330 Chap. 33. ßín E.xpofrion upon the Bookof, Joss. Vet From periThin by thefword. "file fword is put fometime for warre, that being the principal inlirunient of warre ; fome infili much on that fencehere,as if the words contained a promise ofbeingkept from perishingby the fword ofan open enemy. But the fword is here rather put for any Plomzn glad,f kind orfor all kindsof hurtful! evills ; what ever doth atflia,ve,, hoc to loco go- or deffroy may be called thefword. The text firiefly in the letter neralirèr dew. is thus rendred, and his lifefrompang by or through the fword, tare putt, qui, rte fay, fromper!fling by thefword ; which palling by the fword is gold pundit, not to efcape the fword,but to fall.by the fword, Thus ris laid of percut;t,rorquet that idolatrous King.efhez (2 Kings t 6. 3. He caufed his foss uciar veil e, to a e through the re themeaning is not that he delivered them jìgir. Bold, out ofthe firc,but confumed them in the fire ; for he made them paffe through the fire toMolech, which wasa facriticing ofthem to that abominable idoli. It is alfo faid (a Sam. r 2. 31.) when David took Rabba and deflroyed the .Ammonites, he made them pale through the brick-kiln, not to fave them, but to confume them. Some conceive that this brick-kilne through which David made thole captive Ammonites topallewas the fire or furnace of Molrch,that infamous Idoll of the Ammonites(withwhole bloody and moll cruel! devotions the apoftatizing Jewes or people of God,were in after times enfnared) And if fo, then they might fee God turning their fin into their punithmene; and declaring his fiery wrath againll them in that, by which they had declared their foolish and abominablezeale. But that which Iquote their punifhment for, is only the forme of its expreflion ; He made Tea reingla-, them paft throu hthe bris hilne that is,perith in it. Thus here diem a idem : p .f $ ; r , good inetdeve andhiefoulfrom . pang by the [word, is rightly tranflated from etae- pezifhix by thefword. The word rendred fword lignifies all() any hoftium, et miflive weapon, or weapon cart with the hand,efpecially adart; cadere bell. fo Mr. Broughton tranflates, and his life from gores on the dart, Gladdcru ? Thegenerallfence of this verfe is plainly this'; s retrrar. The Lord" wirhdraweth manfrom him: perpofe, andhidespride itruGt fromman, thatfo he may in mercy preferve him fromperiThingg both in body cadfou4,or that.he.may keephimnor onlyfrom thefarfi, but from thefecond death, which it thefeparationofthe whole man front theblef f'ed.profinceofGodfor ever.. 'Tis a great favour tobe kept from the pit where the body corrupts, or from the fword that wounds
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