42o Chap.i7. AnExpeftion upon the Book of J O B: Vetf.3 'ryV1t1 a D-1,1 The Original word properly fgnifying to undertake for, rljrdei jubere or to ive credit and affurance in the behalfof another ; and pro aliqua, fu gi fidemreci. hence the Noune derived from it , fignifies an earnest, because pere. klinc an earneft layd down is a realfurety, that filch a thing (hall be arrabofp',itus. performed. In which feule Thamar ufeth the word, Gen.38. Pone pignut, r 7 who when Judabgpromifed to fend a Kid of the Goates, r7eremm,hie faid,wilt thougive me a pledge till thoufend it? and hence in the rectum. Pang. New Tefiament the word Arraba is ufed in the Greek, as alto Dirpone qu.efo in the Latine, for the earneft ofthe Spirit, or for that affurance confponforeni which the Spirit fettles upon the hearts ofbelieversin thisiife Jun.tccum. that they (hall inherit eternal life, 2 Cor. 22. Who bath alto Idum drrobo. fealed us, andgiven the earneff of the Spirit in our hearts. And nem dabs+? again , 2 Cor. 5.5. Now he that bath wrought usfor the felf- fame thing is God; God having prepared a place for us,prepares us for the place, and thengives us our evidences, that in due time we (hall take poífeffion ofit. Who alto hatb given us the earneff ofthe Spirit. The fame Apoflle tells us,the Ephefians, that, After they believed they were Pealed with the Spirit of pro- mise, which is the earneff ofour inheritance, till the redemption ofthe purchafed pole f on, Ephef. r. t4. So that an earneft is a real furety, and a furety is a personal Barnett. While Job faith, Put mein afurety, his meaning is, he would have Come person to be anundertaker for the orderingofhis caufe, or an ensurer that all (hould be performed according to the deter: ruination that should be given about it.Put in afurety with me. Secondly, The words may be conceived as an allufion to thofe, who goingbefore a Judge, or having a cause to be try. ed by Umpires, Life to lay down an ingagement, or as we call it, an Affempfit, that they will ftand to the award , or arbitri- ment, which (hall be made, Put me in afurety with thee. vpriSig: De- ,ßgero mfige° re,CYfidecon traliibur dici. tur,percutere manum. Who isbe that willfirike hands withme. He proceeds in the fame allufion. Thefe words aredifpo- fed two wayes : Someput the interrogation after He; Give orputmeinafurety, Who is he? I would gladly fee the man, or know who it is; Who is he? let him come andJirike hands withme, whofoever' beis; As if he had Paid) I {ail ealily a gree
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