Chap,i6. AnExpofition upon the Book, of JOB. Vert. i o. 269 Firft, They have gaped upon me with their mouth. Gaping with, or opening the mouth, implies two things. First, Scorn and derifion , Lam.2 16. Al thine enemies have opened the mouth agaifi thee, they hilt andgnafh the teetb;they fay we have (wallowed her up : certainly this is the day we looked for. The Church inafflidion was afhióted with fcornful gettures. Secondly, As gaping with the mouth notes (corn, fo alto cruelty ; he that gapes at another , tells him ( though he fay nothing) that he could devour him, and eat him up (as we fay ) Without Salt. Such anone thews that he needs no fauce,. PP/. 22. 13. They gaped uponme with their mouths, as a ra- vening and roaring Lyon : A. Lyon gapes at his prey to devour it ; Job often complains both of the contempt and cruelty of many again fl him ;- and their gaping upon hitn includesboth ; which are all() again intimated in the next claufe. They havefmitten meupon the cheekreproachfully. Some render it , Reproaching me , they have fmitten me on the cheek,: Smiting on the cheek is taken two ways. Literally. Metaphorically, What literal fmiting is,all'know and moll have felt,but had Yob any about himwhotlfed him thus rudely ? I conceive not; and therefore we may un lerfand him Metaphorically. So, fmiting on the cheek is to reproach :And thefe words , They bavefmitten me on ipe chee'kreproachfully, are no more nor lets, then , They have reproached me. To finite on the cheek , is a thing fo reproachful, that by an Hebraifine , it fignifieth to percutere reproach, Lam. 3. 3o. He giveth his cheek, to him that fmiteth mammon He_ him, which is expounded in the latter claufe by this, He is fil- braica iocutio led full with reproach. The futferings of Chrift which wereefl,quafgnUi- full ofreproach, are thus Prophefied, l gavemy back to the fmi. cat g a1iá to sers, andmy cheeks to them that pluckedoft he hair: Ibid not my coat meliio a, face from Jhame and (pitting, Ifa. go.6. Chrift was fmitten on the face literally Matth. 26. 67. Then did they fpis in bis face and buffetedhim,& others (mote bimwith thepalms oftbeir hands, He was fmitten allo tropically , being put to open fb;ame , and difgracefully- dealt with. Thatof the Apoltic clears ,
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