Either (Hastings' Dictionary)

L Now alternative, one or the other ■ in older Kng. 'either' was comprehensive, eocA <;/ c Scrivener, op. eit. cd. ill. n. 371. 0 Westcott and Hort, The A T in Ih* Original Oreek, aiialler ed. p. f)74. y Scrivener, op. eit. ed. Iv. vol. 11. p. 105 1. 1 Ciasca, op. eit. vol. I. ji. viil t. t Op. eit. vol. 11. p. xvili IT. t Op. cU. vol. II. p. xxxvi f •I Xachriehlen ron dcr K.O. d. W. tti OMtinifen, 1889, No. S, p. 4911. StcindorlT (op. eil. i 2) suiryicsta the end of the »r»'.

cent, as the date of tin* Coptic translation of the Bible.. Stern In his Critinche Antnfrkunijen zu der boheirischcn V'herKet. zttnij der I'rocerbia Salom'onii (ZAS, 1882, p. 101 fT.) con- jectures that the Boh. Version may be much later than the Sah., wliich, In part at least, was mudo In th" 3rd cent. (p. 201!) He thinks It possible that the Boh. and Sah. Versions may prov« to he based on some form of the M.E. {ZAS, 18SII, p. 136). 674 EKLR ELAM, ELA.

MITES turn, like its German equivalent 'jeder.' Thus Lv 10' ' Nailab ami Abiliu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer ' ; 1 K 7" ; Jn 19'" ' on eitlier side one,' and Rev 23" ' on either side of the river was there the tree of life.' Cf. Ridley, Bre/e Declaration (155D), p. 102 (Moule's ed.), 'as some of them do odiously call cither other ' — changed in the Oxf. ed. 1GS8 into ' each other.' 2. ' Either ' was formerly u.

sed to introduce the second or any later alternative, as well as the first ; so Ja 3'" and Ph 3'^ ' Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect' (RV 'or'); and so Lk 6^^ ' Either how canst thou say to thy brother' (RV 'Or'). In this sense 'either else' is also found, as Stubbes, Anat. Abus. ii. 10, 'Either else they would never be so desirous of revenge.' J. Hastings.