Elsewhere event is found only in the sense of ' issue,' ' result,' Wis 8" ' [Wisdom] foreseeth . . . the events of seasons and times ' (^x/Jdo-fis) ; 2 Mac 9-^ ' expect what shall be the event ' (rd airo^riabixe- vov). I'liis, which is the common meaning of Lat. event%is, is most frequent in writers of the time of AV, as Shaks. T. of Shrew, III. ii. 126—
' I'U after him, and see the event of this.'
The mod. sense of an occurrence is very rare in writers of the period. Carlyle quotes Cromwell {Letters, 12 Sept. 1650) '[We do not think] of tlie liand of the great God in this mighty and strange appearance of His ; but can slightly call it an "event."' J. HASTINGS.
EYERLASTINGNESS. — For CYerlasting see EsCHATOI.ooY. ' Everl.astingness,' once common for 'eternity,' is now used only where its special signification is emphasized, as Cheyne, Isaiah, i. 242, ' The idea of the divine everlastingness is one of the primary notes of the proiihecy.' It occurs only 2 Es 8'-"' ' O Lord, thou that dwellest in ever- hustingne.ss ' (qui inhabitas sa^culum, RV 'abide.st for ever,' llVm ' iiiliabitest eternity '). Wye. (1388) translates Is 57" 'For the Lord liigh, and enliaunsid, seith these things, that dwellith in euerlastyngnesse.' J. Hastings.
EVERY is occasionally found in AV where mod.
u.sage demands 'each,' as 2 S 21™ 'a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes ' ; 2 Ls 3'° ' it came to pa-ss in every of lliem' (RV omits) ;t Rev 21-' 'every several gate was of one pearl ' (RV ' each one of the .several gates'). Cf. Cranmer, fVorks, i. Ill, ' In my right hearty wise I commend me unto you, and likewise
* The line of an Assyr. Bab. magical text is oft«n renil as,
*The woman from the loins of the man they bring forth,*
and mioted as a parallel to the formation of Eve from the ribs of Adam. But when this line is correctly tr. and read in its context, the parallel entirely disappears; 'they' are demons, and the paasai,'0 narrates their ubi^viity and mischief ; thev enter houses through locked doom, like a snake or the wind, and
* A woman (who is] at the loins (T) of a man they lead away. A child [who is) at tlii> knee of a man they draw forth. A noble [who is] at the house of his kindred they drive out.'
J. D. Davis, ilenesU aid .*?rm. Trad. 49.
See throughout, Oa/. Ueb. Lex. .ijri, Dillm. on On 320 4'.
t Cf. T. Elyot, The Govfmotir, ii. 4, ' he niaclo as w«l thi great us the snial, and careth (or euery of theui equally.'
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to everich * of you.' Cf. also Ex So'" ' every wise hearted among you.'
Trench (^On the Auth. Ver. 0/ XT, p. 63) pointe out that both 'each' and 'every' take occasionally plu. concords, as Ph . "23 ' Let each esteem other better than themselves ' ; Rev 201* "They were judjjed every man according to their works.' He adds, ' "each " and " every," though alike implying many, alike resolve that many into its units, and refer to it in these its constituent parts, with only the difference that " each " segregates, and " every " aggregates, the units which compi ise
it- J. Hastings.
EVI ('IK 'desire' (?)).— One of the five kings of Midian slain, Nu 318, jog 1321 (eW) P.
EVIDENCE, EVIDENTLY.— FoUowing Cover- dale, AV has translated nsD, sSpher (lit. ' book ') by ' evidence ' in Jer 32"'- "• ^ » '"•• '«• ". Tlie meaning is ' title-deeds.' Coke (1628) says, ' Writings under seale, as Charters and Deeds, and other writings without seale, as Court Kolles, Accounts, and the like . . . are called Evidences.' KV gives 'deed' throughout. Cf. T. Adams, // Peter, p. 23 (on P), ' Therefore a man should be often perusing and looking over his own evidence, as we review our assurances of worldly possessions, that he may be sure of the wliole and every part of it : for it is dangerous to have any flaw or defect in our con- veyance of salvation.'
' Evidence ' is also the tr. of fKeyxo% in its single occurrence in NT, He 11' (RV 'proving,' RVm 'test') 'Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' This is the Bishops' tr", Wyclif having ' an argument of thingis not apery nge,' Tind. ' a certayntie of thinges which are not sene,' Gen. 'sheweth evi- dently the things which are not sene.'
' Evidently ' is the tr" of ipavep^s, Ac 10" ' He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him' (RV ' openly ') ; and of the prep, irpo- in trpoeypictit]. Gal 3' ' before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evi- dently set forth crucified' (RV 'openly'). In both places ' evidently ' has the obsol. meaning of 'clearly,' 'distinctly, as in Knox, Hist. 261, 'And lest that your Honors should doubt in any of these memises, we offer ourselves evidently to prove, That,' etc. J. Hastings.