Chap, 3 8. An Ezportion upon the Bookof J o B. Verf. i 8 t y.7 be trot. Is it not enough for us, that in the glafs of the Gcfpel, God bath fet before us , the myReties of eternal falvation , un- lefs he alto acquaint us in the day of our. trial (which was fobs cafe) with all the whole mytiery of his temporal difpenfa-- tions ? The Lord having urged Job with thefe hard queflions about the depth of theSea and the gates of death , feems now to offer him a more eafie queftion in the next verle. Verf. IS. I14 thou perceived the breadth of the earth ? Declare ifthou knower it ail. 7;15 izr V a vëoe. Sept. TheSeptuagint render,- Haft thou perceived the breadth ofthat Sic terameile which is under the heavens ? Under the Cope or Canopy of the rater c,r;natm heavens. Haft thou perceived how broad that is which is fpan- qufrquid iú6 ned or compaffed about by the heavens ; that is , as we tran- twit aereo, ter- Rate , the breadth of the earth. That which is circled or fur - á' ear ter- roundedby the aereal heavens is the earth r Hail thouperceived rani the breadthof that. Though the earth be better known tomin than thedepth of the fea ; yet no man ever law the whole earth. Many parts of the earth are deferts and unpaffable byman. The bell Writers fay the whole compafsof the earth is 21600 miles ; yet that israther a fuppoftion,than ademonfiration ; no manha- wing ever vifited or viewed the whole face of the earth. Wend (Job t r .9.) length afcribed to the earth,and bread, h to the fea; But in thisplace the Lord having afcribed depth to the fea gives breadth to the earth. We are not here to take the breadth ofthe earth, according to the rules of Geography ; for fo the.lengthof the earth is from Eafl to Well, and the breadth- fromNorth to "Terre latitudo South ; but breadth is here put finecdochically for all the di- h"i" railer t mentions, or the whole circumference of the Earth. As if r,ramótNZ, the Lord had laid , Doff thou knew how big-, how "fpocious the Earth is ?. The breadth of the Earth -_ imports the largenefs Plurals of it , oppoied to Fraitnefs or narrownefs; and to thew that a lat here the breadth contains all dimenfions, the word is in the tuda Plural Number , 114 thou known. the "breadthsof the Earth, in 9 dimenfó that is , the whole compafs of it , how broad and how long , vrtztur lonsr and fo how big the Earth is ? ¡14 thou perceived the breadth o f ludo, rn'nor la, A ui^ the, Earth? titudó, 9 Hence
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