Chap. "<6. AnExpófrtionKpontheBooke;ofJ Q"B, Verf, . 4. 429 In thefe words. Job feems to allude to the culome of cruel favage men, who, when theypurfued their enemies with deadly Dénenaru rs hatred, and would wound them todeath, ufed to dip the head of vido faqiro, their arrowes,the, topof their fpeares,or the point oftheir (words, _ tharerra, or whatfoever weapon they fought with, in poyfon, that fo every Hor. wound might be a death ; The poyfon offuch an arrow, fpeare or ki morrxfe- fword,drinks up the fpirit,and corrupts the blond prefently.Some igne at ne t t4 poifon flukes the heart, alma, as loon as the weapon ftrikes the ommiavipereb arme. Job compares the arrovves, which God fhot into him,not,p:rula Felle to ordinary arrows, whichkill only by peircing, but to poifon'd limn,, ovíd. arrowes, which kill by infecting ; As if God had Pet himfelfe to I. r deporro. the utmoft to powre out the fiercenefs of his indignation upon mereror per- g P fatum utpo- him ; not only fhooting an arrow, but an arrow diet in poifon, nane wenenum fuch anarrow, as the moll barbarous and cruel men (hoot at their ferpenti .ia fa- mofl profefled and mortal enemies. g :rr f ,R. Drinketh up myfpirit. ] Poifon gets quickly to the fpirits, and íolo theredrinks : poifon is fubtile and fpiritful, and therefore (if I may fo fpeake) incorporates with that which is mol fubtile in man, his fpirit.Flat,pal'd,grofs or dreggifh liquor,wili not quench the fiery thinly poifon, it drinks nothing but pure fpirits yet tome reade,It drinketh upmyblood;but this amounts to the fame fenfe, for the fpirit ofa livingcreature is in theblood ; the fpirits fwim in the blood. There are different opinions"about thisfpirit, or what we are to underftand by it. Firl, Some take fpirit here, for the breath, or for the as of ?'or confu/fur breathing; As if he had faid,I have received fo many wounds,by vfpt aeui thefe poifoned arrowes,that I begin to faint, and cannot drawmy A9uian breath;Thefearrowes fup up my fpirit,and by wounding,flop my breath. Secondly, Othersunderland it more generally, taking fpirit for his firength and vigour;fpirits are fo firong, that they are put for flrength, The ./Egyptians are men and not God, and their bar- feiflefb andnotfpirit ( Ifa. 3 i.3. ) that is, they are not flrength, but weaknefs. So here, it drinketb up my fpirit, that is, the flrength that is in me, all the powers and abilities of body and Deleresser foule, are waled and confumed:Thefe calamities fpend upon my wep'enirao e- fpirit, where the lock ofmy frength is laid up,or which is the ttoruanr, arg; lock whereinmy flrength lies. exhaujlorobora A third apprehends, that f f iris y htneanes his_ judgement, nT,u"' Yip reafon .
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