Chap. 42. ;ef1n Expofition upon the 13oó& of J o a. Verf. t r. 97'g is only in wo:ds, to thofe who are in extream need of more ; and it is only fo, not betaute they have no more in their hands to give, but, becaufe they have no hearts ro .give more. To fay to a naked or hungry one, be clothed rod red, or to give a large parcel of condoling and bemoaning words,and then do nothing,no notgive aDoit,for the fupply of -his warns; is this loveor charity? Jobs friends loved him now, not in word and in tongue only, but indeed and in truth ; their deeds fhewed the truth of their love. They gavehim every one of them At piece of money, There are two readings of this claufe. The word whichwe here render a ,piece of money, liignifies silo a 'keep ; according to Íßc?erupt e: whichMafter Broughton tranflates, and fodo others, 7key gave quifquepecu; . him each onea lamb, we fay, a piece of money ; the fame word deco unoa, fignifying both, as is plain from other Scriptures (Gen. 37, r 9.) Bee. And be (that is, facob) bought a parcel of a fold, where he bad fpread his tent at the band of the children of Hamor, Shechems father, for an hundred pieces of money, or lambs, as we put in the Margin. The tame thing is reported again, in the fame words (loll, 24. 3 z.)Now the rcafon why that word is rendred both a lamb and apiece of money, is, fay Come, becaufe money in thofe timer, bare the Ramp or figure of a lamb upon is as in -fume timesand places money or coin was Ramped with the figure of an oxs ; from whence came that Proverb, The exe is uponhis tongue, that is, he fpeaks as be is bribed. A fecond realen given of ir, is, becaufe the riches of the Antients was moll in cattle ; Pecuu adpi. and that kind of riches being as money, by which all things are ci n1 8 ` 3 ac valued, and by which they made their payments , therefore the Sevet rez fame wordwas ufed for cartel, and for coin ormoney. The La- ow,urn bourn.:, tine word for money is alfo derived from another, which lignifies qua ej3'igiepri. cattle. And it is reported by Pliny, that Severees firfi fiampt vH Pan, na, money with the effigies or image of Cheep and oxen. They gave him every one a piece of money,or a lamb. Some are molt for that reading, they gave him a lamb, becaufe that feems moll anfwerable to the lofs,of fob ;he loll all his cattle, and now every one brought him a lamb : But it is not tmuch to Mtmatter, whether wetake their reading orours. If it were a Hhhhhh z lamb,
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