1. That the most of the Translators in rendering this word whether in this place, or in others, have been very inconstant, and one place not agreeing with another, as _Arias Montanus_ in this place gives it _maleficus_, but in _Exodus_ he makes it, _Præstigiatores_, and in the 22 and 16 of the same Book he makes it _Præstigiatricem_; and in another place where the very same word is used in the Hebrew, he saith of _Manásseh, & Præstigiis vacabat_. And yet in another place, he rendereth the very same word _veneficia_. So uncertain was this learned Man, and so inconsiderate in his versions, wherein he ought to have had a more special care. Now _Tremellius_ in all the places named before, doth use the words _Præstigiatorem_, and the words from the same derivation in the Latine, which sheweth certainty and constancy. 2. The most of all the translations in the Polyglott, do render this word doubtful and various: As _maleficus_, _magus_, _præstigias faciens_, _Incantator_, and the like, which are all dubious, and various, and no certainty can be produced from them. Only those we call the _Septuagint_ do keep close to words of the same signification, deducted all from φάρμακον, which properly doth signifie no more than _venenum_, poison, though the circumstances do manifest that they were but Jugling and Imposture. And the High-Dutch, Low-Dutch, French and Italian translations do all render it with the same uncertainty, so that nothing sure can be drawn from them. [Sidenote: Moses and Aaron _l._ 4. _c._ 10. _p._ 191.] [Sidenote: Com. upon Exod. _c._ 7. _p._ 72.]