Chap, qo. Expoflion open the BookofJo e. Verf, t 3., 727 every creature, and upon man, garments of beauty and glory. Who can difeover theface of his garment ? Or who can come tobim with his doable bridle r There is much contending about the meaning of thefe words, or what is meant by this double bridle ; but I flail not make any flay about it. The text may be read thus : Who can come within his doable bridle. The Geneva tranflation is near ours ; Who cancome to him with a doublebridle? But what is this double bridle ? Firfl,Some undethand this double bridle as a part of Leviathan. tnrelligit os Who can come to bis double bridle ? or into thedoubling of his bi- ant labia, qae die ?' As theverdure or greennefs of grafs is put for green g. afs, didri£ia jrænt fo (fay force the duplicature or doubling of his bridle, is nothing duplicaci ¡pe- Y p a ciembabent, elfe but his double bridle , that is, his jaws or mouth, which have Druf. force refemblance to a bridle when they are opened, or at their end. Now according to this reading, the meaning is, who dares come within his lips or jaws, which look like a double bridle 1 Surely no man dares make fuch anadventure, feting his jaws are fovafl, or wide, and terrible,that it may even firike a man of cou- rage with terror, or into a fit of tretíibling to look into them. Secondly, Others (becaufe the jaws are fpoken of afterwards) underhand this double bridle, of any thing which man may at- tempt toput into his jaws to fubdue him with ; as if it had been laid, who can coerce or bridle him, though he have never fo flrong abridle, though he have a double bridle ? The word ren- dred bridle, properly lignifies the reine of a bridle. There are two wordsby which a bridle is expreffed, the one fignifying the bit? Frdnanorm- nantur eæpar . which is put into the mouth of a horfe,the other the Headflail and tes que wring; reins, which a horfeman holdeth in his hands. Here we may ad maxillas take it for the whole bridle, and that the flrongefl bridle, as we defnunt. render, a doublebridle : As if it had beenPaid, who dares come his cum fre- neer Leviathan, as wecommonly do to a horfe, toput a bridle in- ano udeat up1 c: tohis mouth ? who will undertake to halter or bridle him, with ,readeWm,ut all his skill and flrength? Thus the Relative His doth not refpeucl ejusrilui in- Leviathan, but the mate who, comes to bridle him : And this is ferar, Aloft moll probable, becaufe, if by the double bridle we underhand the eq" Sedma- jaws of Leviathan, this would be the fame with what is f ollen evepr P snteDigerepro plainly in the next words, lobiis. Mao Verf.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=