Chap. 29, An Expofstion upoxthe Bookof J o n. Verf. 18. 567 slidquiet conditionmight be dii}urbed before hedyed,even while hewas Paying, I /hall dye in my nefi, Andmultiply my ¿ayes as the fund. That's the fecond point of this hope.M fob thought whenever hedyed, he Ihould dye in aprofperous condition ; fo he thought it would be long before he thould dye, I /hall multiply my dales as thefand.There are twoether readings of this part of the verte; Etpcut palma I (hall but name them, and pitch upon our own. Firfi, Tome ten- multiplicaba der the words thus ; I (hall multiply my ¿ayes as the Palm tree ; dies. Yule. and the reafon is, bccaufe the Palm tree endures very long t fo tt irié amdtu- that tomultiplyour dayes as the Palm tree, is tohave very many sic, rruncas daÿes.And fo the Septuagint explains it ; As the body of the Palette, multo Palm tree, I /hall li'v along time. It is faid (Pfal. 92. 12.) The vivam tempore; righteotts (hall floarifh like the Palm tree ; his flourifhing in fptri- Sept, , surds, is there aimed at, he doth fo alfo ip temporals. Secondly, Others read, I faid I (hall multiply my ¿ayes as the Phanix. Tertullian in his book of therefurre6tion, tranflates that (Pfal.92. it.) of the Phanix, The righteous fhall grow up as the ) Phanix. In the Greek tongue, one word fignifies both a Pia- Sicu Phenix, nix and a Paim tree. And as the Palm tree, fo the Phanix is put multiplicabo fymbolically tonote a long life ; Some afcribing five hundred, dies mean. Ti- fome fix hundred, force a thoufand, yea force fourteen hundred gee: Cajer. ears to the lifeof the - Pbanix. And as the Phanix lives very E;lgenusquod- y y damPalmæ,gtod long ; fo the Phanix (as force report) -dying in her nef,, another cum emortuum rifeth up out of her afhes,which is conceived to be the reafon fuerit exfeipfo why Come of the Ancients (as I (hall touch further in the dole of renafcitur, ande this context) tranflate here, d(hall multiply my dayes as thePha- putar datumno- nix ; as if Job hád faid,I fhalldye in my neff, and riling from thence rrenlinjus,i a- 04 the kaniz I all multiply m dayes. But I (hallno Ray u ;- vr. PPinius, !. P P1 y y' Y ( 13. c. 4. oneither ofthefe readings;for -lroughthe Palm tree among the ApudGrttcos trees of the earth, and the Phanix among the birds of the'ayr, 'ii `e6' ro i are long lived, and fo both tran(lations accommodate and illu- muse efi,Pine. (irarc,the general fence and fcope of the text, yet neither of them Phn;o efipm- have any altisnce,that I can find, with-the Original word of the bolumvitte Ion- text, b} us properly tranllated fwd. nd Atherefore I (hail infifi game.Vivero only upon our own reading. 66o onnos c/fe- rit.Plinius lib. 7. cap.47. Vivere500 Annos fcribit dmbrefrusdlb,.defiderefur,Er quaver egreditur corningfaculi.. cervus. Alipedemcervum ter vincit corvuset ilium, Multipjicat novies Phenics reparabilie ales., atufon. I (halt
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