Chap. 30. An Expotitian upon the Beoke of J o a. Vert. 3. 317 And a_grange punifhment to the workers ofiniquity. The wordpunifhment is not expreffed in the Hebrew, but fup- `0a1 plyed (to cleare the fence) by our trar,flaters. Now as De. a18ó antra. ftruction in the former part ofthis verfe feemes toRand in direcet rt®Operari)s ZnY- gxttattt- oppofition toportion in the fecond verfe. So the word here ren Er gr.ide;¢ exi died f range punifhment, or fiddly alienation, feemes to (land in town exrranie- oppofition to inheritance in the fame verfe. A ftranger doth not toil. Pifc. inherit. And alienation is eyther a violent turningofa manout ï H re/nicit of his inheritance, or a legal paffing of it from him to another. ate! `1ii f r'ern p.uanet; At the e zth verfe of the Prophecy of Obadiah , 'tis fated Thou 1Ja.;p;cír jhouldef not have looked on the dayofthy brother, in the day that he a;t r11711S h became rftranger ; or in the day of his alienation when he was ;"1"'"' thruft out of his inheritance, and ftrangers tooke poffeffion of n,n r,a,reAhr. it : or according to this rendring oflobs text, in the day of thy co.^_. brothers frange punifwent , thou fhouldeft not have looked j" 1`iJa Dt'au. upon him re ) 5 g yo 1cin I e or infultingly, but when ftrange evills e4 " "a`" oní vz! ír, gust. and troubles did befall him ( which we render fully, in the day a:it enaruY ef_ that he becamea f ranger) thou oughteft to have pitied andpray- ed for him. Mr. Broughton traaflates this place in yob , neere in fence to that in Obadiah, Andbe not ill doers rid away ? That is, are they not drixen out or banifhed out of houfe and home ? According to which reading their alienation or being made $rangers is their particular punifhment; But according to ours their punifhment in general!, whatfoever itis, is a ftrarge one. Is there not a_grange punifhment ? (Come render a mwnfroue pu- ni/hment ) to the workers ofiniguity ?, This ftrangeneffe of their punifhment, may be underftood two wages. Firft As intimating fuch apunilhment, as C d doth not u. fully inflict upon any:That is ftrange to us thatis feldome fence, or done. Hence obferve. godpunifheth fame wicked men, in unheard of and unujuali wages. As the corruptions of men fometines bring forth new and ftrange birthsof tin fuch as eyther to the matter or manner, haveey titernot at allor,Vtk y rarely been brought forth or com- mitted,.
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