az Chap.4o. n Expofition upon the Book ofJ o s. Verf. IS, The finewsof his filones are wrap together. iii quo: medici çrema. (feras tecarr d refiibcos ad pensnadodu. tenter remis arborun con- fermatus. Or (as Mr. Broughton) platted inandout as branches. As if it had been Paid, in the heat of his luft he ereketh or moveth his generative part like a firong Cedar-tree, being corroborated from natures conduit pipes, the finews of his hones, which are complicated or wrapt together, like the roots of a great grown tree in the earth, or like its branchesin the air. Verf. a S. His bones areas firong pieces of brafs. Bones are the flrength and (lability of the body, and they keep the body (trait. Bones are to the body as polls to a houle, the (layesand lupporters of it. Bones alto are as anarmour or cork- let on the body,to defend and preferve the morenoble parts, the heart liver and lungs, from danger and annoyance ; and therefore it was neceffary the Lord ffould fpeak of Behemoths bones,when he fpake of hisflrength. His bones areasfirong piecesof brafs. As bars of fleet, faith Mr. Broughton, or as conduit pipes of brafs; fo the words may be read, and then they refer to thole bones that are hollow. Some conceive, his bones are laid to be as (hang pieces of brafs , becaufe the Elephant cannot kw (that's an old opinion) as if he were all bone, and had no joints; Dr.wow of which opinion is at large confuted by a learnedPhyfician, in his vulgar errors book of vulgar Errors, who proves, and experience teacheth, lib. 3. e. s. that the Elephant hath Joynts with his bones,as other living crea- t ures have, though not fo apparent. His bones being great and (bong, he mull needs be very firong. It is laid (gen. 49. 14. ) finus®, ur, lffachar is a firongafe : The Hebrew is, lffachar is a bonyaft ; robulloek which we well render a fireng affe, able to bear great burthens, ftrengrh lying fomuch itlthe bones. And to fhew that the bones ofthe Elephant are more than ordinarily firong, they are compe- ted to braffe. Yob faith, in his complaintat the fixthChapter, Is my; fled brafs ? Am I prong like brafs ? The bones of the Ele- are fo, and not only fo, but His bones are like bars of iron, Theword here rcndredbones, is not the fameas in the former pare
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