' 00/if/tn///11Giw 11 Il/fl//i/ t,6 GENES is XXXVIII. ludahs mariage. requirmg,becaufe it is one of the four¿ things that are never fatisfied, Prov. 3o. 15,16. The Greeke, and new Tefament ufually tranflate it Hades, or Haider, which word is by change of letters, for- med of the Hebrew Adam, and Adamah, the earth, unto which for finne,God had condemned Adam and all his race toretorne, Gen. 3.19. For fo it the firft booke of the ancient Greeke oracles of Sibylla, it is laid : They cal! it Haden, far that Adam fish 'rtent thither when hetafeddeath. As Abram, is in Greche Habram, Gen.12.1. and Habraam,Luke 3.34. and Mizraim, in Greeke is Mifrain,Gen. i o. 6. Hemam, is Harman, Gen.36.22. fo of Adam they formed Heiden, and after the Greek termination, Haider,or Hades: fuch change of letters are ufuall. The Chaldee paraphrafe, (when it keepeth not the Hebrew word ) molt commonly tranflateth it, the haufeofthegrave, or place of burial(. Our En- gli(h commeth from the old Saxon or German word Hell : in which tongues originally Hell fig - nifieth High and Deepe,Leh,is Pew : and fo it mean- eth a low or ¿tepe place; and agreeth with the Hebr. Sheol, which is Paid to be Lam and Dope, Deat.32. 22. Job 11.8. And as death is appointed for all men, fo is this Sired, Pfal. 89.49. Ecclef. 9.1 a, as death is fometime dehred of the godly, fo lob de- lired to be hid in Sheol, Job 14..13. By this Hell, therefore in Scripture, is not meant the place of the damned onely , but of all that got out of this world; as SibjUg in the fore -named place, faith, All earthly men are faid togoe into he houfes ofHaides. And as for the wicked,they have aprifin,a Pet. 3. 19. and place of torments , in hell, Luke 16.23. which theScripture calleth everlaffing fire, Match. 2 5.4 1.ßc by another Hebr.name,Gebenna: wherof fee Mat.5 .22. the Greeks called that place,7arta- i rot, Homer. Iliad. 8. unto which word the Apoftle hath reference in 2 Per.2.4.Tartarofae, He oaf' them dorm( to Hell or)intoTartarus.So on the contraty, Heaven is not only the place of theAngels, and holy men,but generally all above ns,as the ayre, fpheares, &c. where the fowles flye,and the ftmilc and liars run their courfes.as is Chewed on Gen.'. 7. and the place of joyes in heaven, is called the garden of Ede, orParadife, Luke 23.43. to which the heathens alluded by the garden ofAlrinoto: Ho- mer,OdyJf. 7. ladpb therefore by going downe to Hell, meaneth a departing out of this life, into the common place and ffateof death, whither all muff goe. So after in Gen. 42.38. & 44. 29,3J. Sec allo the Annotations on Pfal.tS.io. e Vert 36. .Lledanites] which were the pofteritie of Medan, the fonne, of Abraham, and brethren to. the Midianite: before mentioned, ver.28. Gen.2 f . s,2.thefe were mixed in dwelling with the l.Cma.. elites,as they were generally before called in ver. 25. Eunuch] properly and commonly, this word is ufed for a gelded man, Efa.5 6.3,4,5. Mat. 19.12. and is borrowed of the Greeke Euaouchos, which Ignificth, a keeper of the bed,or Chamberlain¿: in Hebrew he is called Saris. Such gelded men they tiled to have in Kings courts, for Chamber- lains to keep their women, Eflh.2.3. & 4.4. But in lJrael, the Law allowed not fur h,Deut. 23. I. Through cuttomc, the name was allo given to o- ther chide officers and courtiers , as here to Peel - phar, who was a maried man,Gen.39.7. and after to the Kings chiefs Butler and Baker, Gen. 40. a. Therefore theChaldee here tranflates it,Rebbo, a Prima, or Officer.. Provofl MarJhal'] or, Prince of the flaughter men, or Galtaine of else Guard: he was an officer that kept malefaftors in prifon,Gen.4o.3. and was Pent with a band of men, to doeexecuti- on upon rebels,2 King.2 5.8, r 0. Or,as the Greek tranflateth it, theehi0 Cooke: for fo the Hebrew word is Corned= uled for a Coakthat killeth and dreffeth meat, I Sant.9.2 3. & 8.13 d'MILWú:MAMAIMAD4Akt CHAP. XXXVIII. I, ladeo marietb a Caneanitefe, and beçettetb of her Er, Onan, and Selab. 6, Er marietb Thamar, and di- etls. 8, Onan marietb her ; and for Spilling hie feed, the Lordflayeth him. ti, Thamar f ayeeh fer Selah , but it not given to him to wife ; 13, wherefore fire deceivetb lesdue, who fuppofrng her to be an whore, Ileib with ber. 24, He bearing fhe was with chidde, would have bad ber burnt; 26, but knowing himfelfe to he the father, bee 'acknowledged, his faith. 27 , She bearetb trams, Pbarez and Zarah. ANd it was in that time ; that Judah went downe from his brethren : and turned -iu to a man an Adullamite and his name woe Hirah. And Judah Caw there, a daughter of a man a Canaanite, and his name MPS Shuah : and he tooke her, and went -in unto her. And thee eived, and bare a Con : and he called his name Er. And thee conceived againei and bare a fon: and Thee called his name Onan. And thee added againe, and bare a fonne; and the called his name, Selah : and he was in Chezib, when thee bare him. And Judah tooke a wife , to Er his fish borne: and her namew,u Tha- mar. And Er Judahs fir(t borne,was evill in the eyes of Jehovah : and Jehovah flew him. And Judah laid unto Onan; goe in unto thy brothers wife,and marry her : and raife -up- feed to thy brother. And Onan knew, that the feed thould not be his : and it was,when hee went in unto his brothers wife, that het fpilled it on the earth;that he might not give feed to his brother. And that which he did, was evill in the eies of Jehovah : and he flew him alto. And Judah Paid to Thamar his daughter in law : Remain a widow in thy fathers houle ; till Selah my fon, be grown - great ; for he laid, left he alfo die,as his bre- thren: and Thamat went, and remained, in her fathers houle. And the dales were multiplied; and the daughter of Shua Judahs wife, a 3 4 i 6 7 8 9 Io II 12 / ,/.!/ / / //N/ / /// /10íl1111111111 /
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