Chap. 5. 4n Expofitien upen the Book of., O B. Ver(:..r'r9. 339 isa compleate full number,the fame Hebrewword lignifiesfeven, andfull,fevenand fatisfiedor compleate. And the word to ¡wear, ymiu sepregs is of the fame extraaion in that language with the word feven vat!) sarura- the reafonisadded,becaufe in orabout anoath,many and impor- ter, impletui, tant caufes andgrounds are required. abundwit But topats from finglenumbers, I (hall confider them in Con- vz L rs. ft.ruc`dion or conjunction, as here fix and leven. He all deliver vice cede j, ramcttzam; a thee infix troubles, yea in feven there ¡hall no evil touch thee : Seprenarro nu Some underfiand this firifl.y andprecifely of thofe two numbers mew ur q+uidsrs fix and feven;And expound the text by the enumerationofthofe pane, g "od fix or feven particular evils made by Eliphaz in the following in dcbeani verles ; For having fail in general, that God will deliver his in 'mho adhibi fix troubles and in feven,he reckoneth up feveral troubles, and tods mom:, gives us (as it were) a catalogue, or a particular of thole evils rRulrumq, can° by name, amounting to fixor feven ; As t. Famine, 2. Warre,fóuv relii aa. Scourge of the tongue. 4. Deftruion. 5. Evil beafts, 6. bw`COUb'° Hurtful flones; here are fix, and ifa feventh evil come upon thee, infeven no evilfhall touch thee. But I rather take this exprcf nn,fix,yea infeaven,to be a fixed number put for an unfixed, a certaine number for an uncertaine, and that uncertaine number to be a great number, the greatett number, any number imaginable. We find this kind of fpeaking frequently in Scripture,In the thirty third ofthis bookeofyob v. 29. Loe thefe things God works twice and thrice ; which we tranflate, theft. things God worker often-times : when numbers are doubledwith an increafe in the latter, it notes a mighty growth of the whole number. Twice and twice ( weknow) is but four times ; but, twice and thrice, may bemore thenfi ve times, twice and thrice, is oftentimes, no man knower bow of- ten. We find the number next above thisin the fame fignification ; Three, andfoure, are put för many, very many ; ( Amos I. 3 ) For three tranfgreffions; of Dam4fctas, and for foure : Some un- dertland it of three or foure fpecial fins,of which Dam .fcus was chiefly, guilty : namely, r .Idolatry, 2. Incefi, 3. Luxurie 4. Oppretíion r Or, Threemay be taken for a Cardinal number,' and Foure foran Ordinal, for the Fourth, as if Tome fourth tin, were fo finful, and had fuch malignity in it as the Lord would not pardon. Thus Foure is put, for the fourth, Prev. 3o. 15, 18 ; 21 , 29 Three things are never fatisfied, yea four things fay ,Xx 2 not
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