624 Chap. 24: An £xpoftion slog the Book of J OB. doe therefore reftrain the wordShoal in this place toHell, as i4 lignifies the place or (rateof the damned, which is proper onely to thole who have finned, and dye in their firmes. So the whole `ZI; terra toil i verse is thirs rendred. As dry earth and beau confume tile ¡nowoa- Qa color ab ter:, ro heft confemetbb theft that have finned. Ml that fin and turne Jumunt aquas not, 111111 be turned to hell ; But (hall hell confume them ? they invoice, lid in (hall ever be conluming,but never confumed. Hell fhtll confume femur sot qei them as to a comfortable being, but it !hall not confume them as peccavemnt. Tygnr, to a being ; they Shall be alwayes dying but never dead. Hell is the portion and all the portionofall wicked men hereafter, what ever portionofworldly profit or pleafure they have had here ; hell (hall confume them, and they (hall be confirming for ever. The 10th verfe may carry the fenceof this interpretation but it complyeth moreclearly with the former , deleribing the cala- nitous.condition of awicked man at his departure out of this world. Vert 20. Thewomb /hallforget him, the tram !fullfeedfweet- lye an him, he /hall be no more remeraabred,and wick ednefr/balt be broken a a tree, Thenumber varyes here againe, lob fpske in the plural! nutu= ber immediately before, yet here keeping to the fame fubject, he fpeakes in the fingular. Thewomb /Ballforget him. trip a e, be That is, They who loved himmolt tenderly and dearelyjhall quad inteo- forget biro. The word which we render the womb, is ofa verbe nè tenerrr- which lignifies to love, with grate* intenfeneffe and tenderetes: mè amare fig- it is applyed to the love ofman toGad, (Pjal. 18, 1.) I love "'o4t' the Lord, I love the Lord dearly with bowells ofaffe ion; and it Vim majerem is often applyed to the loveof God unto man. Some tranflate it b abet per ab here by theAbftraft ; Love, mercy, or pits, !Ball forget him. firathem.Obli- Whichmay be taken two was; es ; Firít, that thofe friends who vifcetur ejus before were pitiful! to him, (hould forget him; his lovers, and enireiatio, five acquaintance,who were dear to him evenas his bowels, they (hall r five ve q + tilo, i. e. illi forget him ; or fecondly, mercy (ballforget kits, that is,the mercy qui ewn fuavi. of God, or the Godofmercy !hall forget him, God who is all- her amabant. together mercy (hall forget him ; hell (hall confume him, and Zak!: mtsy,
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