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Aminadab (II)

II. AMINADAB. The Chariots of Aminadab are mentioned in the Canticles, as being extremely light. Or ever I was aware, my Soul made me like the Chariots Cant. vi. 12.of Aminadab1. He was very probably a celebrated Charioteer, whose horses were singularly swift.

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  1. Translators’ note. The Vulgate reads it thus, Anima mea conturbavit me propter quadrigas Aminadab; and our Septuagints, ἅρματα Ἀμιναδάβ*; but the Vatican Edition reads it thus*, ἔθου με εἰς ἅρματα λαοῦ ἡγουμένου*; which is a sense the* Hebrew will admit of, .שמהני מרכבות עם נדיב ↩

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