Caryl - Houston-Packer Collection BS1415 .C37 v9

2.72, Chap. 30. An Expofition upon the Bake of J o a. Verf<29, Vex Ern The word whichwee render Dragon, fignifieth alto, a whale, none terne)î, i fo we render it (Chap. 7. r z,) Am 1a Sea; or a,Whale ? So nuncpro marina t11aC this orte word hath two great monfters in the belly of it;. bellua 'Turps- tar. Firft, The Whale, who is a water- moufter as to bignefft. Second- ly , The Dragon who is a Land. monfter as to dread fullneffe. Herewee take the word for the land moufter, I am a brother is Dragon.r, and a companion to Owlet. The fence is one in both;fome render,a companion to oftriches; The text ftridly is to the daughter ofthe Oftrich , or of the 0w/e. And hence fome underhand it of young ovules, which make a great noyfe, when the old ones are gone from them ; but it may as well be underftood of owles in General by a common He- braifme, fo the Daughter ofthe Oftrich or Owle, is the Oltrìch or the Owle her felfe. Which manner of (peaking was opened and exemplified by many Scripture- inftances at the 8th verfe of this Chapter. And though in this verfe, the word is rendred by force, Owle, by others, Oftrich ;yet we fhould rather keep to our tranflation, becaufe the Oftrich is expreffed by a diftind word at the 39th Chapter of this Booke, v. 16. And the etymological! fence of the word hereufd is applicable to the Owle rather then to the Oftrich. For it fignifieth.to make a horrid fcbriching noyfe; and to anfwer one another in it like an Eccho, as Owles ufe to Diffa efi ule?a doe. MIT a tug:;- Laftly , When 70b faith, Iam a brother to Dragons, anda 66m- 14i canto nom yaniontoOtrles wee may underhand it in one of thefe two 1.1v fags frcar {antes. interdten vo- etm lugabrem Firft Ttuís; I fit alone as they doe, Dragons are melancho- edere ut videre fy creatures, they love folitaryplaces and dtfa, and darkeft re- ef. ifa.13.22. tirements. HenceTbat ofthe Church ( 'P/al 44 t 9.) ?hough ifca. s thou, haftfore brokfn us in the place -fDragons is rt ndt by the Lbo S bpt. Septuagint, In a place un- inhabited or unit to be inhabited. Dra- gons dwell where none dwell; as they are dangerosis eeig, *boors, all men asioed them, andas they delight not i;t neiglbuur. hood, fo they avoyd all men. Nor are owles more fociable then dra- gons They (we know ) fit all day alone, end came abroad on ly in thenight, when all other birds aregone to ruoft, orare at raft,

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