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certainly otherwise one could scarcely trace any etymology back to Hebrew." Of course, by this method of philological juggling, anything could be proved which the author thought necessary to his pious purpose.
Two years later, Andrew Willett published at London his Hexapla, or Sixfold Commentary upon Genesis.

In this he insists that the one language of all mankind in the beginning "was the Hebrew tongue preserved still in Heber's family." He also takes pains to say that the Tower of Babel "was not so called of Belus, as some have imagined, but of confusion, for so the Hebrew word ballal signifieth"; and he quotes from St.Chrysostom to strengthen his position.
In 1627 Dr.Constantine l'Empereur was inducted into the chair of Philosophy of the Sacred Language in the University of Leyden.

In his inaugural oration on The Dignity and Utility of the Hebrew Tongue, he puts himself on record in favour of the Divine origin and miraculous purity of that language.

"Who," he says, "can call in question the fact that the Hebrew idiom is coeval with the world itself, save such as seek to win vainglory for their own sophistry ?" Two years after Willett, in England, comes the famous Dr.Lightfoot, the most renowned scholar of his time in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin; but all his scholarship was bent to suit theological requirements.