13. There is also another Text which we have omitted of purpose until now, which our English Translators do, according to their usual manner, thus render: _And they shall seek to the Idols, and to the Charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the Wizards_: In which there is a word not used in that sense in all the Old Testament besides; of which place we may note these things. 1. The word there in doubt is ‏אָט‎, _Lenis, lenitas_, and it oft becometh an Adverb, _leniter, pedetentim_. The root ‏אָטַט‎, _leniter incessit_, _Avenarius_ saith it is not used in the plural number, and signifieth Inchanters or Diviners, and is ‏הָאִטִּים‎ which he rendereth _Incantatores_; because as some think they do easily and gentilely pronounce their charms. 2. But _Tremellius_ doth translate it thus: _Consulent sua Idola, & præstigiatores Pythonesq; & ariolos_: And giveth this note, Their Idols, that is to say Devils, that give them answers, especially the Idol of _Latona_ in the Town called _Butun_ over against the Sebenitick mouth of _Nilus_, of which _Herodotus_ speaketh: where he expoundeth also divers consultations of these Idols. But how or in what sense he holdeth that the Devils gave answers, except by the lying Impostures of the Priests, he doth not shew, nor _Herodotus_ his Author neither. 3. But this place according to _Arias Montanus_ is rendered thus: And they shall seek unto their vain things or Idols, and to their Diviners (that is this word _Haattim_) and to the Pythonists, or Oraclers, and to Wizards. But those we call the Septuagint do render this place very odly, as they seldom do elsewhere, which is this: Καὶ ἐπερωτήσουσι τοὺς θεοὺς αὐτων, καὶ τὰ ἀγάλματα αὐτῶν, καὶ τοὺς ἐκ τῆς γῆς φωνοῦντας, καὶ τοὺς ἐγγαστριμύθους, that is, _And they shall ask their gods, and their images, or painted statues, and those that give their voice forth of the earth, and those that speak in their breasts or bellies_. [Sidenote: _Strab. Geograph._ _l._ 16.] 14. There is also another word which is ‏אַשָּׁף‎, and signifieth (as _Avenarius_ saith) _Sophus, sapiens in Astrologia & in auspiciis, augur, aruspex_. _Rabbi Abraham_ thinketh it signifieth a Physician, who knoweth the alteration of the body, by the pulse of the arm, or by the urine. And _Schindlerus_ translateth it, a Philosopher, an Astronomer and a Physician, and saith that such were Astronomers and Physicians amongst the _Chaldeans_, of whom _Strabo_ saith: “There was a certain habitation appointed in _Babylon_ for their home-bred Philosophers, who were much conversant about Philosophy, and were called _Chaldeans_.” And further, “that they were Physicians that could judge of the passions of the Body, which dreams did imitate, by the Pulse and urine.” And _Polanus_ tells us that it is a _Chaldee_ word because it is found no where else but in _Daniel_. [Sidenote: 1 Kings 4. 30.]