SECTION XXIV. By the Positive Degree only. GEN. ix. 24. jp, his young (youngest) son. x. 21. The brother of Japhet, 7, the eldest. Numb. xxxv. 25. Unto the death of 1926 1927, facerdos magnus; h. e. maximus et fummus. 1 Sam. xvi. II. There remains yet OP, parvum; i.e. the youngest. xvii. 14. David was jo, parvum; i. e. the youngest; and the three For great and little, ufed 17, magnos; i, e. eldest. for greatest and leaft, fee alfo 1 Sam. v. 9; xxx. 2; Gen. xix. 11; Esther i 20; Jonah iii. 5, &c. Deut. vii. 21; x. 17. A mighty God, and terrible; i. e. Almighty, and most to be feared. Nehem. i. 5; iv. 14. The great and terrible God; i.e. the greatest and most to be feared. Pf. cxi. 3. His (God's) work is honourable and glorious; . e. moft honourable and most glorious. Matt. xxii. 36. Which is μeyan, the great (greatest) commandment? Matt. xxii. 38. This is the first and μɛyaλn, great, (greatest) commandment. Luke i. 32. He shall be μeyas, great, and fhall be called the Son of the Moft High: fee fection i. See more inftances, Acts viii. 10; Heb. viii. 11; iv. 14; x. 21; xiii. 20; Matt. v. 19; xx. 26; Luke ix. 48, &c. SECTION XXV. By a Term less forcible. 1 Sam. xii. 21. Turn not afide to vain (things, or idols) which profit not; i. e. are most pernicious. Prov. xxiv. 23. It is not good to have refpect of perfons in judgment; i. e. it is very unjust. Comp. Levit. xix. 15; Eccles. v. 8. xviii. 5. 7, it is not good; i. e. it is very unjuft to accept the perfon of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment. Ezek. xviii. 18. He hath done that which s is not good; i. e. very unjust, or very wicked. Pf. xxxvi. 3. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit; he hath left off to be wife and to do good. The firft clause explains the fecond. 4. He devifeth mischief upon his bed; he fetteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil. The first clause explains the two last. Eccles. viii. 13. - 210), but it shall not be well with the wicked; i. e. they fhall be punifhed: fee ver. 11. FINIS. Printed by Richard Cruttwell, St. James's-ftrect, Bath. SECTION XXVI. By adding Death, or the Shadow of Death. JUDG. xvi. 16. When she preffed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his foul was vexed unto death, i. e. exceedingly vexed, he told her, &c. Job xii. 22. He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the fhadow of death, . A Hebrew parallelifm. Darkness, an abstract substantive, and the fhadow of death, denote the greatest obfcurity. Job xxiv. 17. The morning is to them as the shadow of death; if one know them, they are in the terrors of the fhadow of death, the greatest terrors. See Pfa. lv. 4. 7, i. e. Job xxviii. 3. He fearcheth-the ftones of darknefs and the shadow of death, darkest reccffes. See ver. 5 to 9. hy, i. e. the Pfa. lv. 4. My heart is fore pained within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me, i. e. extreme terror and anguish. The first clause explains the fecond. Pfa. cxvi. 3. The forrows of death compaffed me, and the pains, ade, inferni, of the unseen ftate gat hold upon me; I found trouble and forrow, i. e. exquifite tribulation. The laft claufe explains the two preceding ones. See Sect. xix. Ifai. ix. 2; Matt. iv. 16; Luke i. 79. The people that walked in darknefs, have feen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the fhadow of death , upon them hath the light shined. A Hebrew parallelifm. ,צלמות upon Jerem. xiii. 16. Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he caufe darknefs, and before your feet stumble the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, hy, and make it grofs darkness. Here, the fhadow of death, and grofs darkness, are fynonymous. Amos v. 8. And turneth the fhadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark צלמות with night. Jehovah is his name. Shadow of death, and dark with night, are fynonymous. Jonah iv. 9. I do well to be angry, even unto death, 112-Ty, sws Favaly, Sept. i. e. in the highest degree. Matt. xxvi. 38; Mark xiv. 34. My foul is excceding forrowful, even unto death, sws Javaje; i. e. in extreme agony. FINIS. Printed by Richard Cruttwell, St. James's-Street, Bath. |