REPUTARE. This Word is, in some measure, consecrated to signify the reputed or imputed Righteousness of Abraham ; according Rom. iv. 3.to that of St. Paul ; Credidit Abraham Deo, & reputatum est ei in justitiam.
Reputare is also put for the Notion or Gen. xxxi. 15.Idea we have conceived of any one. Nonne extraneæ reputatæ sumus ab eo? Has he not treated us as if we were not his Daughters?
Reputare is also used for speaking or 1 Sam. xviii. 17.thinking within one’s self: Saul autem reputabat inter se ; Saul said within himself ; I will not put him to Death, but I will expose him to the Arms of the Philistines. Aman reputans quod nullum alium Rex, nisi se, vellet Esth. vi. 6.honorare ; Haman imagined, that the King thought of honouring none but him.
Jesus Christ, at his Passion, was numbred Mark xv. 28. Mark x.12 2 Chron. ix. 20.with the Transgressors : Cum iniquis reputatus est. Under Solomon’s Government, Gold and Silver were reputed as nothing in Jerusalem. If a Fool did but know how to hold his Tongue, he would be reputed a wise Prov. xvii. 28. Gen.x. 12.Man.