Chap. 6. An Expofition uponthe Booke ofJ O B. Vert, 6. eaten then ? Then to fay, Can that which is ttnfavctery be eaten without fait, 443 Or is there any tafle in the white of an Egg ? Thefe words are much obfcured by molt Tranílators,and have 1212 found almoft as manycxpofitions,as Ezrpofitors.Somc tranfiate rrtn thus, Is there any tafle in that, whichbatngtaken brings death ? $o ,tnF®rejiule- the Vulgar Doubtlefs a manbath but little pleafure to tafle çuis gcf1sro rhat,which tatted will be hisdeath fo the words are an aggra %ved geßsru vation of the unfavourinefs of thole things, which were offered T Vu est Marna' him by his friends t to touch or take thena,was to take poifon, g. or to drink in a deadly cup. To clear upup this Expofition, they make the Hebrew word Chalamutb, fignifying to dye,whence hvfaserb, death, and Chala, fignifying froth, or fome,or from Cheat, fignifying infirmity: As if the word haying thefe words put together had this fence, The froth and foam of death, or, The infirmities ofdeath: that is, ,_ ly froth, on deadly infirmity. As if he had laid is there any plea- fing tatte, in the (pestle of dying men, who we know often tome and froth at their mouthes, when they draw;,.g on. Others thus, Is there any tafle in the fpittle of a healthy man; Of t1 The word (Rir) which we tranflate white, lignifies fpettle or ezrur,ronva(ttt froth ; As when Davidaced the mad-man before the King of Garb, it is raid that he let his ¡petele fail flows upon his beard, It Sam. i t, t 33. And the word whichwe tranflate, Egge, figni- fies Health, and the Verb to be healthy. Chap. 39.4. of this book, Their young ones are ire good liking. So, Ifaab 38. verfe t6. Bit I leave this, as a very direafed and fickly in'erpreta- tion. IUrall therefore pars from their, to our own rendring, Is Inol mlae there any tafein the white ofan Egge, fo Mr Brssogbton, I,r there ary tafle in the white of the yolk? And in the root to want fat or flróng and it is therefore taken for the yolke of the Egge, becaufe that is the farter,groffer,and morecoridenfe part of the Egge. As the white being the thinner,. and much like fpettle, is therefore cX preft by a word, which alto lignifies fpettle. The whits Of an egge, is an emblearn of things,without tafle Lila or
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