The history of the Celtic language. Wherein it is shown to be based upon natural principles, and, elementarily considered, contemporaneous with the infancey of the human family ... / By L. Maclean.

  • Maclean, L. (Lachlan), Fellow of the Ossianic Society.
Date:
1840
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    1 Samuel viii. 10, judged. In Psalm ix. 19, judged; “ Let the heathen be judged in thy sight.” In Proverbs xxix. 9, to contend; “ If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man.” In Isaiah lix. 4, to plead ; “ None calleth for justice nor pleadeth for truth.” It also constitutes part of the term Jehoshaphat, which term is allowed to be resolvable into Jehovah, and Judge, or Judgment-of Jehovah. Here it will naturally occur to the reader, Why ren¬ der the Hebrew word speech in one solitary instance, and in every other place a matter of judgment or opinion? The scriptures were infallibly writ, but subject to misconstructions and mistranslations. In the history of Paul’s voyage, for example, we have ccyzvpccg rzcaccgccc, i.e. Aghuras tessaras, ren¬ dered “ four anchors.” “ Then fearing they should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern,” Acts xxvii. 29. Calmet says the text should have been rendered “ the four-fluked anchor.” Acair teasairg in Celtic means literally the safety anchor ! The radicals t, s, r, are sacred. With regard to whether she would have weathered the billows fully as well with her prow to it is another question. That there was a confusion of tongues no one will doubt, but this was consequent upon the affair at Babel. It stood in the same relation to the dispersion, as cause does to effect. This is not a new doctrine, much less our doctrine. <£ Will the history,” says Calmet, “ bear the following