Chap.4r. e/In Expo /7tion upon the Book of ) o B. Vert, 6. 675 Shalt the companions make a barquet of him ? That is, either, Fir(t, Shall they eat him, (hall he be the mat- ter of the banquer, the chief difh at the feaft ? Or, Secondly, Shall they rejoyce and make merry, becaufe they have catcht Le- viathan, and gotten filch a prize. Underftanding the words in this latter fenfe, Leviathan being caught, is the occafion, not the matter of the banquet. As if it hadbeen faid, Fi/her -men, or their focieties, /hall never have caufe to rejoyce and triumph at the captivity of Leviathan, nor fay they, have gotten him :nto their bands or cufody, to lade their veffels,.and fill their waro.houfes , to vend himont again, and fill their purfes, as it followeth in this verfe. Shall they part him among the Merchant; The word ,rendred Merchants, is according to the Hebrew Gananæorura Canaanites. Merchants were focalled, becaufe there was much nomen inScri- Merchandife ufed by and among the Canaanites, their country ly- ArumPoem ing near the Sea. Shall thy companions make abanquet' of him?&c. pro lYlercatori= , bz merpatur Hence note, Firfi.; quad ea gens That which to got bybard and perilous labour, makes the la- negotiationì dry snercimoniw bowers merry when they have got it. eddiáIa, fuerit, The Text feemslo fay ;If they could but *get Leviathan into °bmariovici their hands, what feailirg would there be, or there would be niarmMexs= great feafling ! He that by diligent fearch finds that bleil'ed trea- lure in the field, of which C,hrift fpake in the Parable (Mat. 13. 44..) he (I fay)for joy ofit, fells all that he bath and buyeth that field. And as they, 4trhohave lourd Chrifi, that treafure, have caufe to rejoyce with great joy : So when any good is found, or gained by hard labour, 'cis matter of joy. But is banqueting and feafling ail that Fifher-men aime at, when they labour and venture fo hard tocatch Leviathan ? Purely no, they aime at profit more thin at pleafure, it is to fell of_ what they get to the Merchants. Hence note ; ?refit puts menupon hard and perilem labours. What almoft will not men do ?whither will theynot venture for a
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