234 Chap. 28. An Expo?tion Capon the Book. of . o . Verf. 8 bis fpring; M if he had Paid, while there men are digging in the earth after Silver they meet with a fpring, which is no foonet opened, ht the water gufheth out like a flood upon the work- men. Spring,' are the original of ffreames, and upon the opening of the Earth the fiream flowes out from its fpring. Secondly, Others expound and read the words as making the flimi/foacrola, flood it felf to be the inhabitant, forced out of its ancient dwel- ï. e. alvea fuo ling by theft new guefis, greedily coveting Silver and Gold. The ordinario,qui flood break! out from that place where it did formerly inhabit or accolebatur, doll, or from that fubterranean channel in which it abode, and praceps in cu,- through which it was conveighed. VVater may bePaid to dwell'in iculosemetaandl- at, or inhabit the place of its abode ; and thus the. words are to. beun- 1 jun. derfiood by a Synec1idochc of the thing containing, for that which Cum di cedit loth contain it, or of the inhabitant for the place inhabited ; the abeoloco flood breaketh out from the inhabitant , that is, from the fpring, 4,i accoleba' or under - ground channel , which it did inhabit. And fo the mean- tur,geferenr ni ins is this, while the miner is at work, and labours in the Earth 9133rt1malweum a 9 fuumperruru-to make hispaffage to ,his precious treafure and rich Gemms, ratefundi illiur by and by be canesnear to fume fpring of water (for there are per quam (Was under - ground waters as well as above-ground waters, he comes bitur fub ter- near a fpring) and touching upon it , the water gufheth out im- ram. Pilca b Dumfcir it mediately and-forcibly. This experiment is very frequent among faxa, eccopro- thofe that work inmines, whether of Silver, or Brafs, or Iron, sinusgurgien 8cc. proximo ei loco Thirdly, The text is well rendred, the flood breaketh out, that exundar.Bold. tkereis no inhabitant, or, that there it noabiding. The meaning is, 41, accola, d.that when theyare at work in the mines, the flood 'breaking our exeolocoubi chey can aabide there no longer, the labourers are put from their Brant alcrole,et place and work) every man f-sifts for himfelf and gets away . as qui eum locum fall- as he can, when-he feeth the danger. The Silver and precious habitarunt, ita things they would fain have, but the water rifino up aoainff rnonfrtaccola them, as it were to defend the treafure againfi there invaders, «tinge pelean. tley fee there's no prefent contending, and fo give it over for that air eteffedefr- time. They who continue long working under ground, may Nut accoia. be reckoned as dwellers there; And when they are forced to re- tc. move and quit their habitation, becaufe of the breaking forth of there waxers, we may fay there isnoinbabitant. But what wants- are theft P,. Ewen
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