5. But if in both places it be taken for charming, yet will it not prove the being and existence of such a kind of Witch, as we have denied and confuted; nor doth it shew any fit appellation for such a one. [Sidenote: Psal. 104. 4.] [Sidenote: Malach. 4. 1.] 12. Moreover there is another word as much mistaken, and as falsly translated as any of the rest, and that is ‏לָהַט‎, _Inflammatus est, flammescebat_, and is understood a shining brightness, as in the Psalm: _Who maketh his Angels spirits: his ministers flaming fire_. And in another place, _& inflammabit eos dies veniens_; The day cometh that shall burn as an oven. From whence we may note these things. [Sidenote: Gen. 3. 24.] [Sidenote: Nahum 3. 3.] 1. From this root doth come ‏לַהַט‎ _Flamma_, Metaphorically (as _Schindlerus_ saith) a polished and shining piece of Metal, as a Sword or the like. But _Avenarius_ tells us, it is, _Flamma rutilans, lamina fulgens & vibrans_; as, _And he placed at the East of the garden of Eden, Cherubims, and a flaming or bright shining sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life_. And in another place, _The horseman lifteth up the bright sword, and the glittering spear_. Both places plainly shewing that it signifieth Metal so polished, that when it is shaken in the light, or shining of the Sun, and moved quickly, it doth then glitter like a red and shining flame. 2. There is also the word ‏לאט‎ _Involvit, velavit, arcanum_, and the like which the vulgar Latin do attribute to _Pharaohs_ Magicians, when our translation saith, _And they did in like manner with their inchantments_: It is _& fecerunt similiter per sua arcana_, thinking the word there had been derived from ‏לאט‎ _arcanum_, when it is from ‏לַהַט‎, _Flamma, lamina_; a polisht and bright piece of Metal. 3. In all the places of Exodus where mention is made of the Magicians, _that they did in like manner with their inchantments_, the word is ‏בְּלַהֲטֵיהֶם‎ which if truly rendered, is this: And they did in like manner with their bright, glittering lamens, or plates of Metal. And how the Translators could hale it by head and shoulder to signifie Inchantment, cannot be conjectured; but because the Magicians are there called, _sapientes & præstigiatores_, Wise Men and Juglers, they vainly thought that they wrought by a secret compact with the Devil, and so all must be done by their imaginary Witchcraft and inchantment, when it is plain that what they did was by natural Magick, and sleight of hand, and not by Diabolical Magick at all. But let them shew us any one place in all the Old Testament, where any of the derivatives from this root, are translated Inchantments, but only in these places of _Exodus_, and we will yield the whole cause. [Sidenote: Isai. 19. 3.]