Part II. Containing the Authors who treat of the Jewish Antiquities, of the Laws and Customs of the Hebrews, of their Religion, Polity, Militia, Geography, and Sacred History; of the Plants, Animals, precious Stones, Weights, Measures, Diseases, &c. mentioned in Scripture

THERE is something in this Second Part more agreeable than in the First. In that every thing is crabbed and difficult: The Reader is told of large Volumes, which are to be run through; such as Bibliotheques which we call Sacred, of learning strange and unknown Languages, that gave St. Jerome so much trouble, as he himself confesses, and made Part of his austere Penance; of the Necessity of forming the first Ideas of the Holy Scriptures by the help of Introductions, Prolegomena, and Dissertations, and of learning the right way of interpreting them. Here every thing is curious and agreeable: There is no farther occasion for hard Study; there is no more to do, but to run over small Treatises, in order to learn with Pleasure many things absolutely necessary to the understanding a great number of Passages in Scripture, which are difficult to be explained.