HHHHHH (_att_), "thee" in the feminine (terminating with _yod_ mute), for HHHHHH (_att_), a Syriasm very frequent in Jeremiah, who often forms the second person of the perfect fem. in HHHHHH (_t_ followed by _yod_) instead of HHHHHH (_t_). HHHHHH (_lô_ written with _waw_ quiescent), "not" very often for HHHHHH (_lô_ without the _waw_). HHHHHH (_hoglath_), "shall be carried away captive" (xiii. 19), instead of HHHHHH (_hoglethâ_). The latter Chaldaism we meet also in the Pentateuch (Leviticus xxv. 22), HHHHHH (_we'asath_), her fruits (shall) come in." for HHHHHH (_we'asetah_), and ibid xxvi. 34; HHHHHH (_we-hirzath_), "she shall enjoy," for HHHHHH (_we-hircethâ_). {302} With respect to the New Testament, I have required a similar notice from my son William, who has made the Greek language in general, and its deviations in the writings of the Gospel, the object of particular and careful study. I insert, also, the note which he has drawn up upon the subject:-- "On first approaching the text of the New Testament, after having learnt the Greek language and grammar in the classical writers, we are struck by numerous irregularities of expression: amongst these, however, we must carefully distinguish those which constitute merely particular and singular modes of expression from those which are real faults. The former are susceptible of explanation and justification by different examples and different arguments; the latter are not capable of being reconciled with the elementary and necessary laws of language. Thus we may justify such or such a strange form of conjugation or of declension, which would be accounted a barbarism by a school boy, but which was nevertheless in actual use in some one or other of the local dialects, written and spoken by the Greeks. {303} Again, however it may have been the rule in Greek to set the verb in the singular when used with a neuter substantive in the plural, the rule has not been invariably observed even by the purest classical writers, and we may justify by exceptions collected here and there in their compositions, several passages of the New Testament which, at first sight, might appear amenable to a charge of solecism. Thus, in short, after our attention having, at first sight, been arrested and our minds disconcerted by other passages in which the sacred writer has confounded the sense of two words which resemble each other, as [Greek text], which signifies _summon a witness_, and which St. Peter employs instead of [Greek text] which means, _give testimony_,[Footnote 127] as [Greek text], which signifies _to be incapable_, and which St. Matthew and St. Mark employ in the sense of _being impossible_, [Footnote 128]--as [Greek text], which signifies the _meridian or zenith of a star_, and which, on three occasions in the New Testament, is used in the sense of _in the middle of the air_,--or, even when we meet