220 ScHEMES OF SENTENCES A ND AMPLIFICATIONS. Book f . Ear, and theJe~inK of the Eye are tranfpofed ; fo the Deflrutlion of Altars and the Ki!l– tng of the Prophets, are tranfpofed, r Kings xix. J.4. with Rom. xi. 3· There 1s fomeumes a Change of the Words themfdves, and fometimes of theirAccidents: The Change of Words themfelves happens, ( z.) From the Diverfity of readino- in the Hebrew T ext, efpc~ially when the ~oration· is from the Septuagint ; who havi;g made ufe of B1bles not poiAted, dtd frequently read and expound it otherwife than it ts in the Hebrew ; Gen.xlvii. 31. And l fraeUowed himfelfupon tbe Head 'i'l'tlt::iilofthe Bed (he wor~ fhipped or adored his Lord God, !o as tha\ he bowed his Body to his Bed's Head) but the Septuagint have it XIXI -areoo-EY.VV'I']O"EV Icrex'))A f7rl TO axpor~ T))~ eet.{3dl:l IXVT3 *And Ifrael worjhipped upon the End or Top of his Rod or Staff; for they read it as if it had been i1'tJ1)'i1 which fignifies a Rod or Staff, the Difference being only in the PointJ. This Vedion the Apoftle exatl:ly follows, Heb. xi. 21. And whereas there is a different Reading even in the Greek, fame Copies having a:JTI:l ejus, of his; fame aOn:, fuus, his : There arifes a double Interpretation here, viz. That Jacob through Age being in Bed, leaned upon his Staff, and thanked God for the Promife of a Sepulchre with his Fathers; hence fay fome, it flwuld be thus, Et inclinavit fe baculo fuo innixus; And he bowed himftlj, leaning upon his Staff, or that he bowed himfelf to the Scepter which Jofeph held, and honored his Son in his Office ; that that Dream might be fulfilled which Jofepb had of the Obeifance of the Sun and Moon, mentioned Gen. xxxvii. 9· which the Vulgate Verfion, and that of Erafim<s will have rendered, And he adored, leaning •n the Top of his Rod, &c. Another Example you have, Pfal. xl. 7· Mine Ears haft thou opened; of which Metaphor, fee our facred Pbilology, Part I. Chap. vii. Bu t the Septuagint render it ffWf'"' ;, ""'T"eT~<w ~·"• But a Body haft thou prepared for me ; which Verfion the Apoflle cites, I-leb. x. 5· This Reading may be explained two ways: Firfl of Chritl's human Body ; hence the Syriac elegantly tranflates it ; But with a Body haft thou clothed me: and fo the Verfion agrees excellently with the original Hebrew. Becaufe thou hall: prepared a Body for me, and haft made me an obedient Servant (which is fymbolically noted by the digging or boring of the Ears) that 1may offer the felf-fame Body as a Sa– crifice to the« tor the Sins 0f Mankind. Secondly; as a Body , in oppofition to Figures and Shadows, as Weflhemerus fays, t $acrijicium & Oblationem noluijli,. id eft ceremoniaJ illas V. T. repudiafti, fed corpus aptafti mihi, &c. that is, Sacrifice and Offering thou wouldefl not; that is, thou haft abrogated. the Ceremonies of the Old Teflament, but thou haft prfJ!ared a Body for me ; that is, the Truth, of which thofe Sacrifices were only Shadows ; a Figure thou wouldeft no longer, the '[imc coming wherein the Body, that >s, the very Thing itfe/f, and '.Truth was to be made manifeft, Col. ii. 9· 17. Hunnius in his Commentfays, 'That thefeWordsfromtheGreek Tranftation are by a very good Reafon retained, becaufe that Body provided or fitted for Chrijl, or taken in the l11carnation, is to be oppofed (as a Thi11g adumbrated, and the true propitiatory Sacrifice) to the Rites of the L aw, which contained only a Shadow, not tht' abfolute Image or Subftance ofThings. 2. EEwyn<Ew<, Exegetically, that is, by Way of Il!ation or Inference, as Pfal.lxv·iii. 18. Thou baft received Gifts among Men (lo the Hebrew) which Eph. iv. 8. is thus quoted x.x1 edw:~.E J'or"'IX1et "TO I~ et..v3-pw?Tor;, Andgave Gifts unto Jvlen; both are true, and the one is the Confequence of the other, or an lllation from it. !fa. i. 9· Except the Lord of Hojls bad left us a, Remnant (1111!1 reliquum) this R om. ix. 29. is called ff>T<ep.rx., Seed: So from the Septuagint, !fa. x. 22. If thy People be as the Sand of the Sea, &c. lt IS fJ1d, Rom.. ix.. 27- Si fuerit "'e'91"' Tw' "'~' r.e~""' If the Number of the Children of lfrael, &c. lt.is faid, lfa. xxviii. 16. He that believeth Jhallnot make bafte, which Rom. ix. 27. is quoted, WboJoever believeth on him, ou :~.a1et9(:uv.9-))trEn:u, and 1 Pet. ii. 6. ap-1! x.:tTetJ<:"uvSn,. jha/1 not blujh, be ajhamed, or be co1tjounded: The latter follows from. the fotmer ; he that believes makes no hafte, but patiently expects the fulfilhng of D1vme Promzfes; and therefore he will certainly partake of them; whence it follows, that he has no caufe t<> be afhamed of his Hope, &c. Amos v. 27. ! will caufe J'OU to go into Captivity beyond Damafcus: This is quoted, Atts vii. 43· thus, I will carry you away beyond Babylon. Both were fulfilled: For the Ifraelites were not only carried away into SJria only, whofc chief or metropohran City Damafcus 1s, but alfo b.eyond Baby/on, znto Perjia and CPjpta, as appears, Efd. viii. rJ. j • Et adoravit ljrae/ fuper fummhatem virg~ (u.e, Hd1. xi. 2 1 ~ Scrip. p. 148. t Wefthemerus Lili, de Tropis Sac-. Micab
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