“The last word is ‏דורש המתים‎, _doresh hammethim_, which our translators rightly render _necromancers_; that is, those that either upon their own account, or desired by others, do raise the ghosts of the deceased to consult with; which is a more particular term than ‏בעל אוב‎, _bagnal obh_: but he that is _bagnal obh_, may be also _doresh hammethim_, a necromancer, as appears in the witch of Endor. Here Webster by ‏המתים‎, _hammethim_, the dead, would understand dead statues; but let him, if he can, any where shew in all the Scripture where the word ‏המתים‎, _hammethim_, is used of what was not once alive. He thinks he hits the nail on the head in that place of Isaiah, viii. 19, ‘And when they say unto you, seek unto [‏האבות‎, that is, to ‏בעליה אוב‎, such as the witch of Endor was,] them that have familiar spirits, and to wizzards that peep and that mutter; [the Hebrew has it ‏המהגים‎ and ‏המצפצפים‎; that is, speak with a querulous murmurant or mussitant voice, when they either conjure up the spirit, or give responses. If this be to ‘peep like a chicken,’ Isaiah himself peeped like a chicken, xxxviii. 14,] should not a people seek unto their God? for the living, (‏אל המתים‎,) to the dead?’ Where _hammethim_ is so far from signifying dead statues, that it must needs be understood of the ghosts of dead men, as here in Deuteronomy. None but one that had either stupidly or wilfully forgot the story of Samuel’s being raised by that ‏בעלת אוב‎, _bagnalath obh_, the witch of Endor, could ever have the face to affirm that ‏המתים‎, _hammethim_, here in Isaiah, is to be understood of dead statues, when wizzards or necromancers were so immediately mentioned before, especially not Webster, who acknowledges that ‏שואל אוב‎, _shoel obh_, signifies a necromancer in this Deuteronomical list of names. And therefore, forsooth, would have it a tautology that _doresh hammethim_ should signify so too. But I say it is no tautology, this last being more express and restrict. And besides, this enumeration is not intended as an accurate logical division of witches or witchcraft, into so many distinct kinds, but a reciting of several names of that ill trade, though they will interfere one with another, and have no significations so precisely distinct. But as I said before, this fuller recounting of them is made that the prohibition in this form might be the surer fence against the sin. And now therefore what will J. Webster get by this, if _doresh hammethim_ will not signify a witch of Endor, when it must necessarily signify a necromancer, which is as much against his tooth as the other? Nay indeed this necromancer is also a witch or wizzard, according to the definition produced above.