Chap.a7. An Expof3tion upon the Book, of J O B. Ver.6, 457 where defcribing the feveral torments which the Saints of the Old Church among the Jews endured, he faith, Women c et 9 I. received their dead railed to life again, andothers were tortured. wexcatl oaV: So we tranflate : The Greek is Others were drummed, that is, they endured the torture of Tympanization, or Drumming ; which word allo ufed by the compiler ofthehiflory oftheMacf cabees, 2 Macebab.6.19.28 . who tells us that Eleazar, and dpawpvms other Martyrs were Tympanized or Drummed ; he offered cmiFt- himfelf willingly to the torment or Drum ; the manner of VG' escoî°,. whichmay be eafily colleéed from the thirtiethVerfe of that Chapter in the Maccabees, where the Author faith,4s be was ready to give up the ghoft, b ecaufe ofthe ftroaks, &c.which (hews two things. Fir(}, That the torture was by beating with haves, or Cudgles. Secondly, That it ,was not ufual for men to dye under fuch beatings, that punifhment not being to death , but to pain and difgrace ; as appears alto from that ofPilate concerni ing Chri(1, who when he found nothing in him worthy of death, faid,I will chaftife C or beat) him, and releafehim, Luke 23. i 5,z6. And Paul receivedforty (tripesfave one, five times of the 'fews ( which feems to have born a torture fomewhat like this we are now upon) andwas thrice beaten with Rods, and yet furvived them all, 2 Cor.u.24, 25. TheProphet Nahum alfo may be thought to allude to this cuflorne, Na.z. 7. And Huzzah which force take for the proper name of the Queen ofNinevie)fball be led away captive, the ¡hall be brought up, andher maidsfhall leadher as with the voice of Doves, tabring (or drumming) upon their breafts, it is this word in the Text; that is, They (hall infliá that punifh- ment upon themfelves, which others uIe to inflict on evildo- ers, as if he hadPaid, They (hall torture themfelves, or be their own tormentors for very grief and vexationof thofe n i feries which their enemies (hall bring upon them. As the poor Publican filled with godly forrow and remorfe for his (in, Smote upon his breajt, Luke 18. 13. Soit is ufual for fuch as are overburdened with worldly forrow, to finite 4ipcta their brea(is, and add a voluntary pain to that which is in- yob is conceived to aim at this form of punifhment and N n n then li
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