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.