The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude.
- Date:
- 1732
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The firft Word which prefents itfelf is • It does not only fignify tangere to touchy but alfo to molejl, to wound, to [trike violently, as appears by Gen. xxvi. 29. Let us make a Covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched [abufed] thee. Pfal. Ixxiii. 14. For all the Day long have I been f touched] plagued, and chajlened every Morning, Ifai. liii. 4. We did ejleem him ftricken, fmitten of God and afflicted. tp, which is mandated hollow, comes next: The radical word Fj£D does nowhere in Scrip¬ ture fignify to ?nake a Cavity, a Socket, or a Hollow. If we believe the Lexicons, tis curvare, incurvare, to bend, to bow; but if we confider the Ufe that is made of it, we {hall be convinced, that the primary and di¬ rect meaning of the Word is to cajl down, to lay flat, or almofl flat, without excluding, I own, an inconfiderable bending. Wherewith Jhall I come before the Lor d, and bow [proftrace] tnyfelf before the High God? Mic. vi. 6. Now, kis well known, that amongft the oriental Nations, the Fo- fture ufed in worflhipping was to ly flat upon the Ground, and not barely to bow the Head. My Soul is bowed down, Pfal Ivii. 6. that is, dejected. Fhe L o r d raifes thofe who are bowed down [caft down] Pfal. cxlvi, 8. From](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
