146 Verf 4- 4n Expofition upon theBookof J 0B. Chap. I, turn he pictis andchoofcth.. There was a day, it intimate d y =1111 extraordinary, and there is an exprefs addition in the Original, L which puts an emphafis upon-it,aud makes it more then a day,there was that day, or Jpecial day : So it is ufed 2 King. 4. 8. And itfeü on a day that Elifka palled to Shunem, or upon that day, a notable day wherein fo many great things were done. But what day was this?It is explained in the words; in the lat- ter part ofthe verfe.It was a notable day,for it was a day, or that day, When hisfoes and his daughterswere eating and drinking wine in their eldeft brothers boure. There are three things in thbfe words, which prove that this was an extraordinary day. r. Ifwas a feaíting day, and leafing dayes are extraordinary dayes. z. It was an extraordinary, not an ordinary leafing day; for it is Paid, theywere eating and drinking Wine,. In,the beginningof the Chapter (where the leafs offob's Children are defcribed) it is Paid only, That hisfo swent every one their day to eat and to drink: But here it is.faid that they did eat, and drink, wine: whichnotes an 'extraordinary feat. For 1 i11 in Scripture whenwe read ofa banquet of wine:, or a feaft ofwine, an exrraordinary feaít is meant QueenEither invited. the King and Haman to a Etl. ;. d. banquet tfovine , not that there was nothing but wine at the ban- quet,but that addition did imply,that it was a plentiful banquet, -a fòletnn,banquet.. It is more to tnake.a banquet ofwine, then to make a banquet,though fcarceany banquet is made without wine. Joh. 2.4. So when there wanted wine, the.folemnity and glory ofthefeaft was thought. to be blemifbed, They have no wine,faith themother ofChrift unto him at the marriage feaft in Cana, And when the Spoufe would fet forth the wonderful fulnefs.offpiritual delights, cant..,z, 4. which fhe had from Chrift, the expreffeth it thus, Hebrought me into the banqueting houfe, the Hebrew word is, be brought me into the, of wine ; . the houfe of wine notes extraordinary fpiritual refrefhing. What abanquet had the Spoufe for her foul there ? Chrift called her to eat and drink abundantly, to be filled with his love.See the like IJa.25.6.So jobs childrenwere eating, and drinking_wine,fc:theywere at aplentiful and folemn leaf that day. 3 It was a day offeafting in their eldeft brothers houfe, that as another thing which proves it wasan extraordinary feaft dayy, it
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