0hap.39. an Expofition upon the Boole of Jots. Vert. z4. 453s Noune is derived, which in that language fignifies a hole or pit. And if we take this interpretation ( faith he ) the words would not be a bare, much lefs a needlefs -repetition of what was faid (ver, 2t.) He paweth in the valley. For though ( according to this reading) the Text in both places fpeaks of hollowing the earth,yet we may give this difference;the former being to be un- derfìood of thofe lighter touches, which wanton lufiy horfes with one foot give the earth ; but this latter, of great and deep im prerfronswhich they make in the earth with all their feet, while heated with a defire to charge the enemy, they are reftrained and held in, till the fignal be given. Secondly, Others laying a fide the metaphorical fenfe of the word fwalloweth,expound it properly of his biting or gnawing the earth. A generous home, to thew how he would eat up the ene- ròrfu cerrar,s my when he comes at him, before he comes at him, Both not abforberervi= only paw in the earth with his foot, but gnaws the earth with his deter. teeth, as if he would (wallow it up. And to fwallow up a thins imports in all languages, at leafl. a fuppofed or conceited eafinefs of doing ir. We, fpeaking proverbially, tile to fay, we could do fuch or loch a thing, as eafily as we can cat or drink. The horfe when he cannot come prefently to wreck his rage upon the enemy, doth it upon the earth ; in gnawing of which he feems to tell his enemies, that he will tear their fictll, and gnaw their bones as foon as he can come at them. And I find one, who by earth in this place, underfuands men (as all are )madeof earth ; but though it may bear a tolerable fenfe, to fay, that a ho-fe in his fiercenefs and rage, would even eat or fwallow up the enemy yet to expound the earth by the enemy, exceeds (faith a learned Author) all abfurdity. Bur, Thirdly, I rather conceive(as Tome of the Rabbixr, and not a few of our Modern Writers do) that by frrallowing the earth with fiercenefs and rage, we are to underfiand only the ftiwiftnefs of hiscourfe or motien,when once he hath but the reins let hole to the battle,he will run as if he would fveallow the ground, and that (hews his courage too. We fayof a man that runs with (peed, Abforbere ter he doth not feel the ground: The horfe is in loch exrream haft to be rom dic,ury gone, and to be at the battle, that he ruos,as if he neither felt nor phYafr Hebrea left any earth under him.This interpretation is flronglycontended arrerrE1d> for, by learned ilerhartut, in oppofition to the former, and illu - firate d
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