Nor shall we wonder at the dissent of exposition, and difficulty of definition concerning this Text, if we perpend how variously the vegetables of Scripture are expounded, and how hard it is in many places to make out the _species_ determined. Thus are we at variance concerning the plant that covered _Jonas_; which though the Septuagint doth render Colocynthis, the _Spanish_ Calabaca, and ours accordingly a Gourd: yet the vulgar translates it Hedera or Ivy; and as _Grotius_ observeth, _Jerom_ thus translated it, not as the same plant, but best apprehended thereby. The Italian of _Diodati_, and that of _Tremelius_ have named it _Ricinus_, and so hath ours in the Margin, for _palma Christi_ is the same with _Ricinus_. The _Geneva_ Translators have herein been also circumspect, for they have retained the Original word _Kikaion_, and ours hath also affixed the same unto the Margin. Nor are they indeed alwayes the same plants which are delivered under the same name, and appellations commonly received amongst us. So when it is said of _Solomon_, that he writ of plants from the Cedar of Lebanus, unto the Hysop that groweth upon the wall, that is, from the greatest unto the smallest, it cannot be well conceived our common Hysop; for neither is that the least of vegetables, nor observed to grow upon wals; but rather as _Lemnius_ well conceiveth, some kind of the capillaries, which are very small plants, and only grow upon wals and stony places. Nor are the four species in the holy oyntment, Cinnamon, Myrrhe, Calamus and Cassia, nor the other in the holy perfume, Frankincense, Stacte, Onycha and Galbanum, so agreeably expounded unto those in use with us, as not to leave considerable doubts behind them. Nor must that perhaps be taken for a simple unguent, which _Matthew_ only termeth a precious oyntment; but rather a composition as _Mark_ and _John_ imply by pistick _Nard_ [SN: _V._ Mathioli. Epist.], that is faithfully dispensed, and may be that famous composition described by _Dioscorides_, made of oyl of Ben, Malabathrum, Juncus Odoratus, Costus, Amomum, Myrrhe, Balsam and Nard; which _Galen_ affirmeth to have been in use with the delicate Dames of _Rome_; and that the best thereof was made at _Laodicea_; from whence by Merchants it was conveyed unto other parts. But how to make out that Translation concerning the Tithe of Mint, Anise and Cumin, we are still to seek; for we find not a word in the Text that can properly be rendred Anise; the Greek being ἄνηθον, which the Latines call _Anethum_, and is properly Englished Dill. Lastly, What meteor that was, that fed the _Israelites_ so many years, they must rise again to inform us. Nor do they make it out [SN: _V._ Doctissimum Chrysostom. Magnenum de Manna.], who will have it the same with our Manna; nor will any one kind thereof, or hardly all kinds we read of, be able to answer the qualities thereof, delivered in the Scripture; that is, to fall upon