43% Chap. 39. an Expofition upon the Boek,of J o B. Verf.tg; der this claufe in our language thus, Hall thou learned bim to neigh couragioufly. For ( faith that learned Authour, who oppof- eth this reading ) it is uncom_ly, when a word bath two or more figniucations, to retain that in the tranflation, which is leaf} com- modious to hold out the meaning of the place in hand. And ( faith he ) itis molt certain, that the word thunder, is never ufed in the Latine tongue ; no, not by the boldeft Poets, to fagniñe Arriold.Boot. the neighingof a Horfe. Yet I fee no cogent reafon, feting the 'monad. Baer. Latine words which fgnifie to thunder, are applied to feveral cla- 1,3,e,6fe.3 mourn and noires, much inferior to thunder, why the word thun- T'onare, into der in tke Noune may not be fo applyed ; nor do I fee any reafon dare,1.3.e,rr. why the neighing of a mighty Horfe, being ufually accompanied fed. $ ( when he is in a rage) with fretting, chafing, and fnorting, may not be allufively called thunder or thundering. I am lure, the fretting and chafing of a woman is fo expreffed by the Verb in the Holy Scripture ( Sam. i. 6.) where it is Paidof Hannah, Her adverfary provcked her fore to make ber fret ; the Hebrew tomake her thunder. Now the fretting of a woman, though heightned to loud brawling, and (if I may ufe fo courfea word ) fcolding, bears not fo touch proportion to the noireof thunder, as the neighing, fnorting, and fretting of a great and generous Horfe. When a Horfe is enraged, we may fay, fparks leapout of his eyes like lightninand a found out of his mouth like thunder, aad a breath out of his noflrils like fmoke. And that the fnorting and neighing of Hordes is dreadful, even like thun- der, appears fully by that of the Prophet (Per. 8. 16. ) The porting of hirHorfes was heardfromDan (that is,from the =oft boundsof the Country ) the wholeLand trembled at the found of she neighing of his/irons one,.The neighing of Hordes,is a figs of theircourageand boldnefs, of their fearlefnefs and generofity; which probably was the reafon why the great Lords of Per(sa agreed, that meeting all together in one place on Horfe-back, he fhould be chofen Emperor whole Horfe neighed, firfl after they were met ; they fuppofing it a good Omen or Sign, that the Ri- der would prove a perlon of great courage and fpirir, whole Horfe firft gave that token of it ; Uponwhat occafion the Horfe of Darius neighed firff, and fogot his Mager the Empire, the Perfian hifiorieswill inform the Reader. But to the point in hand. 'Tis evident from what bath been
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