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SirDennisC
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Dec 27 2014, 6:49pm

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First thank you for the reference to Patience as I've never bothered with it before.

The first line of Part III would seem to further contradict the "prophet of the Gentiles" idea: "Now is Ionas že Iwe Iugged to [to] drowne;" (Now is Jonah the Jew Judged to be drowned;)

However, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary:

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gentile (n.) late 14c., "chivalrous person; member of the nobility;" see gentile (adj.). Also used during 14c. to mean both "one who is not a Christian" and "one who is not a Jew."

gentile (adj.) mid-13c., "noble, kind, gracious" (mid-12c. as a surname); late 14c., "of noble rank or birth, belonging to the gentry," from Late Latin gentilis "foreign, heathen, pagan," from Latin gentilis "person belonging to the same family, fellow countryman," from gentilis (adj.) "of the same family or clan," from gens (genitive gentis) "race, clan" (see gentle).


I guess it matters whether ientyle was intended as an adjective or noun in the line you cited.

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