740 ' Chap: 4t, an Expoftion upon the Boob of J o B. Verf> a8, 13J!ttnc ex nee ing, (pouts out water, at thofe pipes or holes which he bath in"v ab placed or made naturally upon his head or forehead (he Lath a mittendo K7 fundenda a mouth (as it were) on the top of hishead, not to eat with, but to pat. lid. I-pout out water with) as v, hen a man neeïeth, there comes out a Ora Balenor vapour at his no&rils; fo the Whale is fuppofed tomere, when habeut to he blows out (bowers of water through thole pipes, up into the fu.,, á'ude0q' Air. The word by which the Whale is expreffed in Latine, fib atantesin nìres this a&ion,or,his (poutingout water; and by there fpoutings fublime nimbos or neefings, we may fay (as it followeth in the Text) diam,Plin. tlatur,Hiill. 4 light dotb Mine. Becaufe the water which he fpouts up into the Air with a great Srernutariones p p , ejes faciunt andvehement force, meeting, and as it were, mingling with the ,fpfendorsm, light there, looks like light, and bath a great brightnefs in it; fo dum aqua al- that this anion of Leviathan, and the effea or concomitant of it, l'efcens in aere isas applicable to the Whale as to the Crocodile. difpergitur, Pik. and hie eyes are like the eye-lids of the morning, or, like the Aqua. qua ula per dawningof the day, quern longi,ßi- So we tranflate there words (lob 3. 9.) Let it not (that is let And furfum cis- not the night in which I was conceived) fee the dawning of the Ba- ku; r, day or (as the Margin bath it) the eye-lids o the morning. Levia- resa,.cuntura- tha os eyes be like the e lids of f morning, becaufe ras dicuntur, Y y g quia¡usant 6. of the lightfomenefs of them. Chrill ' -aith ((Mat. 6. 22.) The candident, light of the body is the eye. We may call it fo in a double re(pe&, Sant#. Fitt}, becaufe the eye is the molt lightfom part of the body, or bath moli light in ir. lecondly, becaufe the eye gives or lets in light to the whole body. They that want eyes, or their eye- fight, dwell in darknefs. The eyes of Leviathan are not only ralpebra pro light in themfelves, but are like the eye-lids (that is, eyes) of the ttu1i,fuman morning. But wherein doth this likenefs conffl ? I anlwer, in two things, Firfi, His eyes are very great, in proportion to his head and body. Secondly, His eyes are very clear. And fo Leviathans eyes may be laid ro be like the eye-lidsof the morning ; Fitti, in their greatnefs; Secondly, in their brightnefs orclearnefs, It isufual in Scriprure to t iention the morning light, when it would exprefs thecl :erei light. The Prophet (Ifa, 58.8) during the Jews of the
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