Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1821 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. Of Dr. Walton's Assistants. I. "the next book to the Polyglot Bible for labour and worth, and which is always to be named with it, is the Heptaglot Lexicon of Dr. Castell." Such is the just remark of a biographer of Dr. Lightfoot. Indeed, in the Preface to the Polyglot, Dr. Walton speaks of this Lexicon "prospectively as a supplement to his own work. With notices of Dr. Castell, therefore, the present chapter may properly begin. Dr. Edmund Castle, or Castell, was a younger son of Robert Caste-, Esq. of East Hatley, in the county of Cambridge; where he was born in 1606. He became a pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1621; from which he removed, many years afterwards, to St. John's College, for the advantage, as some have said, of the library there. In the early part of his life, he had been Vicar of Hatfield-Peverell, in Essex; and afterwards Rector of Woodham-Walter, in the same county; both which he resigned at different periods. He was also Rector of HighamGobion, in Bedfordshire; which benefice he retained till his death. He was appointed professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge in 1666, and a prebendary of Canterbury in 1667. He was also chaplain in ordinary to king Charles the second. Possessed of these honours, he died in 1685. m " Ne quis ver6 Grammatical et Lexica singularum linguarum desideret, quo fructus uberior ex hoc opere pcrcipiatur, (licet haec ad Opus Biblicum proprie non pertineant, ) viri quidam docti et linguarum periti, qui in hoc edition Of tram fidetem nobis prastiterunt, in animo habent aliud volumen edere; in quo, prater Grammaticalia pracepta etiam Linguarum Orientalium quae in Bibliis nostris occurwnt, Lexicon generate absolutum Hebraica, Samaritans, Chaldaica; Syriacte, Arabicte, Mthiopica, et P..."
