430 Chap. 39. e 4n Pxpofition upon the Book, of j o 8. Verf. 19. their necks, as the old Poets often defcribe noble and warlike Horfes. .And that in this place of 7obá not an ordinary chin or fiuo:t mane, but a thick and a deep one is intended,:we maycol- le.& from the word claathed,which\vill not well agree with thofe V-1. of ordinary.Hor.fes. The only difficulty with which this inter- awas Aeyo- tuetov.hmol. pretacion is attended, is how to make it out that the Hebrewword Bootius. Ani- (Ragnemah) lignifies the mane of a Horfe, it being neverufed mad. Sacre. in any place of Scripture but this ; and it is much quflioned, 13 C. 6, fa. whither the word be to be found in the writings of any of the â ®' Jewift Rabtins in that ienfe. The only anfwer is, that it is to be reckoned among thofe words ( of which there are feveral in Scripture) which are only once read or ufed ; and fo the fenfe of them is to be given from the fcope of the place where they are Wed, not :from their ufage in ocher places, theynot being fed in anyplace but one. This is a fair 'inrerpretaeion,"thatbe- ing. granted, that the word Ragnemah'hathno communion with the word Ragnatre, which. properly-Egniñes Thunder. Bur, almoft all other interpreters agree, that Rsgnemah is the fame with Ragnaus ; and take the Hebrew letter 11 in the end of it, to beonly Paragogical, and fo not making anyalteration at all in the fenfe. Now this being the molt received opinion, and our tranflarors pitching exprefsly upon ir,faying,Haft thou cloethedhis neck with thunder.? It is queflroned what is here meant by the word thun- der. No man can imagine that it fhouldbe underfloód of pro- per thunder ; and in what the metaphor is couched, or whence to take the allul on, that's thedoubts i» ffrepita Firfl, I fhall not flay upon that weak conje6ure, that by roonilsun thunder we are to underfland the found , noire or rat- Munláerus. lino , which is made by the armour, ornaments or trappings; tnfiruflosoflro which are fometimes put upon the necks and breafis of war- iisedes prÑif- horfes, when theygo our tobattle. We read that the Camelsof s rapetJe Zebaand Zalmunna, conquered by vi6lorious 7.ofhua, had orna tea peTori means upon their necks (fudg. 8. zr. ) But Curdy, the word than- dente der fines not with fuch founds ; Thunder mull needs relate to monilia pen- 9 oient,Virg,l.g, fomewbat that is terrible, not ornamental ; and all the found which the rattling of a Horfesarmes or ornaments can make', is much too low for anyrefembiance of thunder,or tobe compared with it; nor will the general fcope of the queflion comply with any filch interpretation. For when (.;od raùh, to ;oh, Haft thou clout hed
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