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ILLUSTRATION OF ECCLESIASTICUS XXVI . 27 ^ " A loud crying woman and a scold , &c . " To the Editor of the Monthly Repository \ Sir ,
I believe the following passage from the 26 th of Ecclesiasticus , ver . 27 , has puzzled commentators : * A loud crying woman and a scold shall be sought out to drive away the enemies , " It undoubtedly refers to some custom formerly prevalent in the East . I do not , however , remember , to have seen an elucidation of it either in Harmer , or other writers who have undertaken to explain difficult passages in the Bible by a reference to the manners and customs of the inhabitants of Eastern nations . By a modern traveller of credit it is said that at Benares and "
the adjacent provinces , a person , desirous of dispossessing a tenant from his house , and who is unwilling to wait the tedious process of the Jaw , applies for the assistance of a woman who by profession is a notorious scold . This woman posts ^ herself at sun-rising opposite the tenant ' s dwelling , and there pours forth every species of abuse against the poor man that she
can invent . This conduct draws together the populace , whose applause she receives in proportion to her vociferation and perseverance , for which she is amply rewarded by her employer . "Whenever the woman has occasion to retire for the purposes * of refreshment , she plants her staff in the ground opposite the
house , which , through a singular superstition , none dare remove , or even touch during her absence , and on her return * she re-commences the attack , and thus continues from day tot day , till the man is glad to give his landlord possession of the house . There is , I think , an evident allusion in the passage above cited to this oriental mode of ejecting tenants from thcip dwellings . I am , Sir ^ your ' s ,,
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the contrary , if os be the apostle s word ^ he meant to apply It here to Jesus Christ .
Whitby , Doddridge , and others have translated the passage , according to the present Greek copies , who is , and applied it to the spirit , without giving any reason why they have rejected the common translation , and without attempting to account for the use of the masculine pronoun in such a construction .
This pronoun Trinitarians have urged as a proof of the proper personality of the Holy Spirit ; but of the strength of such reasoning let the reader , after considering the foregoing observations , judge . J . M .
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372 Illustration of Kcclesiasticus xxvi . 27 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/36/
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