398 Chap.3 I. ;In Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Vied.I O. -- -- - ---._ Yet if we confider both the antecedents and confcquentsof theft words, I conceive another fide rather intendtd which is alto followed by molt Interpreters, efpecially by the Talinudifts Fqi,pd d, or jewifhDodors,vvho generally confine in this ufe ofthe word, bt;rs lal,7'.u-- which in the received language of thole times denotes an obfcene 14i 1-hbnci ad by a modal and inoffenfive expreflion. According to this "'t""`, nill'"'Y expofition, when yob faith Let my wife grade unto another, his tuhu;fianimr i b,,emugo. meaning s plainely this Let my wife tam harlot. The Septua- gint eradiate fully to this fence, Let my wife pleafi or give con- nlaxin'è obj:4- tent to another. The vulgar Latine and Chaldee Paraphrafe yet n'm (1-*,,ent more fully and literally, Let my wife he a whore, Cr, Let my wife Dierc, die with another man. And in the Greeke tongue the tame word lignifies both toGrinde in a Mill, and to commit Adultery ; nor is the fame phrafe unufuall ingood Authors among the Latines. And whereas we render that of the Prophet 7eremie defcribing d.417't "P/ the miferies of the people of God in the Babylonith captivitie 4'1" ° ( Lam. 5. 13. ) They took theyoung men to grinde , The vulgar stir) prcear latine reads,They immodefily abufed the young men : which cleare-, n'iter: Sep. ly complyes with this latter expoficion of this fii a part of Ns Scorner aired- wifh, Let try wifegrinde unto another. And that this lhouid be 744 fituxor yzea. his meaning is more then probableby t:.e latter part of Lis with, vill;. Rea; &beat which ( and that is all I (ball fay for the expoundingof it) can cum alto kX9r haveno othermeaning, Ana let other, hew downe upon her. mea. Tarp But here a Qoeftion may arife, how yob ( without fin ) could Argd Glx(oi with inch a thing as this ; he made many imprecations, ofpcenal l'"'""qi evills upon himfelfe, , But mighe he imprecate fin. evil! or any evill isa'et, tarn no. ¡ere q,,,on acv. ,I., of fin upon another? 'might he with that his wife fhould be dif- terare. viii. loyall and become a harlot, or that others Mould ablate his wife ; qua ex Theo might he dtfire that his adultery fhould be puniflied with his trio Idyl. J' u wives adultery ? or that fhe might be Palle to his bed, if he had b' itivMal i.e. miens srere- been fo to hers ? Are there lawful! wifhes? trix vocatur. I anfwer, It is uot lawful! to acquit our felves from a charge Arenas peono. of fin, by withing that eyther our felves or others might fall into lore Vxores. fin. Therefore Firft, 70b wifhed this, not as if he defired to have flora i. Ser 1 . it fo, but to thew how farre he was from giving anycaufe why it iidoterceinibwi irtspuctcP abnft fhould be foe Secondly, hedid it to affureus howmuch he a b- pint. Vulg. bored adoltery,,feeing all men abhorre,what Lie wifht, that their yob h9c fibi non wives fhould be Adultereffes; Thirdly,this imprecationenformes imprecatur, fed that be could not only fubmit himfelfe to bodily punithment, exponit quid as
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