Chap. go. An Expofition upon the ßoo*e of J `O B. Vert 23. that feafon, theywere eating, & drinking, marrying, & giving it marriage, and then God rained upon them the fury ofhis wrath. The children ofI¡'rael luftedafter flefh (Pf.78.) and the Lord gave it them; He rainedflefh upon them as duf!,andfeathe- redfawles like as the fandofthe Sea(ver.z7.)But he rainedwrath upon them with it (ver. 30, 3i. ) while their meat was yet in their mouths,(whila they were eating) the wrath of godcame up- on them, and flew thefatteft ofthem, andfmote down the chofen menof Ifrael. All thefe inftances.concenter fully in Zopleare Text That In thefulneffe of his /ufítcienc_y, and while he is taking his fwee- teft content in his fufficiencie, God raines down wrath. Further, The old Latine tran(lator gives the words thus ue fuper ess And he ¡hall raine his war upon him.This difference arifeth front VeFlit t uun. tl;,ie copioufneffe of the Originali word, Lecher's, which asit rcti bPt fignifies eating, or any thing eaten; fo alfo warre andbattell. ¡o n a i=ptp The reafen is, becaufe the sword is a devourer, and in warre vefd,edere quia men eat up one another ; Nation eats up Nation ; as men eat in beüohominca other fle(h, (owarre is an eater, and devourer of men t there- !e invicemca- fore the fame word may well lignifie to eat, and to make war deudo devorant And this Tran(lation, though the Grammaticali forme of the dry Qb(umunt. Hebrew iswrefted by it (and therefore I lay it by) yet renders the fcopeofthe Text fully, and anfwers that ofthe it. Pjalme (ver 5, 6.) The Lordtryetb the righteous, but him that !meth violence hisfoulehateth; upon the wicked hefball rainefnares, fire, and brimf#one, and an horrible tempeff;thisAd be theporti- on oftheir cup. Which (I conceive) may (in purfuance ofZa- pbárs fimilitude) be thus illuftrated, as ifhe had Paid, when he is drinking, when he hath a cupoffweet wine in his hand, or fomedelicious liquor at his lips, God (hall raine fire and brim- ftone, and an horrible tempeft intoor upon his cup ; the wrath ofGod fhall fill his cup, and fo be (as it were the portion of it. While the wicked man is drinking, wrath is the portion ofhis cup, and while he is eating, wrath is the ,portion ofhis difh. God(hallraine on him while he iseating. Zophar having thus farrecarried on this point, (hewingwhat God will doe with the wicked man in all his enjoyments; thews yet other wayes aril inftruments, which Godpreparetèt and armcth to vex and ruinehim. Cccc.z jòs. 63
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