4. This exposition includeth no absurdity, nor bringeth any inconvenience, and is genuine, and not wrested; whereas the other doth hurry in a whole heap of most absurd doubts, questions and opinions. But if in this exposition we be Heterodoxal, we crave pardon, and referr it to the judgment of those that are learned, of what perswasion soever they be. [Sidenote: _In Dan._ _c._ 1. _v._ 20. _p._ 87.] 10. Another word that is used in divers places of Scripture is ‏חַרְטֻמִּים‎, which though _Avenarius_ doth derive from ‏חֶרֶט‎ _stilus &_ ‏אָטַם‎ _clausit_, yet the learned person _Masius_ saith, _Est autem aliarum nationum vocabulum, ab Hebræa lingua alienum & peregrinum, usurpatum tamen ab Hebræis_. And also the judicious _Polanus_ is of the same opinion, that it is a word strange and foreign from the Hebrew language. The Translators are all so various about the proper derivation and signification of it, that it were but lost time and labour to recite them: But it is manifest that it was a general word for one that was skilful in all, or divers sorts of these Divinations, and might best be constantly rendred _magos_, and that for these reasons. [Sidenote: A Candle in the dark, p. 11.] 1. It is the opinion of _Masius_ and Mr. _Ady_ that it is a general word, and signifieth one that hath skill in many of these kind of arts, (if they may be so called) the latter of which saith thus: “It is taken in the general sense for _magus_ a Magician; that hath one, or all these crafts or Impostures.” And the former quoting the sentence of _Rabbi Isaac Natar_, saith: _Hoc nomine vocatos esse ab Hebræis quosvis, qui inter gentes singularem profitebantur sapientiam; præsertim cùm ea ad superstitionem pertineret_. 2. Because that in _Exodus_ 7. 13. those that there are called _Hachamim_ and _Mechassephim_, that is _sapientes & præstigiatores_, as _Tremellius_ renders it, which is most proper and genuine, are there called _Hartummim Mezeraim_, that is _Magos Ægypti_, the Magicians of _Ægypt_; by which it appeareth plainly that it is a general name, and may most properly be rendered a Magician. 3. It may most properly be taken for a Magician, because those that acted before _Pharaoh_ are called by that name, and excepting their opposing of _Moses_, and their superstition, it doth not appear that they dealt with unlawful Magick, as we shall prove undeniably hereafter. [Sidenote: 2 Sam. 12. 19.] [Sidenote: Psal. 41. 7.] [Sidenote: Isai. 26. 16.]