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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![( 5 1 ) a Self-denial in the Children of I s n a e l to forbear from a Difh which is fit for Hogs only; a tolerable good Palate was fufficient to make the Law, thoJ Jacob never had had the Misfortune to be wounded. ’Tis more probable, that this muft be un- derftood, in general, of Organs of Motion, that is of the Mufcles with their Sinews and Tendons, in fhort, of the Fleih about the Thigh. The laid Word to be confider’d is which, in feveral Places, is alfo writ no doubt by the Carelefsnefs of the Copifts: It is in our Tranflation rendred by Shrinking, without the lea ft Authority. The Septuagint have made it fynonymous to yph uiing the fame Verb hagtcijcrs, which is proper enough. The fir ft and literal Meaning is to lend out upon Ufury, Exod. xxii. 25. Dent. xxiv. 10, it. 2 Kings iv, 1, 7. Pfal. cix. 11. E£ xxiv. 2.—1. 1 •—■ jer. xv. 10. From this Signification another is derived; for as Extortioners arefelfifh, covetous, trick¬ ing, unmerciful, and like Leeches lucking the Blood and Subftance of the Poor and Needy ; fo from thence this Verb has been me¬ taphorically taken for to opprefs, to vex, to life roughly, and with Barbarities, to deftroy and ruin, as you may ice by the following Examples. Their Might hath failed, [is ruin’d] Jer. li. 20.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
