428 Chap. 6. An Expofition upon the Böolt ff OB. . Verf They are inflruments drawing blood and drinking bÌoud,'even untodrunkennefs;at$idions are like arrows in all thefe properties, r. Aifi .tions often come very fpeedilyaitith a glance;as An ar- row, quick as a thought. 2. AiBiátionscome fuddenly, unexpectedly ; an arrow is upon a man afore he is aware : fo are afi ±ions. Though Job faith, The thing he feared came upon him, he looked for this arrow be- fore it carne ; yet ufually aff fictions are unhooked for guests, they thruft in upon us, when we dream notof them. 3. They comewith littlenoife : anhrrow is felt before, or as loon as it is heard : an arrow flees filently, and fecretly, fleabag upon and wounding a man, unobferved, and unfeen. Laflly, all aflliEfions are (harp, and in their own nature kil- ling and deadly. That any have good from, them, is from the grace ofGod, not from their nature. Thepoifon whereof drinketh up my f irit. warum indig There's the effec`if of his afflidtions. Some reade it, The furie oleic. Vulg. or anger whereof drinks up i y f irit. l t may be called the Furor. Sept. fury and anger of an arrow, becaufe the arrow is often lent in Fervor, T)gur: fury and in anger. We read alfo of the fire ofan arrow, or of a plurimiVenenic fiery arrow, ( Pf 76.4,) There breakeff thou the arrowes of the bow.. 51j1 ssgitta, Arrows even fireing themfelves by the fwiftnefs oftheir motion. ignito, igcilef- The word ofthe Text is derived from a root, fignifying to centmatu, waxe verybot, and in the Nownebeaté: Hence by a fignifies angry, becaufe angry men waxe hot, Anger is Metaphor raid adife g fire. (lfa. 42. 25. ) Therefore he hath powered upon them the oluc hurt furie ofhis anger, and the firength ofbatte1, and it loath fee him çudiI on fire round about. Fire and fury, are near in name, and in na- ratiinca. turn. When fury hurries within, fire quickly burnes without, and by a Metonymie the fame word fignifes poifon;the reafon is, be- caufe poifons heat and inflame;poyfons inflame the flefh, and(as it were)fet the body on fire,or becaufe an angry man,' like an.an- g,ry Serpent ) feems to breath out fire, or fpet poyCon. Paul before his converfion, breathed threatnings, fire and fword a_ gainil the Church, A. g. t. And therefore,either way,the word is well rendered, The anger whereof, or thepoyfon whereof drinketh.up myfpirit. And in the Greek the fame word fignifies anger and PfaL 58. 4. poyfon ; becaufe ofthat inflammation which is about the heaxa. of Ltthoepro ads. aman throughly angry, gn:
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