Chap 3. AnExpoj;tion upon the Bookof J O B. Verf. felfwill awake the morning; as if he fhould fay; the morning fball bantúc apud not awaken me, but I will awaken the morning ; the morning P (hall not find me fleepiog, but I will be up firfi, and call up the adhrberi f morning. 'So thofe mourners ufed to awake early in the morning, runt funari , or rather to awaken the morning ;and theyhad one woman whom mereede rondu- they called (Prefica) the Leader, the firfi or the chiefof the quire £læ, ut (7fe- and company ofmourners (plangendi MagiJlra) whore office ó'tia it was rent andrent. to call up and bring on the refs. It appears in the Gofpel ofMat- Noinus v arc. tbew,that the Jews (in thofe times) ufed to call in mulick to their e prrfìcs mournin g s For when Chrifi carne to the Rulers houle whotè returánrilnis daughter was dead, the Text faith, Heraw iI3 - inffrels and the q e adme rum people making noire, (Mat. 9.23. ) And lofephus relating the prefiraefldir- fiory ofhis own fuppofed death, thews how all the City off eru- ta: Valle... Talent continued a mourning for him thirty days. And he adds, nAffsus ¿s; Fu- direHly to this point that many Mulicians were hired, forre- WZ.tu, ?ìe ward, to lead thofe fongs, or dire the folemnity of thofe lamen- ávansY4t .9p(tveev p. tations. s: This Expoftion (upon the fuppohtionofalluding to that cufiom Jxofsv eph.láv1ó, de in mourning,and the allowance of thofe fignifications of the word Bel.7ud,c. t 5. Leviathan) bath a clear and a fair fenfe, refpeEiing the feries of the Text ;lob having fo fax potiired out a curfe upon, and lamented his night, he (as it were) calls for thofe to finifb and conclude it, *EVf'ipi}ii who traded in fuch kind ofcuries, and who were skill'd in lamen- n of t l ` rail' tun( ut repo, ration$ cum agitu? t'a There is anObjection againfi this,taken from the Grammatical aflioíúbua cai- - regimen or confiruóion oftheoriginal.The Hebrewword (* who tandi, lugendi are ready) is of theMafculine Gender, and the Pronoun relating '77; Qmanar ten to it, (Leviathan) their mourning, is ofthe Feminine Gender ; fo quàm nomi that here feems tobe a fault in Grammar, ifwe expound it thus, ribur ,,,afuü, their mourning, or theircompany ofmourners. verbafasmütiri To this we may give a double Anfwer. generic jungar- Firfi, that (itch changes of oneGender for another,are frequent- primes,' l tl lyobferved in Scripture by the learned in the Originals. colina naming Secondly, the relative word is conjectured to be put ín the Fe- afficiantur; ut minine Gender, becaufe_women.were mots dually called forth to excellen -ia:l- that work,of mourning. And it is further oblervable , that liaraflranatn. where the g re l .y- Scripture {peaks of thofe actions of mourning os o 8iratur, r..ra rnulieres inhu- cing, or loving, which are worksof affee`fion, it ufeth to afcribe jtirmod; uía them towomen rather then to men,becaufe they are quicker in al- nibouexreltunt. feUion,and fuller ofaffedion then men,andfo more ready to ad or Bolduc.in loc. Ccc2 cxpreFs
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