:576 Chap. 20. AnExpofition upon the Books of JO B. .Vert. 25 no difference as to Zopbars fcope, which is only to fhew that the wicked man (hall certainly receive a deadly blow. There is yet another tranflation, which draws up the Text into the forme of a fimilitude, taking the word (Barak) in its proper fence, for lightning, thus ; The bowoffleele /hallftrike. ,im thorow, it is drawn, andcomethout ofhis bodie, andJball paf e thorow hisgall like lightning ; As if he he hadPaid, it (hall paffe fpeedily and fwiftly ; an arrowora bullet from a ftrong bow paffeth like lightning. What makes fuch fpeed as lightning?In- deed the motionofan arrow is flow& fluggifh in comparifon of lightning ; and therefore in Scripture the coming ofa thing or perfon like lightning, notes the molt fudden coming When Chrift would fcc forth the quicknefle and unexpeftedneffe of ofhis appearance, he faith; As the lightning commeth out of the Eaft and fhineth even unto the Weft, fo fhall the comingof the Son of man be (Matth. 24.27.) And thus to lay, a fwordor anarrow (hall paffe thorow the gall as lightning, r id? ga,anf ïn carrieth this fence, it fhall paffe fuddenly. The vulgar tranfla- amarirudint tion keeping it to that litterall conftruetion of the Hebrew, Jim. Vulg. ufeth the participle, and lightning in the bitternefe of it; That is, in the b'tternefs of that death which followes the wound in- flifted : Death is bitter, and thole things which havedeath in themimay well be laid to have bitternefs in them. There words being thus anenforcement of the fame thing more lively to ,defcribe the unavoti dab'e deftruftion and luddaine death of this wicked man, by Tome killing weapon, fword or baw, .or anyoflike ufe and nature, I will only give this note from it ; The wound which god gives his enemies, is an incurablewound. He that is ftricken thorow the gall, is part cure ; we had that word (lob 16.)where complaining, he faith ; He hails powred my gall on theground; that is,he bath given me a dearly wound. When a beaft is kill'd for food the gall is powred out, left that (hould imbitter the parts about ir, And if once the gall be wounded thorow, there's no remedy againft death. The Lord can fend a Judgement, which (hall be like anarrow palling thorow thegall, which all the Phyfitians in the world cannot Neale. When the people ofIfrael law their wound, they went to
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