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BY.—In the Authorized Version of is generally used for the agent and by for the instrument. Thus Mat_1:22 ‘that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘by’) the Lord by (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘through’) the prophet.’
In 1Co_4:4 ‘I know nothing by myself,’ by means contrary to, against, as in Hamilton’s Catechism, 1559 (the Tabil), ‘Jugis quhilk fur lufe of rewardis dols ony thing by the ordour of justice’; also fol. vii., ‘curslt ar thai quhilk gaogis by ye commondis of God.’