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 of them understood the Languages of those Countries of which they disputed? There were but two of the Ancient Fathers, that we know of, that pretended to Learning, who understood Hebrew accurately; Origen, and St. Hierom: And how well St. Hierom understood it, is now certainly known; not like the Lightfoot's, the Buxtorf's, the Drusius's, and the Cappell's of the present Age, one may be very well assured: The other Oriental Languages, even these Inquisitive Fathers knew very little, or nothing, of. To how good purpose they have been cultivated by the Moderns, the Writings of Selden, Bochart, Pocock, and several others, do abundantly declare. When Pocock and Golius went into the East, to bring away their Learning, they went to very good purpose indeed. The Bodleyan and Leyden-Libraries can witness what vast Heaps of Eastern MSS. have been brought by such Men as these, into Europe. One would think I were drawing up a Catalogue, not writing of a, if I should enumerate the Books which have been printed about the Oriental Learning, within these last Seventy Years: And how much they have enlightned all manner of Antiquity, is easie to tell.

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