Chap. 20. An Expofition xpoáa the Bookof J o B. Verf. thus be Peen and exalted, /hall fee a day wherein ( through their fall) God alone will be exalted. When any are defigning to build high and reach Heaven with their Towers (as they did, gen. a r.) Then the Lord faith, Goe to, let tugoe down and con- found their language. Wce to high fpirits and their highTowers whenGod faith, 1 will goe down, for thenboth they and their Towers (hall affuredly gee down. No creature canBand when onceGod goes thus down. If God appear thus where is man? how and whether is he gone ? Zophar Teems to anfwer thefe quellions in the next words. Verf. 8. Ile lhaldflie away as a dream, and [hall not befound, yea he ¡hall be chafed away ae avifionofthe night. This verle containes two Gmilitudes, both which illultrate that one pofition which Zophar laid down in the two former verfes, That wicked men (hall perifh for ever andbe feesno more. 471 He ,'hall flie away To run is more then to goe, and to flie is more then to runs Wings are too nimble for leggs, and therefore in Scripture thofe things which move or paffe from us with greateft celeri- ty ( though they have no wings, yet) are laid to flie away. As for Ephraim (faith the Lord by the Prophet, Hof 9. a t.) their glory (hall flieaway like a bird, from thebirth, andfrom the womb, andfrom the conception ; that is, whatfoever Ephraim rnoft gloried in, and that was the multitudeof their people, (accor- ding to the Prophecy of7acob (Gen. 48. 19.) and the Etymo- logic of their name ( Gen. 41. 52.) This glory ¡hall depart fuddenly, their numbers (hall loon be leffened, either by the deathof their children as foon as they are borne, or by abor- tion in the womb as foon as they are formed, yea as foon as they are conceived. They whomake fuchhaft out of the world, thatthey die as loon as they began to live, may well be laid to file from the birth, and from the womb, and from the con- ception. Thus faith Zophar ofthe wicked man, He/hallflie way. And how /hall he flie ? As a bird ? That's very fwiftly ; and the . originali word implies the flying ofa bird ; but the Similitude leads to that which will out- flie a bird, fl dream or a viftpn of the nigh,
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