chap.q.r. r/jn Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Verf.23.. have the greateft occafion and matter of forrow in them, or as Elipbax, faìal (job y. za.)4e deflruttion and famineyefhall laugh, ye (hall laughat defituecion it felf ; fo at laft all the verymatter of your forrow (ball be turned into joy. The molt forrowful things (hall not now be able to fwallow you up with forrow, and at lilt you (hall not know by any then prefent experience any for- rowful thing. All your tears (hall be, not only wiped off from, but out of your eyes; Chrifi will then renew that miracle, in a metaphorical fence, which he once wrought in a natural, of which we read (John 2.) he will turn water into wine ; the waters of for- row and tribulation, into the wine of joy and confolation. Which bleffed priviledge is alfo clearly prophefied (Ifa.65r 3,14) Latily, If by reafon of Leviathans llrength, his forrow is turn- ed into joy , cutely the faithful, who have the Lord for their ftrength, may turn their forrow into joy, into Inch joys, as none. (hall take from them, or turn back, or again into forrows. Thus far concerning the (hrength of Leviathans neck, and the effe of it, his joyful or merry life. The next words fhe,v him firong all over, or in all the parts of his body. Verf. 23. The flakes of bis f efh are joyned together, they are firm in themfelves, they cannot be moved. This compatanefs of Leviathans flefh argues an univerfal firength. His flefh is fo cornpaet, as if it were amolten thing, or (as the word rendred fi-so in the latter part of the verfe figni- fies) like brafs, or bell-mettal moulton in a furnace, and call into a body. Such is the force of the Hebreiv. The flakes of his flefh are joyned. - Though Leviathan be a filh, an inhabitant of the waters, yet the Scripture calls the bulk of his body fief h. So (Levit. a a, a o, a. a.) , All that have not pis, nor fcales in the feas, and in the ri- vers, of all that move in the waters, they /ball; be even an abomi- nation unto you, ye (hall not eat of their flap. In Scripture fence filh is flefh, the Apofile ufeth the fame language (t Cor. 15. 39,) All flefh is not the fame flefb (That is, is is not of the fame kind) but there is one kind of flefh of men,, and another flefh of beafis,another of fifhei. The fills of the tea have'ile(h, as well as the bealts of the earth ; And that which ,fob denied of his Nth 749 9t
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