Chap. 5. ' in Expofttion upon theBook ofJ OB. Vert 20. 351 1. What is meaht by thefcourge of the tongue ? 2. What it it to be hidfrom it. The fcourge of the tongue. ] Mr. Broughton reads it thus, Thou 'halt be delivered( or thou ¡halt be bid ) when the tongue kotemp,re whippet h. And another to the fame fence , At what time the linguaflage8a- toxgue (hall be fcourging of men, thou (halt be floured from it. biehaeiines. And that word ( Lefhon ) the tongue, in Piel, fignifies to detrat2, Drut. to traduceorflander ; the fame word is ufed both for the infiru- jj? 121ü,'ß ment of the tongue, andone of the worft ads of the tongue, ca- in piel oftde-- lumination ; or we may render it according to the exaá let- trahere vetno ter of the Hebrew elegancy, toBetongue a man : We ufe fuch a Ceretinguo. kind of (peaking in our language, as to firike a man with a cudgel or a Canefaffe, is to cudgel or cane a man ; and if a man be (hot with apiftol,he will fay he waspiftol'd,fo a man (mitten with ano- thers tongue, is Paid in the Hebrew,to be betongu'd, or fuch anone bath betongu'd him. We leave the Verbe, and tranflate by the Nowne : Front the [courge ofthe tongue. In conflruction ( Beth ) In, is often ren- dred by ( Min) From, as Grammarians know, Thou ¡halt love the Lord shy God in all thy heart, or from thy whole heart, or from the heart root : So here, Thou¡halt be hid in the fcourge; that is, tbou'halt be hidfrom thefcourge, when the tongue is lath- ing and whipping, thou (halt behid from the lath and fcourge of tongues. But what may we underftand by this fcourgeofthe tongue ? Firft, Some take it for publique accufations before a Judge or M gdt agifirate.Many fcourge their brethren at the Tribunal ofprin- ces, Rev. i 2. That accufer ofthe. brethren,that traducer, the De- jjeY'ere vil, is conceived to make thole accufations by his agents, in thole a hi9sxap times, before theheathen Emperours, againft the Chrifians, The dhus, Chriftans in that age, were extremely fcourged by malignantand malevolent tongues, tongues fet on fire of hell, as the Apotite . fames fpeaks, Chap. 3.6. And fo the fcourgeof the tongue, may be that punifhment, which they byfalfe. accufations obtained a- gainft the innocent ; their tongues got judgement againft them fometimes to be fcourged or whipt;therefore alto, that verywork of the tongue is well called fcourging. Our Lord Jefus was cru- cified upon the tongues ofthe ewes, before he was crucified upon the croft by the Romans. The Jews.cryed out firft, crucifie him, crucifie bit, here was the.crofs of, the.tongue ; The confpira tors againft:
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