412 Chap. i s. AnExpofitionupon the Rookof Jos. Ver(. 12 .011 and memorable in man, are but vain, and fubjeEt toa ¡widen de- cay. What then lay by, and efteem as a monument to poflerity, or as a memorial to preferve their names to all generations; how often is it fcattered like allies in the air, all fpilt like waterupon the ground, whichcannot be gathered up ? Men for their remem- brance ufeto fet up the moll laffing materials ; pillars of marble, or Pyramids of (+one. It is laidof Abfalom, that hein his life- , time had ttzk,en and reared up for himfelf a pillar, andho called it after has own name, becaufe hehad nofox to ,keep his name in reruem- brance : Yet that remembrance of his proved like afhes, and fo will all that, whatfoever it is,'which vain men frame or fancy to themfelves to make themmemorable and renowned among po- fierity or fucceeding ages. Your remembrances are like unto allies; which will receive a clearer evidence when .1 have alittle Proprie fig, opened the later claufe of this verse. luperiorem par- And your bodies to bodies of clay. tem Qr prom; neatem, unde That is, As afhes are a fit parable or Gmilitudeto fhadow out vox latina gib- all thepermanency orexcellency of your remembrances, fo á bus credenda eft bodÿ, or a heapof clay, Is a'f fficient parableor fimilitudeofall fluxiffe. Raba Mardoc. the value and dgnityof your bodies. Gabba,bteft fuggeftftm e Tour bodies,, mit. hens lapidibus The word ( Gab) which we tranflate body, fignifies any thing, ftratum. which is high, lifted u and eminent or the upper and u ertour art Yult c(uicquid g P f p P zn ipfzs poti/fa_ "o ofany thing. It fail (job.x9.x 3) that Pilatefate down in the M10 enaanet judgementfeat; in ;a place that zs called in the iebrexr Gabbatha,_ Seats of judgmentare erehed and fet u in eminent places, that fo the Judge may be in the peoples view. According to which acceptation of the word, the meaning riles thus ; That which is highell in you, your greaten elevatious,are like toa lumpofclay.. And fo he oppoìtiòn tlands fair .between this and the former verse ; there Yob tels hits - 'ftierlds; that the -excellency of God may junlymake them afraid. Butwhat is your excellency? As your remembrances, or whatfoever is moll memorable in you, are like unto allies fo alíyour excellencies, compared with the excellency of God, are but like a clod of clay. Hence Obferve, That which is moll high and excellent in 7tetn3 compared with she effe cumulum luti. Merl. . Et tumulus luti altiora veRra, tatn. Cognata vote faltrar ir ar,o- gantiav.ocatur in Scriptxra 8hobah 17/3 undo a Kimehi exponitur om nis altitudo- mirae;atia.
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