454 Chap.i7. EinExpofition upon the Book of JOB. Vert'. 6. Exifi?imant ef je vocem quo fìgnif+car,bo- tainum vel principem,q: d; qui princeps eramfa£lus fun inprover- bium fabut lam.ikab.Lev. Vatabl, the people. Yob wasa Tabret ire the ears of God, whenhe was a by«word among the people. Thirdly, Becaufe a Trabret or Drum isempty of all but aire, and giveth nothing but a found ; forne interpret thus, I am before them as an emptyVeffel, or as one that loath nothing in him but wind, andfrom whom nothing comes but afound of words ; that is, They look upon me as a man of no real worth. Paul faith of himfeil that though he fpake with the tonguesof men andAngels ; that is, With the molt excellent tongues. Angels have no tongues, nor have they any faces as menhave, yet in Scripture, the face ofan Angel is put for the mote beau- tiful face, and the tongue ofan Angel for the molt eloquent tongue among all the Children of men : Now faith Pau' though .1 had the tongucofAngels, or men, and were the belt, fpeaker that eìrer was, yet ( being void of truecharity) / fhould become as afoundingbrats anda tinkling Cimbal, t Cor. t 3 . r. fuch a tinkling Cimbal was Job efteemed, a Drum full of aire, or an empty Veffel, as Jerufalem was left by the King ofBaby; ion, Jer, 5i; 34 Fourthly, Some both of the Rabbins and latter Writers tels us, that Tophet is a Chaldee word, fignifying Lord, or a Prince: And they refer us foraconfirmation to, Dan. 3.2. Where we find the word put into the Summons which Nebuchadnezzar lent to his Nobles and great Officers, for their attendance at the dedication of the Image which he had fet up : We rent der it , Sheriffs, whether our word hits that is doubtful, but without doubt it dignifies fuch is were in high Au- thority, being there Marthall'd before the Rulers of the Pro- vinces. Taking this interpretation of the Word, Job's meaning is, l am now aprovince, or a man of no credit , though heretofore I was a Prince , or Rulers in their prefence. Some rejet# this becaufe the mixture of the Chaldee with the Hebrew, was long after Jobs time, which yet may be eafily reconciled.And the fence is good, being indeed the fame in fubttance with the fecond Expofition. Fifthly, This word Tophet which lignifies a ®rum, ór (.as . we) a Tabret, which is a fmaller Drum_( fore there is the Martiall Drum, or the Drum of War, and the Tabret,which is ,a Mirth Drum, a Drum ufed at Sports, andDancing, this word
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