Excerpt from A Key to the Old Testament and Apocrypa: Or an Account of Their Several Books, Their Contents and Authors, and of the Times in Which They Were Respectively Written Testament signifies covenant, agreeably to the import of the Hebrew word Berith. Hieronymus in Malach. Cap. Ii. Ver. 5. Tom. Iii. P. 1817. Edit. Paris, 1704. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.