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 and the passages discussed above,. In the text is corrupt.

(e) By the passive, e.g.  (was it begun=) began men to call upon, &c. (but read ).

4. A peculiar idiom, and one always confined to poetic language, is the not infrequent occurrence of two subjects in a verbal sentence, one of the person and the other of the thing. The latter then serves—whether it precedes or follows—to state the instrument, organ, or member by which the action in question is performed, and may be most often rendered in English by an adverb, as a nearer definition of the manner of the action. All the examples of this kind have this in common, that the subject denoting the thing takes a suffix in the same person as the personal subject. They are thus distinguished from the accusatives treated in, with which they are often confused.

(a) Examples where the subject denoting the thing precedes, my voice—I cry unto the Lord, i.e. I cry aloud unto the Lord,, , ; —I cried, i.e. I cried aloud,  (cf. 17:10);  , i.e. fervently, and parallel with it ; but   is rather a periphrasis for the 1st pers. I.

(b) Where the subject denoting the thing follows, —thy voice (i.e. aloud), ; so also after an imperative,  and verse 14 ; 60:7, 108:7 ; after a perfect,  ; after a cohortative,. The subject denoting the thing stands between the personal subject and the predicate in.

Rem. 1. Sometimes (as in other languages) an action is ascribed to a subject which can only have been performed at his direction by another