Chap.24, /lu Expofition upon the Book( JOB. Verf. 24, 661 tie while,andare gone, orare not. The meaning of both readings rnngul:,vet is the fame. To fay, they are exaltedfor a little while andare gone, rogetlionezefin - is as much as, and no more then to lay, tney are e ralted,andwithin guto um. Pi(c. a little while are gone. Thus David fpake from his own experience concerning the profperity ofwinked men (Pfal. 37. 3 5.) 1 bave feene the wicked in great power,and fpreadirg hitnfe/f like agreen bay tree, yet he p,ffed away ; and be be was not : yea I /ought betr.,but be eould not be found. David, experience falls in fully with 7ebt after. Lion ; They are exaltedfor a little while, and aregone, or are not. Hence note. The worldlyfelicity or exaltation ofawickednear, ora wickedratan in hie worldlyfelicity and exaltation, Aidbe at if he lead nei er been. Worldlymen and worldly thing; are fcarfe any thing white they are feene, and therefore when once they difappeare and are not feen at all, is may well be îaid,They are not at all. God who is altog they itavi hle. is aneternal being, from everluflixg to ever- darling he se g a (P') 90 z )Bur all thole things which are altoge- ther viible, arealtogether vanifhing ;; They are gaping from us, while they are with us; a, id when they are gone,they are as if they had never beenwith us. And as it is with worldly things, fo with worlds} perlons, when they are gone, theya c not, as to any en- jovment, though they (hall ever be as CO punifhcment. They are ex. aired fer a 1 the while, but aregone. e.afnd brought low. That is the fecond flop ; Somemight (ay, pofiiblytheyare gone to abetter efface, then before; they were high b fore, nowhigher foe rem ve from greatneffe, ro greatneffe, from dignity, todig- nity, therefore 74 explaineth his meaning, They are gone And' broughtlow. Or degraded from their high places, They are brought low by difgraee. or into difgrace, They are brought low by poverty, or into the towel( depth of poverty. in whatfoever the wereexal- ted, they are nowmade low. Some expound it of death ; They are brtugbt low, that is, downe to thegrave, and that is low in- deed,
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