Surenhusius took the hint immediately: he read such books as were recommended, observed every thing that might be subservient to his design, and made a book upon the subject. And in the third part of that book he gives us the rules so long sought after, viz., the ten ways# used, he says, by the Jewish doctors in citing scripture. And here they are:-- 1. The first rule is--"reading the words of the Hebrew bible, not according to the points placed under them, but according to other points substituted in their stead," as is done by Peter, Acts iii. 3; by Stephen, Acts vii. 43, and by Paul, 1 Cor. xv. 54; 2 Cor. viii. 16, and Heb. iii. 10; ix. 21; xii. 6. 2. The second rule is--"changing the letters, whether those letters be of the same organ (as the Hebrew grammarians speak,) or not," as is done by Paul, Rom. ix. 33; 1 Cor. xi. 9; Heb. viii. 9, and x. 6; and by Stephen, Acts vii. 43. 3. The third is--"changing both letters and points," as is done by Paul, Acts xiii. 41, and 2 Cor. viii. 15. 4. The fourth is--"adding some letters, and taking away others." 5. The fifth is--"transposing words and letters." 6. The sixth is--"dividing one word into two." 7. The seventh is--"adding other words to those in the text, in order to make the sense more clear, and to accommodate it to the subject they we upon." 8. The eighth is--"changing the order of words." 9. The ninth is--"changing the order of words, and adding other words." 10. The tenth is--"changing the order of words, adding words, and retrenching words," which, (says he) is a method often used by Paul. Of the application of all these rules, he gives examples taken from the New Testament. It is not necessary to make many observations upon these rules, they speak for themselves most significantly; for what is there that cannot be proved from the Old Testament, or any other book, yea, from Euclid's Elements! or even an old almanac! by the help of "altering words and sentences; adding; retrenching; and transposing, and cutting words in two," as is stated above by a learned and good man, and sincere Christian who found out, and brought forward, these rules, as the best means of getting the authors of the New Testament out of a difficulty, which had long shocked and grieved their best friends. CHAPTER VI. EXAMINATION OF THE MEANING OF THE PHRASE "THIS WAS DONE THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED."