub as he in his deviceful imagination fancies Manasses to have built; a μανείον forsooth, or oracular edifice for ‘cheating rogues and queans to play their cozening tricks in;’ from that place 2 Chron. xxxiii. 6, ‏ועשה אוב‎, _Et fecit pythonem_. Now, says he, how could Manasses make a familiar spirit? or make one that had a familiar spirit? Therefore he made a bottle a tun, or a large tub, a μαντεῖον, or oracular edifice ‘for cheating rogues or queans to play their cozening tricks in.’ Very wisely argued, and out of the very depth of his ignorance of the Hebrew tongue, whereas if he had looked into Buxtorf’s Dictionary he might have understood that ‏עשה‎ signifies not only _fecit_ but also _paravit_, _comparavit_, _acquisivit_, _magni fecit_, none of which words imply the making of _OBH_ in his sense, but the only appointing them to be got, and countenancing them. For in Webster’s sense he did not make ‏ידעני‎ _jidegnoni_ neither, that is wizzards, and yet Manasses is said to make them both alike. ‏יעשה אוב וידעני‎, _Et fecit pythonem et magos_. So plain is it that ‏אוב‎, _obh_, signifies _pytho_, and that adequately in the same sense that _pytho_ does, either a familiar spirit, or him that has that spirit of divination. But in ‏בעלת אוב‎, _bagnalath obh_, it necessarily signifies the familiar spirit itself, which assisted the witch of Endor; whereby it is manifest she is rightly called a witch. As for his stories of counterfeit ventriloquists, (and who knows but some of his counterfeit ventriloquists may prove true ones,) that is but the threadbare sophistry of Sadducees and Atheists to elude the faith of all true stories by those that are of counterfeits or feigned. “The seventh word is ‏ידעוני‎, _jidegnoni_, which our English translators render a wizzard. And Webster is so kind as to allow them to have translated this word aright. Wizzards, then, Webster will allow, that is to say, he-witches, but not she-witches. How tender the man is of that sex! But the word invites him to it ‏ידעוני‎, _jidegnoni_, coming from _scire_, and answering exactly to wizzard or wise man. And does not witch from _wit_ and _weet_ signify as well a wise woman, as I noted above? And as to the sense of those words from whence they are derived, there is no hurt herein; and therefore if that were all, ‏ידעוני‎, _jidegnoni_, had not been in this black list. Wherefore it is here understood in that more restrict and worse sense: so as we understand usually now-a-days witch and wizzard, such wise men and women whose skill is from the confederacy of evil spirits, and therefore are real wizzards and witches. In what a bad sense ‏ידעוני‎, _jidegnoni_, is understood, we may learn, from Levit. xx. 27, ‘A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizzard, _jidegnoni_, shall be put to death, they shall stone them with stones,’ &c.