The Masorets, by their great care and diligence, have left us an edition of the Old Testament, which secures the text from all interpolations, while it checks also the licentiousness of conjectural criticism, and gives a definite meaning to many obscure passages; at the same time, it by no means precludes the labours of the learned from aiming at greater accuracy in their attempts to understand Scripture, as the sense which the Masorets may have put upon any passage can only be said to be highly probable: the meaning of Scripture in all cases being derivable from the words, and not from the vowel points, or any arbitrary divisions.

Depending on frost conditions, groundwater may be grouped in three classes: superfrost, interfrost and subfrost.

It is a matter for it to determine whether to make such application, whereafter the Trial Chamber will determine whether the material is so admissible

He was pink-cheeked, pink-handed and pink-nosed, all of which combined with his delft-blue eyes to make him look like a mature kewpie.