[The explanation usually given, after Gesenius, is that early copyists mistook ΝΑΥΝ for ΝΑΥΗ; and as some MSS. have Ναβί and Ναβή, it is supposed that later copyists thought that it was the the Hebrew איבכ.]
"_M. Lominus, Theologus._"--Is there any printed account of this divine, or of a work on the Pelagian and Manichæan heresies which he published at Ghent in 1675?
[The Bodleian Library contains a work by M. Lominus, entitled, _Blakloanæ Hæresis Historia et Confutatio_. 4to. Gandavi, 1675.]
1. Without wishing to protract the discussion about _eisell_, let me tell the correspondent who questioned whether wormwood could be an ingredient in any palatable drink, that _crême d'absinthe_ ordinarily appears with noyau, &c. in a Parisian restaurateur's list of luxurious cordials. Whilst that _eisell_ was equivalent to wormwood is confirmed by its being joined with gall, in a page of Queen Elizabeth's book of prayers, which caught my eye in one of those presses in the library of the British Museum, where various literary curiosities are now so judiciously arranged, and laid open for public inspection.
2. As a decisive affirmation of what _rack_ meant, where the word was the derivative of the Saxon pecan, your correspondents may accept the following from our martyr, Frith's, _Revelation of Antichrist_. He renders the second clause of 2 Peter ii. 17., "And racks carried about of a tempest;" and he immediately adds, "Racks are like clouds, but they give no rain."
3. In answer to MR. BREEN'S inquiry where there is any evidence from the writings of Gregory I., that he could be so shameless as to panegyrise that female monster Queen Brunéhaut, he may read some of that Pope's flattering language in his letter addressed to her on behalf of that Augustine whom he sent to England, as contained in Spelman's _Concilia_. Epist. xvii. (_Brunichildæ, Reginæ Francorum_) begins as follows:
"Gratias omnipotenti Deo referimus, qui inter cætera pietatis suæ dona, quæ excellentiæ vestræ largitus est, _ita vos amore Christianæ religionis implevit, ut quicquid ad animarum lucrum_, quicquid ad propagationem fidei pertinere cognoscitis, _devota mente et pio operari studio_ non cessetis.... Et quidem hæc de Christianitate vestra mirentur alii, quibus adhuc beneficia vestra minus sunt cognita; nam nobis, quibus experimentis jam nota sunt, non mirandum est, sed gaudendum."--Spelm. _Concil._ p. 82.