Chap. 3 2. An Expoftion upon the Boob, of J o Verf. a. t The Buzite, that is, coming ftom Buz. Yet there is a difference about that, tome fay he had that none froin the place where he dwelt ;we read (3er. z 5. 23. ) of a place called Buz; Others fly, he was called the B,tzate fro::l the name of his family ; As he defcended f:o::: Buz, the on oi`Nabor Abrahan2,r b ether (Gel'. 22. 21. ) w1.',cah bath borne children unto thy brother Nahor, .Ilstzhisjtrf grin andBuz his brother. Mailer Broughton is cleare in i-, who gives this gloife upon the text ; Rliihu the Buzite, of Buz Abrahams brothersfon of th'efamily. of Ram, famous then fos knowledge. Rebecca and 'Jacob.feeme to have left religionin Nabors houfe. Thus faire he. 7ereme faith, El hu war defcended from the Hicron: in fecondfon ofMIIcah, whom the Septuagint call Bauz; from .himwas tra£ì: Heb: fu- , Balaam the forcerer, who accord: g to the 7raditio 2 of the jewes Po' Ge:ej/in. was this Elihtefpo]Zen ofin the bookofjob, atfirfl, an holyman and a Prophet, but afterwards an apoffate. But I leave that as a Rabbi- Apparel', quod nicallTradition. fran Eliu di- We have yet a further defcriptiori of Elrihu in the Text. crur BuLiris n pt ine Ofthe kindred ofRam, of the family or pofteriry of Kam: ¡uia trawl' exmaw Who this Ram was is much conrroverted by Interpreters . its dicitur de nor is the controverfie yet endedwho this Ram was. Some fay he P`am ra i0'a } y maternz o'r;gi- was that Rem fpoken of (Ruth4.19.) But it is not likely, that he pis. metcba c- was fo ancient as fob; or if he were, he would not leave the If- tam mater Bug raelites ( from whom Pharez was defcended) to dwell among fait Aran the Edornites. Others fay he was that Arammentioned (Gen. 2, z undoet 70 loco 21. ) But neither Both this appeare true ; for then Elihu could tegmu A- pp ram.Proindéfi- not be a Buzite, but mull draw his line from Kemal the brother cut tres reges of Buz. The Chaldee Paraphrafe tells us, he was Abraham. And vifira-erunt to cleare this 'tis laid ( as our owne learned Annotators have gi- lob caufa ami- ven it ) that he had a threefoldgradation inhis, name ; Fads, he c`a`ufacog,: do was called only Ram, which fignifieth high; Secondly, Abram, nis,dequaven- which fgnifieth Ahigh father; Thirdly, Abraham, which fgni- dieavirfibi in ñeth the high father of a multitude, But , upon which. rodeter- lob plufculum mine Iconceive it impofíible, nor is there any great matter in it, ntdacìoríe li- Only this feemes cleare, that the family of Ramwas force great fn,;,'æ. Ian and illuff:ious family in thofe times; and we may take noticehow uis ifie fue- diflinl and pundl uall the penman of this bookwas in defcribing rir, quærunr in- the pedegree ofEli -And there may be two reafons why, the recpreres, Gr.i- Spirit ofGoddired§ed him to be fo; Firff., becaufe he was but a mane: rerranrá C? adbuc tub young judi;a lis efi. Dref
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