1. That the most of all the Translators do some render it by one word, and some by another, that no certainty can be gathered from them at all, as though it did signifie divers and many sorts of these kinds of Augury, Divinations, or juggling Feats, when in reason we cannot but suppose that it only comprehended some one sort, and not so many as the Translators do ascribe to it. The Septuagint render it for the most part κληδονιζόμενος, sometimes αποφθεγγόμενος, and sometimes ὀρνιθοσκοπήσεθε, which are all of different derivations and significations; some others render it other ways, as, _neq; auspicabimini, neq; observabitis horas, ne vaticinemini, ne ominemini, nec observet somnia & auguria, nec qui exercet Astrologiam, &c._ Now from such a diversity no man is able to draw a positive certainty. 2. They do not keep to one word appropriate to the Hebrew, which if they had not forgotten themselves, they would have done, and not left it uncertain. For _Arias Montanus_ in the 19. of _Leviticus_, _vers._ 26. renders it, _neq; præstigiabamini_, and in the 2. of _Isaiah_, _vers._ 6. translates it, _augures sicut Philistim_. In _Isa._ 57. 3. he calleth them _Filii Auguratricis_. And in the 27. of _Jeremiah_, _v._ 9. _Et ad Augures vestros._ Also _Micah_ 5. 11. he renders it _Præstigiatores_. Now what great difference there is betwixt any sort of Augury, and Juggling, or Leger-de-main, is known to any of indifferent reading. And the rest of the Translators are far more wild, and more wide. And _Junius_ and _Tremellius_, who of all others, one might have thought would have been more circumspect, yet fall into the same incertitude; for in Deut. 18. 10. he renders it _Planetarius_, but in the place before-cited in _Leviticus_, they render it, _neq; utemini præstigiis_, though in the Margent they mend it, with this note, _neq; ex nubibus conjicite, vel ne temporis observationi plus æquo tribuite_. And _Isa._ 2. 6. _Et præstigiatores sunt ut Polischtæi._ [Sidenote: _Vid._ _Jo. Wier. de mag. Jus._ _c._ 1. _p._ 91.] [Sidenote: Of Divin. _lib._ 4. _cap._ 10. _p._ 183.] 3. But if there be any certainty in adhering to the primitive signification of the Hebrew root, that plainly intendeth _obnubilavit_, that it is without question most safe and genuine to translate it Planetarius, to which the most learned _Andreas Masius_ (as he is quoted by _Wierus_) doth incline in these words: _Veteres Hebræorum dicunt id verbum ad eos propriè pertinere, qui temporum momenta superstitiosè observant, atq; alia fausta rebus gerendis, alia infausta præscribunt_. To which agreeth Mr. _Thomas Goodwin_, saying: “But of all I approve those who derive it from ‏עִנֵּן‎ a Cloud, as if the Original signified properly a Planetary, or Stargazer.”