Chap.' 6. AnExpofition upon the Boot, of J 013: Vert r e). 275 that is,Chrífts,no man would bear it, and they will yeeld to it do any thing rather then Curter reproach , who are not able to fay that their reproach is the reproach of Chrift. Mofes looked upon his reproach, as the reproach of Chrift,he did not etteem his own reproach, but the reproach of Chrift greater riches, then the treafures of .Ægypt, Heb. i I. 29. Our re: ?roach is nothing but dung or drofs which hath weightin it to prefsus , but no worth in it to enrich us ; but the reproach of Chrift is treafure , which though i t have weight in it to prefs us, yet it hath aboundance of worth in it to enrich and crown us. The Apoftle calls it , The reproach of Chrift, both becaufe Chrift did bear fuch reproach himfelf, and becaufe Chrift owned Mofes in bearing that reproach ; yea he owned that reproach whichMotes bare, as ifhe had born it himfelf;while we are reproached for Chrif}s fake, Chrift is re. proached ; and though it Ihould grieve us that Chrift is re- preached in us, yet it may comfort us , that Chrift takes our reproach as his. They havefmitten me on the cheekreproachfut- ly, and yet they have not done with me. They havegathered themfelver together againft me. It teems they contemned and reproached him fingly , or e- very man apart; but they joynedaltogether in confultingand plotting againft him. °The word that we tranflate to gather together,hath a fecond lignification, namely, to fill, either as a room is filled with Goods,or Perlons, or as the flomack is filled with meat , or food, or as an Army with Men. Hence Matter Broughton tranflates, They come byfull. Troops upon me : And another, They will be filled with me, or upon me. The Vulgar explains it thus,Tbey are filledor fatiatedwithmy punifhment;or as a third, They have taken their fill o fpleafure at my miferies, The reafon of this fence arifeth from the former ; becaufe where many things or perfons are gathered together:, they fill up that place. Frft, it fignifies to gather together; as menare gathered in a civil Society, and combination : Job fuppofed his Friends confpired his hurt,and that they gathered themfelvs together againfi him, who pretended togather themfelves together for N n 2 him; r,Implere cow: plere. z. ColIir gere,congrego- requad rebus eolletlir imple,6 ontur loca,
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