Chap. 30. An Expofition upon the Rieke of J o B. Vera. 4. 4y port ftrange things ofjuniper fire, both as to the extreamebeate of it, and the long continuance of it. The Scripture Teems to in. timate much that way(Pfa, t 20. 4.)where David (peakingof his angry enemies, faith, what ¡hall be givenunto thee ? or what ¡hall be done unto thee, thoufalje tongue ? Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of ?uniser (theft' ¡hall be given thee) As if he had laid, thou (halt have the hotteft coals, filch coales as will maintaine Aiumsx beat lorgeR, implying thatthe hotteft and lafting wrath ofGod Pero faffo, ear. fhould be their portion. Some Naturaliftsfay, the coals ofJunr- bone, tanta effe per rak'd up in the albas, will keepe fire a whole yeare; but I vi, re per an- Ra not upon this. awn integ'unt For though this tranflation,rheycut up juniper roots to burne, inc-,rruptum.tt carries a faire fence in it, yet fob here defcribing the mifery and scat. Conti affliâed condition of thofe men, could not have this meaning; C rd Osxer- for what misery is there in this to have Tweet Juniper rootes to it 3 Junipe,ï burne? Againe, had it been only to borne, what needed they to einere opens get the roots, feeing they might oilier cut downe not only the f,;; aaann><r,, bows, but the whole body ofthe tree for fire. Therefore (peak- perveniant. ing ofthe roots, it is more proper for feeding then burning. Hieron de- And fo I conceive rather, that there 7aniper roots were cut up 42' tnanf. for food , at Jeaft, that fenfe is intended ; and we may take it, as the former, for a proverbial! fpeech, not aridly for the thing it (elfe, as ifthey did feed upon thofe roots, but that they fed vary hardly; as we fay, Iwill make you rate_limes, that is, loch things as fame to have no more nourifhment then fiones ; Thus they did care ?uniperro.ts, that is, thofe things which had no more favour in them, then a flicke, or the roote of a tree, ,or a rotten poR. Hence obferve ; Firft Hunger will male meat of any thing. Mallows and. Juniper roots will got downe when hunger bath thoroughly whet the Appetite. Darius the Perfian Empe- roar being inextreame heate and thirft after his over-throw by Alexander, was glad ofa cupof puddle water, and Paid, It was the molt pleatànt draught that ever the had in all his life. It is good for us to remember this in the plenty and abundance of ail things which we cnjQy ; we who have the far, and the fweet, cornea
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