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Was not _Shylock_ a proper name among the Jews, derived from the designation employed by the patriarch Jacob in predicting the advent of the Messiah--
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? (Gen. xlix. 10.) The objection, which might be urged, that so sacred a name would not have been applied by an ancient Jew to his child, has not much weight, when we recollect that some Christians have not shrunk from the blasphemous imposition of the name _Emanuel_ (
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God with us ) upon their offspring. St. Jerome manifestly reads SHILOACH, for he translates it by _Qui mittendus est. (Lond. Encyc_. in voc.
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Shiloh.