Chap. 36. 4/InExpofition upon the Book of o s, Verf, r 5. 277 Note ; They whoare not deliveredfrom elation, mayyet be delver eei in of lii ion. God doth not alwayes deliver his People frorroafflitlion (either not fuf feting affli6lion to fall upon them, or prefently bringing them out of affíielion) but he is engaged (bypromife) todeliver them in of iEtion ; and this he doth fometimes by checking the affliai- on,`that it (hall not hurt them ; fometimes by enabling them to bear,yea, to conquer the affliCtion, how much foever it hurts them. He delivered choie in the third of Daniel, in the fiery fur- nace, by checking the fire that it fhould not hurt them ; and Da- niel in the Lions den, bychecking the hungry Lyons that theydid not devour him. He deliveredPG, and David, and feretnie, and the Apoffles, and all the Martyrs, who loved not their lives to the death for the teftimonyof Jells, by caufingthem to glory in, and triumph over all their tribulations. He delivereth thepoor in hie of iíTion, and openeth their ears in opprefon. What'smeant by opening theear,was (hewed at the Toth ver fie of thisChapter, and at the r 6ch verfe of the thirty third; Yec confider fomewhat in the words anew. And openeth (heir ear. The Hebrew copulative particle, which we render, and, is often in that language ufed to denote a feafon, or fpecial time, and then it is rendred by when ; thus here he delivererh thepoor in áfflieiion, when hebath opened their ears, by or inopprefon. Thusalto (Pfal. 139. 16,) Thine eyes did fee my fubffance,yet being imperfeE, and in thy book, all my members were written, which in continuance were fathomed, when as yet there was none of them. The Hebrew is, and not one in them; as if he had faid, God had a full Idea or platform of Davidsbody before it was framed ; fo here, hedelivereth the poor in a f ietion, and open- eth, or whenhe bath opened their ears in oppreffion ; that is, taught them effeEually to make a good ufe of their afl3i6-lions. We may alto render ir,a ter ; fo thecopulative (Vast) is expounded Lev. f ( Facie( CUM in- a 7. , 5, Jer, t o. r 3.) Thus here ; He delivereth thepoor in nip- telligere plod on after he bath opened their ears ; that is, after he hach made propea-stir them underptand that fin hath caufed their fufferings, and bath al- pttt,=tur. pain fo
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