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employed in Eph . v . 19 , to signify , tc striking the harp or ly » e , singing to the stringed instruments ; for ( he continues , ) it is properly spoken respecting the touching of
stringed instruments , as psallere also among the Latins . Thus Horace say s Psallimus et luctamur Achivis doctius unctis ; and again , doctoe psallere Chire" Stephens also refers to Aulus Gellius as above
quoted . NAfter mentioning some more general meanings of ^ ctXkuo ( such as to move , to shake , ) he states that not only the chord is said iLaAXstrdat when it is touched
and moved , but any one qtaWerau to whom we sing with instruments , to whom we play on the harp , who hears any one playing or singing with instruments . If the learned
reader will consult H . Stephens on the derivatives of this verb , he can scarcely fail I think , to come to the eoeeltiskm , t-ba-t- ai » ong the Greek writers hi getierai , ( excluding only those who lived long after the apostolic age ) the constant force of the word , when applied to
rriusie , was playing upon instruments , or ( at most ) singing with instruments * And' I believe the same may be said with confidence as t < 5 the use of the word ift the LXX .
They have , it is true , frequently employed it as the translation of xemsr ( to sing , with or without musical instriiiaents ) as well as of ff £ g £ tz , ( to play on instruments , or sing with them , ) but as they must understand the force of their own
language , I can see little room to doubt , but that they deployed
_*_ ~—¦ - . j — . . Eph . c . 5 . KoCKovvtss—iw xvpity , canentes ct psallentes Domiftti itt dorde vestro : id eat , citharam seu lyram pulsaptes ; fidibus canentcs : prop * ie ctimV * c .
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•\ s < zW ( jj as the translation of the former of these verbs , only where they considered it as denoting sing * ing with instruments . And I am inclined to think , that if the learned reader will consult Trommiu *
for the use of this word and its derivatives in the Septuagint , and will take into account , what a * clearly appears from H . Stephen ? was the invariable use of it among the heathen Greeks , he must come to the conclusion that thfc
Alexandrian translators employed it , with little , if any , exception , to denote playing on instrumental music , or singing with it . —Yctki&Of ( psalmos )) a psalm , properly signifies , says Schleusner , J , a touching ,
a striking ,- ihe striking of a stringed ifistf umerit , the sound of the same : 2 , the ttiusic&l instrument which is struck , the harp : 3 , a regular sorig , cortfposedaftifictatly in numbers , and with ffrytfrrti , fitted both for the human voice and for
musical instruments , ason g ^ a hymti . r tfhis word is especially employed itt tfie New Testament * in reference to the collection of Psalms in the Old Testament . Park burst
gives , 1 , a touching or playing npott a musical instrument : 2 , a psalm , or sacred song or poem , properly such a one as is sung to stringed instruments .
N . B . I have just seen , in Mr . Yates ' s sermon at the opening of the Unitarian Chapel in Glasgow , a reference made ( in a note ) '' to the remarks of an ancHiyftiotis writer ort the meaning of the word ¦ vJ / aAAu ; , in the New Testament /*
Before the close of my communications on the subject , I hope to avail myself of the information which is prbbably contained in the late publications respecting it in Glasgow . * If the conclusions of
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46 On the Use of Vocdl and Instrumental Music in Public Worship .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/46/
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