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 idiom." He says, "It is well known that the words a woman to her sister are a Hebrew idiom, an expression peculiar to the language. The corresponding phrase, a man to his brother, occurs twenty-five times in the Hebrew Scriptures, and is translated generally as in the following examples:

Those are some of the examples given by this writer to prove that two sisters are not intended in the verse under discussion, though they are named! And what shadow of proof do his examples furnish? Besides, what he calls a "Hebrew idiom," "is well known" by the learned to be no idiom at all. The examples he gives are idiomatic, because they all refer to many or several persons or things, not to two persons only, and all are, as the reader will see, preceded by a plural nominative. [sic] followed by a plural verb; but the phrase in Leviticus xviii. 18, is not idiomatic,—refers to two persons only, a woman and her sister, or two sisters,—has a singular nominative with a singular verb, and followed by the words "her nakedness, besides her, in her life time;" not having the least resemblance to the phrases: "The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another, and other five curtains shall he coupled one to another." The late learned Revd. Dr., (elder brother of the Revd. Dr. of the Toronto University) Professor of Divinity and Hebrew Literature in King's College, London, has remarked,—"When the words, 'a woman to her sister,' or in the masculine form, 'a man to his brother,' are used idiomatically to signify 'one