Cap. 17. dóth, not underftand that Text ofIJaiah in is firft and literal fenfe,ofthe temporary judgements which God threatned to powre out upon the State and King ofBabylon, as moll in a Tropological and Allufive fenfe, Interpret it ofeternal judge/ went in Hell, which is indeed a fiery Tophet, and is prepared of old; yea for the King it is prepared , for the great King. of Affyria, as well as for the rteaneti perfon. There is a feventh Tranflation and Expofition of thefe words which takes the former part of the Verle as was toucht upon the laft, and reads the whole thus For he will make me oreuz a Governour among the people, though I have thus been made as ir..iieú ro in matterfor the Fidlers erTaberers Songs. So that, as the for- t,r.rjirlen_ mer Expofition renders the Text as a complaint, proceeding d renU1 popu.? from jobs grief, that he who had been a great Man, a Gaver- l pmovit hour of the people, thould be now punifht as a flave or as a rummneria Malefaaor ; for this renders it as a Prophefìe,proceeding from antefuerim. his Faith, That Godwould reflore and raife him again to be a Jut,. Governour among the people, though now he was the (corn duindigñ r and derifion of the people. tem mean This reading rifts cleerly enough from the words of the olriut prove Text, yet I have one exception againftit , as to the conftant her. Jun. Tenour of fobs profdflon ; who though he were full of faith in God, that it thould go weU With him for eternity, yet he conftantly difclaims any hope of Reftauration to a temporal greatnefs ; and having laid at the beginning of this Chapter, My dales are extinll, the Graves are readyfor me, it Teems un- fuitable to fay here( which -is- the fenfe of this Tranflation ) My worldly joyes are bloffoming, the Thrones are read] fr me And therefore ( with much reverence to the learned Author) I lay by this Interpretation. Laflly, Mailer Broughton tranflates thus, That maketh me a byword to the people, and Iamopenly a Taber : He applyes it not(as we ) to the former time,but to that tirne,lam aTabrer, and that openly, or in open view, in the fight ofall. We fay of a man that is abufed and jeered, He isplayed tepon ; fo faith job( according to this rendring ) Theyplay upon me as a lag ber, they rejoyce in my fuiferings, they make themfelves mer- ry with my forrows, and rej ,yce at my calamity ; fo the Lords of the Philitlims dealt with Samfon , having put out his eyes and imprifoned him, they fent for thim, to make them fpor$ An Expofition upon the Book of J OB, Verf.6, 4 6 t
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