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if. Greek. ean. App-118.
beast. Greek. therion, not zoon.
touch. See Heb_11:28.
or thrust through, &c. All the texts omit. No doubt this is because of the complex Ellipsis. In Exo_19:13 we read, "There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live". The work on "Figures of Speech" makes it clear thus: "And if so much as [a man, or] a beast touch the mountain [if a man] he shall be stoned or [if a beast] thrust through with a dart".