416 'Veríi5. An Expòfition upon the Boo ; of J B. Chap.3. lver. T he root from which it fprings fignifieth to defire, and the reafon is,becaUre. treafure,filver or gold,are fach defireable things, or things upon which the defiles of molt men are let : therefore the _Hebrews give (liver a name proper to its own nature, or-rather to,the nature ofmen, whole delires -are enflamed after it. With this defireable thing, Princes fill their houfes. What, are tüefe-houfes ? A houfe is a places whereinman liveth, or iíahatbiteth while he liveth; this is the ordinary accéptionof the word; and lo it may be taken here,forthe ordinary dwelling houfes or PalacesofPrinces; and then it is an heightning ofthe fence, They, hadgold,yea,they. -had lb much; as they filled their houfes with it. Then again, (That we may keep in this claufe to the Expo(ì- on given in theTaft, of the deflate places,) we may underhand by the houfes that there Princes filled with treafure, the Graves, the Tombes wherein they wereburied; and it is the language of Scripture, to call the grave a houfe,mans houfe.Two Texts I will .give you for°it,one out ofthis Book, Job 30, 33.wherejob fpeak- ing of the grave, calleth it the houfe appointed for all living ; And ,Ecclefa2. 5. where Solomon calls it our long -home, Man dyeth, 'D'ylrAm, andgoeth_to his longhome; the werd in the Original is, he go- -4d dom rJ fe` eth to the houfe of his a.ge, or to the houfe of age. God is called the Rocl¿,ofager,becaufe he is au everlaflingfirength,Ifa. 26,4. The grave is called au hour;: ofage, becaure it is a very la(ting houle, an abiding houfe, a houle where man muff abidetill God Mound him up by the voice ofa Trumpet to the _refurre6ion ; fo then, the grave is iikewife called an houfe, the houfe ofall living, becaufe thither every one that is living is travelling, man travels to the grave as to his houle ; and a long-home, in oppotition to ourfhort borne, our uncertain abode-in thole houles wherein we dwell upon the earth. .Princes (faith job )that hadgold, and thisis one Life theymake ofit, theyfill their haufes,that is, ti eir graves or their Tombs with this treafure. In thole times (it Teems) they didnot only btftow- great colt upon their Tombes and places of burial, but they put great fiore of treafure into the Tombs with them, According to this interpretation,themeaning of7ob may be thus reprefïnted, Ir'IhId dyed before, and had been buried poorly and obfcúrely, jet IJhould have dome as well as Kings and Couufebors, who with n:ja exfen c e (f treafttre build flately Tombs for thenífelves , j''e
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