358 Chap. 19. An Bxpofiticnupon the Book of J OB. Verf 26. dowse in the earth. Both which are evidenced and evinced from thole pliages in the Text : 1 fhaltfee him ïnmy flefh ; Mine eye ß411behold, andnot another; I, my, mine, andnot another, imply nothing, if not himfelfe, or no other thing but himfelfe. From all we mayconed how excellent a confefiion of faith yob made about that g-eat myfrery ofthe refurrec`rion, and how lifinely his foulc was eftablithed in it. Verf. 26. erInd though after myskin wormerdeftrey this holy. I will not fray eyther upon the opening or difproving of the tranflationof the vulgar latine; which as it varieth extreamly wide from the Originall in the dole of the former Verfe, fo at the beginningof this. There inflead of He Jball fi?andupon theearth in the latter day ( as we tranflate ) 'cis rendred, IAall rife againe in the latter day. And whereas here we fay,Though af- Lt rur(um tir ter my skin wormes deftroy this body ; that reading is, and I /hall cumdabor pelle be atraine encompaffed about, (or cloathed) with my skin. This mew. vulg. daftdifference in the tranflrionsariferh from hence, becaufe the word which we render to deftrey, may be derived fr,;m a double root; eyther from a root that fignifies to compaffe orcircle a thing t?, vet a round, or as we and mofr Grammarians derive it from aroot that radree >> fignifies to break, or to dellroy, to dimini/h, or crumble a thing. ( as circurniedit ve! it were ) into thefmalleft pieces or atomes. a PJ eomri- A fecond reading we give in the margine of our Bibles Îg g g vtt re tt. after I(hall awake; though this bodie be deftroyed, yet, &t. whereas we fay in theText, Thoughafter my skin wormes deftray this body. We put in the margine, After Ilbaltawake, &c. The reafon -is, becaufe the fame word in the Hebrew which lignifies the skin fignifies in the Verbe , to awake or arife from fleepe. Matter' Brou&hton gives light to this, in the expofition of his own tran- flatión, And after this my skin isfjent. Which he gloffeth thus, in the perfonof 706 ; Andafter wormes #end this my skin andflefb, Imeaneafter my refurreftion,and I tale adoubtful! word to conteine both. A; if a wordwere intentionally ufed by lob, which fignifies both his kin, and his awakingor refurre5tion, that fo we might take it both wayes, and neyther of them both againft, eyther the fcope of the Text, or againfr the truth ('cis ufuall in Scrip- ture to compare death to fleepe, and the refurreetion to awak- ires ) When ( faith he) I awake, thoughthis be deftroyed, I(hallfee God.
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