_David's Mother_ (Vol. viii., p. 539.).--The following comment on this
point is taken from vol. i. p. 203. of the Rev. Gilbert Burrington's
_Arrangement of the Genealogies of the Old Testament and Apocrypha_, Lond.
1836, a learned and elaborate work:
"In 2 Sam. xvii. 25., Abigail is said to be the daughter of Nahash, and
sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother; but in 1 Chron. ii. 16., both Zeruiah
and Abigail are said to be the daughters of Jesse; we must conclude,
therefore, with Cappell, either that the name [Hebrew: NCHSH], Nahash,
in 2 Sam. xvii. 25., is a corruption of [Hebrew: YSHY], Jesse, which is
the reading of the Aldine and Complutensian Editions, and of a
considerable number of MSS. of the LXX in this place or that Jesse had
two names, as Jonathan in his Targum on Ruth iv. 22. informs us; or
that Nahash is not the name of the father, but of the mother of
Abigail, as Tremellius and Junius imagine; or, lastly, with Grotius, we
must be compelled to suppose that Abigail, mentioned as the sister of
Zeruiah in 2 Sam., was a different person from Abigail the sister of
Zeruiah, mentioned in 1 Chron., which appears most improbable."
[Greek: Halieus].
Dublin.
_Anagram_ (Vol. vii., p. 546.).--Some years since I purchased, at a
book-stall in Cologne, a duodecimo (I think it was a copy of Milton's
_Defensio_), on a fly-leaf of which was the date 1653, and in the neat
Italian hand of the period the following anagram. The book had probably
belonged to one of the English exiles who accompanied Charles II. in his
banishment. I have never met with it in any collection of anagrams hitherto
published. Perhaps some of your numerous readers may have been more
fortunate, and can give some account of it.
"Carolus Stuartus, Angliæ, Scotiæ, et Hiberniæ Rex,
Aulâ, statû, regno exueris, ac hostili arte necaberis."