224 Chap. 3o. An Expofitian upon the Booite of Jo a. Verf.z4, his anger it not turned away, but his hand is firetched out )Fill.; forwhat ? ro affti&, yea, to defiroy, and cut off his own people. Thus man puts forth or layeth his hand upon man, as it feemes 7ofephs Brethren were refolved till Reuben tooke them off, ( Gene 37.22.)L.ay no band upon him, 'cis the word inchis text, ff!retch not out thy bandupon bite, that is, doe him no violence. ( Exo- dus 24. it . ) eflnd upon the Noblesof the Children of Ifrael, he layed,.r firetched not his hand, that is, God did not lay-his wrath- full hand upon them to deítroy them, but theydid eats anddrink, that is, their health and llrength was graciouflÿ continued, or they-felt no harme, notwithftanding that vifion of God; of which 7acob Tooke fpeciall notice, (&od. 32, 3o.) I have feene God,face toface,( that is I havehad aclone apparition ofGod, though in humane fhape wreftling with me) andmy life ispre- ferved. Thus wefee,That to ftretch out the hand,is taken in Scripture both in a good and in an evils fence , or that God doth fome- timesftretch ourhis'hand to helpe and deliver, as also to hurt and-deftroy. Inwhich of their two fences `lab faith here that Godwill notfiretch out his hand to thegrave, (hall be refolved in the further explication of the text. +t) ecervue,cn The word which we render grave, fignifieth an heape, becaufe maw, e;I acer- graves are covered with a rifing earth, or are headedwith gone. vas proprie la "The Latine word notes fwelling, becaufe the grave fwells upward fa pidum indige defo as,a Nape of any thing doth. To be made a heape notes utter ffus, facione unde Pro defolation, (7er. z6. 18. Mich. 1. 6. Chap. 3. 17. as alto Pfat. Inner. Mere: 79. r. ) where the holy P,ophet breakesout into this paffo- iumxíKr a to nate complaint , OGod the heathen are come into thine inheri- n sndo. tanve,thy holy Temple have they defiled; 7Thef lave laud 7erufalern on beapes ; which fome underhand thus ; theyhave made 7cruf5- lem to be nothing but graves.Such multitudes werecruelly flame and murdered, that 7erufalem was ( as it were) but one grave. It is fayd pfthe Children ofI/raci, (Numb,zr. r r.) where leve. rail of their journeyes andpitchings are reported in their pafl'age toCanaan ; They journeyedfromOboth, and pitched at ie-Aba- rim, in the wildernefe, Yvhich is before Moab, toward theSun ri- jing ;we put in the Margin, heapsof e1barim.T he word Abarim, ljgnifiesTaffengere, or Strangers,or as tome concrave and read it, the Hebrewes ; As ifthat woad did not denote (as m tt ex-
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