chap. 42. fln Expolitìon upon the Book,pf Jos. Verf. i r. 965 and it was well, and but their duty that theycarne to him. Yet this was not all they did ; jobs friends did not only corne and eat bread with him(thar had beenbut according to the cullorn of common friends) they went further, They bemoanedhim.That's the fecond friendly.afice which they did him, The word fgnifîes,to fhake the heotd;fo the Latine Tran- flation renders it, His friends came to him, andmoved their heads Zi7averunt fun over him, fo expreffing their compaflîon. That geflure of moving the head, was ufed fomtimes in derifion, fomtimes in admiration, vulg. in which latter fence the Septuagint take it here, They comfortedConfolarifume him, and wondered at ail the calls that Godhad brought uponhim. curt et mire:, It might well move wander, that fogood a man thould fuller fo Jimfoyer on:- evil ; yet this geflure of flaking the head, is rarely, if at nihw' &c' all ufed in way of admiration ; whereas, in way of co npaffion, effpropri nothing is more ufual,and it complyerh fully with our tranflation, migrare, unde they bemoanedhim. An they feafled with him, fo they bemoaned pro condolere him, and condoledhis former fad gate ; and to do fo is a proper finnitur;,quod aal of fincere love and friend(flip. qur aliquena ¡olari %olumt Hence Note ; ( ejurviceon It is ear duty to pity and bemoan-the offlïtled. dolere,è loco jut) ut idfart. We read of Ephraim bemoaning him(cl f (Jer. 3 I . i 8.) and ant foleant ms', there is a twofold bemoaning of our feives. Firíl, With refpe& Bram to the fins that we have committed. Secondly, There is a be- . moaning of our felves, as to our afllìalions ; and poffibly both are to be underflood in that place concerning Ephraim. Cis a duty alfo with refpe& to others ; we ought to bemoan thole that-are in fufferings, and chofe that have finned, as well as our own fins or fufferings. And though, that which gives us the greatefloccafi- on of bemoaning others is their fin, yet 'cisa great duty alfo to. bemoan chofe that are under fufferings, and to have bowels of compaffion, or a fellow feeling of their aflfii&ìoris. But it may be objealed,,, what need had lobs brethren to be- moan him now that he wardelivered out of his affíi &ions, and, bis captivity turned ? were not thefe bemoaning§ improper and unfealonable ? I anfwer, Firfl, Though 7o6 was come out of his afl3itlions, yet he wasbut very lately come out of them ; he was yet, as it were,,upon the borders offorrow, and pral come only a flepout of
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