chap. 23. o/In Expoftion upon the B000( of J op. var. 3. 3 is weepetthou ? whom feekeft thou ? SheToppling him to be the G,arn diner, faid, Sir, if thouhave borne him hence, tell one where thou haft laidhim, She never names Chrift, but only faith, If thou have bornehim hence, sec. becaufe her heart was full of Chrift,the thoughthis heart was full ofhim too,and that heunderflood her well enough whom the meant, though the laid not whom (he meant. Thus in the prefent text, ?di was to God at that timetas Mary to Chrift, at a Joffe for him,not knowing where to finde him, God was as it were removed from him, as Chrift was rifen from the Sepulchre;Therefore hecomplainingly and affeIinnate- ly er;quires O that Iknew where I might find him ! My foule is a thirli forGod, my heart pants after him, O that I knew where Imight findehim ! TheHebrew word fignifieth to finde, by going out to meet a verbum m U man, or (as we fay) to light uponhim. As Ahab laid to EI:Ï:thgi cath=béo (r Kings z r. 2o.) Haft thoufound ( or met) me O mine enemy ? q+vemquam ved and he arfn erect, f havefound (or met) thee. So the word is oied a1'cui obvium (2 Kings lo. 13,) 7ehu met with the Brethren ofAbaziah Kingferi. ofyudah;In the Margin we fay, ?ehufound theBrethren ofba- ziah, that is he met them upon the way, for he went out to meet them. Read alfo (i Sam. i o. 3.) As if the fence were thus gi- ven ; 0 that Iknew where I might finde him ! that is, whither I might gee tomeet him, though I fhould tam finde him by accident, or (as we fay) Rumble upon him ; I would goe out, I would tra- vell, and take paines upon hopes tomeet him. Secondly, That word lignifies fo to finde as to take hold and apprehend, to take faft holdofa thing ; and then, o thrt I might finde him, is, O that Imight lay holden him ; if I knew where I might have him, I would lay fail hold on him, and cleave cloole to him. So the word is ufed (Efay ro. io )A; my hand hzthfound thekingdomes ofthe Idolls,and whofegraven Images didexcell them ofYereoalern and Samaria. Thus fpake the proud Aff rian, my band bathfound rhem s Why, the Kingdoms ofthe Heathen were not in a Corner, that he had need to fearch after thern,hedid not make a new difcovery of thofe kingdomes, They were nor, terra incognita, an unknown or a newfound land ; that's not the mean- ing; but when he faith, my handpathfound them, the fence is, I have laid holdon them, andceized them to myown ufe, I have ad- S f z ded
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