5$o Chap., 7. An Expofition upon theBookof 1 O B. Verf 2. about me. Therefore Eliphaz, whyfhould Inot call to have my dayesfummed up, that Imay fee the end and femme of.thefe trou- hies; Or wherefore wouldefi thou flay my complaint againjt my life, or flop my defire ofdeath, by giving me hopes of many dayes, andof a flourefhing efiate in this world 1 That's his firft argument, from the general condition of man- kind. Now he proceeds toconfider fomewbatmore fpecial in that condition, Verle 2, As a fervant eárneflly defireth the fhadow , and as an hireling lookethfor the rewardof his work. Verfe 3. So am Imade topofefs months of vanity, and wearifom . nights are appointed to me. Traxit affect As afervant earneftly defireth . ado: per Mesa- Tode pboram, inhia- fire earneftly, is but one word in the original ; it is fo full vú,ardeut er Of fence, that we cannot empty it into any one word in our lan- cupiir,guienmm guage. The letter is, Ar a fervant breaths after thefhadon, vehemenrera- And becaufe a man,that hath anearneft longing delire fora thing; Iiquidcupiuru, breaths and gafps after it,therefore that word, which fi prs fiefd rub' g- expetiationá ashes togape and draw in the air pantingly,lignifiesalfo to defire, magnitudine ad or todefirc earneftly, As afervant earneftly defireth, os rem tralaunt feu frequetsrins The fhadam,. refpironr. Some underíland it for thenight, when the fervant comes to reft him fellafter his labour all the day. Night is brit a great fhaddow. Secondly, We may take it for the fhadow of the day ; A fervant that is heated in labour abroad in the open field, earneftly defiresa fhadow, to get undera treeor a bufh, a little to refreflt himfelf. Or, Thirdly, the fhaddowmay be taken for the houle : to come in- toa mans houle,-or under a mans roof, is called a coming under his fhadow, Gen. 19. 8. Therefore they are come under my fhadow, faith Lot to the men of Sodome, that is, under the covert of my roof. ümbtaidfi ni- The fhadow is ufed often in Scripture to note prote6ion and g mercy, Shadows arefubflantial mercies, and the promifes ofafha- gendquodprote dory isa real favour, Ifa. 6. The Church path a romife. under genlocu,(jodi- p enfio oburnbrar. thliS notion, 7here/I:all he a Tabernacle for a fhadow in the day time
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