Chap. 20. An Expofition upon the Bookof J O B. Verf. 575 11% the body is to the foule, The fheath ofit. low faith he, it is drawne, and cometh out of lais body : that is,it is pulled out of his e uiver,ind put into the bow ready tobe fi"tot:Thus Mr Ercugh- t<;n,the Aeron' (hail be drawn and come eut of the quiver: OEl'ers Ex-jr e corpore conceive, that b ' bnGaey we are t0 nndeYftdnd tire body of him i. e. tv"gens, tli7t íhoors,b:caule the Artier hangs his quiver by his Ci ,_'e.ard Sua éli velue G .orpcs,gladro when he puts out Zn arrow, it is as if he-p..ilied it ont of his bo intr.t,mm ccn- ehe. tinetur, ret Ii Laftly, Take it properly, it a drawn, and comet!: out of his ad ¡'g'varn re- b:'die, that is,out of the bodyof the wicked man,againfl whom fora eft phare' it was (hot, it flrikes him thorow, and cometh out of-his body ira, mac. bzyond him. And fo it is a circumlocution to c eprcffe 'a deep and deadly wöund. It is (that is, the bow is ) drawn, and com- eth out cfhis bodies That is,the {hot hits the man and comes out of his body. So the next claufe fuies with ir. Tea theglittering, fword cometh out of his gall. As ifhe had fäid : As loon as he is thicken thorowwith the àr"ow, he (hall be run thorowwith the fword too. The word whichwe tranflate glitteringfenordproperly fi gn.fies lightning, and in that language the blade ofa fword, becaufe when a man hrandiflieth a well furbifh.ed fword,it glitters and flafhes in the Actes vei !amt. eye like lightning. So the Prophet Ezekiel defcribes the-fword nagtadlj suet- (Chap. 2I.9, I o.) Afiord, a fword is fharpned,- and alfo fur- latur f.'ebraiee bi ed It is fhar ned to make a forefltughter,it is urbi lsed that p f 1'f01 {)gOYYS it may glitter. And as it lignifies a fword,fo alfo (upon the farne rrorefp'erdeat.,. ground) the head of an arrow : For if the head ofan arrow, of feele, or b.affe, be made very bright,it glitters in thegyre like lightning, as a fword loth : And we read in Scripture of ma- king arrows bright as well as fwords : as the fame Prophet -' fpeakes in the fame Chapter (verf. 2I.) The Ding of Babylon ¡roodat theparting ofthe way, at the headof the two wages to ufe divination : he made hisarrows bright. And (Zech. 9, 14.) His arrows (hall goeforth ou lightning.Thus we may render it here, keeping hill to the allufon.of lightning :The bowoffreele /.all ¡bike him thorow, it is drawne, and cometh out of the bedie, and glittering it comes out ofhis gall. So,Mr Broughton: the arrows (hall be drawn and come out of the quiver, the head fhallbe in his gall, That is, the headofthe arrow. But whether we expound the word (Barak).of the fword or ache arrowhead, it makes no
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