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Excerpt from A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Books of the New Testament, Vol. 3 of 4: Briefly Explaining All the Difficult Places Thereof
The Gospel] What the word Eba'y'ye'htov in Greek (which we render Gospel) signifies among authors, is ordinarily known, viz. From mi and aware, good news or good tidings. Thus the angel speaks of the birth of Christ, in relation to all that should follow after it, Luke ii. 10, Ebayyekc'gopat bn'iu xapdv peyqv, I bring you good tidings of great joy, i. E. Very joyful good tidings. Only in this sacred use of it there seems to be a metonymy, or figure very ordinary, whereby the word that signifies good news is set to denote the history of that good news, the birth and life and resurrection of Christ, which, all put together, is that joyful good news or tidings. As for our English word gospel, which the Saxon read gobrpel, that is compounded of God and spel; the word gob among the Saxons signifying good as well as God, and no difference being discernible in the writing of those two words among them, unless that when it is taken for God it hath an e after it. So in the treatise De Veteri Testamento, gobe yr eall gob, aelc gob C1mb op p1m, God is all good, and all good cometh of him; according to the notion of most nations, the heathens calling God Optimus, the best, and Christ, according to the Jewish notion, telling the young man that there was none good save God only. As for the other part of it, spel, it seems to signify word among the Saxons, as when b151'pe1, Deut. Xxviii. 37, and psalm lxxix. 14, signifies a byword or proverb, or, as it is still used in the north, byspell. So in the treatise De Vet. Test. Among Solomon's writings, an yr papabole 13 yr bigrpel boc, one is proverbs, i. E. Byspell book; and again, pirebomey b1grpel, byspell ofvi Annotations on The Gospel according to St. Matthew.
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