Chap. 3. An Expofition upon the Boelof J O$ érf. rg. 413 dead-: which grew to filch exceffive charge among' the Koinans, N;iïr,e ptiilfrr that they were forced to make a Law to reftrain it. The Egypti- J:gir intcrpre- ans bellowed more care and colt in building their Tombs then reJ gua copire their houfes. Even Abraham (Gen. 23. r6. bbou ht him a bu- 1`ceutfrr, Lit 3 g lxus rerro- rying place-before he built himfelf a horde, though while he yore" ageorum lived, he dwelt in a moveable Tent,yet he would beas Cure as he rnarúum 7irre, could of a certain grave, And good fofeph of-Arimathea had made (rnetltgunt tom. himfelf a Sepulchre in a rock, plat. 27. 6o. And it is laid of Ab- prrm,,ep chrarirum rnuuJ- rt falom, 2 Sam. 18. 18. That in his life time he had taken and feentiar , rearedup apillar, (that is, he had artificially railed a great pile of es tnur:iendam goodly floues ) in the Kings dale; for he /Àid I have no Son to Cicero. keep my name in remembrance ; and he called the pillar after his'JOtai own name. Now as this pillar was to keep his name lb he intend- res e p p t l'P J jutchrorurr cd it likewife to keep hisbody when he fh.ould d e t for it being guar: C101770117711 related in the.verle before,how as Coon as he was thin, they made (ura. no more ado, with him, but caJt him intoa great pit- in the. Wood, and laida verygreat heap of Jones upon him ; the Holy Gho(t. to thew us the vanity ofman inpreparing for .a dead body, while hnegleas an immortal Soul, and howGod diCappoints the vain, conceits of men in fuppofìng to perpetuate their own name and, - greátnefs ; the Holy Ghoft (I lay) to (hew this,, pre fently fubjoyxn in.the facred liory, Now Abfalom in hit l fe' time, &c. As if he had laid, Do yeobferve how this ambitious Prince was buried-, even tumbled into a pit with a rude heap of flones call upon him. This man had prepared himflfanother kind of Monument, even a fumptuous'pillar,&c.So that under or by thatpillar,lre had arch a curious .vault for himfelf to be buried in, called Abföloms plate, ne.At pori namely his burying, place. vorr,r,.r And the word which we have here for defolate places, is ir3-x,,v01,4,7,v, Scripture dearly applyed to the grave, or a place of burial. we Jun.;n loc. have it in Ezek. 26. 20.. where the Prophet fbreíhewing the de- - fcrudion of Tyre, fpeaks frorrt the Lord thus, When I(hall bring , thee down with them that defend into-the pit, and 'hall Jet thee in the lowparts" ofthe Earth, in places defblate of old. There are three Words in that verle, and they are all Synoxima's, wcrds ors the fame tìgnification ; Fiat, ehepit.. Secondly, the lowparts of the Earth. Thirdly, -The defolateplacess and all thefe arc bub., feveral expreflìons for the grave, or for a place to bury in ; it is no more but this, When Ifhall bring thee down, even with thrjë that lye bburiedin the grave. So that the word which we traullate., defòlate
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