Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	aaron_n	signify_v	verse_n	254	4	10.0230	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64364	Of idolatry a discourse, in which is endeavoured a declaration of, its distinction from superstition, its notion, cause, commencement, and progress, its practice charged on Gentiles, Jews, Mahometans, Gnosticks, Manichees Arians, Socinians, Romanists : as also, of the means which God hath vouchsafed towards the cure of it by the Shechinah of His Son / by Tho. Tenison ...	Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.	1678 (1678)	Wing T704; ESTC R8	332,600	446

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〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d it_o be_v true_a such_o a_o breastplate_n there_o be_v in_o egypt_n and_o it_o be_v mention_v by_o diodorus_n siculus_n 66._o and_o aelian_a 34._o and_o diodorus_n suppose_v it_o to_o have_v consist_v of_o many_o gem_n but_o aelian_a call_v it_o a_o image_n make_v of_o a_o saphire_n it_o be_v also_o confess_v that_o the_o seventy_o interpreter_n 654._o do_v render_v thummim_a by_o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d but_o here_o two_o thing_n be_v to_o be_v observe_v first_o this_o egyptian_a pectoral_a deserve_v the_o name_n of_o truth_n it_o be_v put_v on_o as_o a_o ornament_n for_o the_o bench_n in_o the_o execution_n of_o justice_n and_o maintenance_n of_o truth_n as_o we_o learn_v from_o diodorus_n and_o aelian_a and_o not_o in_o order_n to_o the_o delivery_n of_o oracle_n may_v as_o well_o have_v be_v take_v from_o the_o breastplate_n of_o the_o highpriest_n of_o the_o jew_n there_o be_v no_o mention_n of_o it_o in_o herodotus_n and_o before_o the_o grecian_a 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