An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Now this blessed effect of his trouble is set down:

1. Negatively, That we might not trust in our selves. 2. Positively, But in God. Described by a suitable property, Who raiseth the dead.

1. Negatively, That we might not trust in our selves. 2. Positively, But in God. Described by a sutable property, Who raiseth the dead.

Let us begin with the aggravation; his trouble was so great, That he had received the sentence of death in himself. This is more than the clause in the precedent verse, for there it was [Greek or Hebrew], He was in such a doubt and perplexity about his life, that he did not see any way to evade; but here he is positive, he comes now to make resolute conclusions, He must die, He had received the sentence of ⟨p. 293⟩death. The Greek word is [Greek or Hebrew], used here in this place only in the New Testament. The Verb from whence it cometh [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], Budeus showeth to have two more eminent significations; the one is, to separate and secerne one thing from another; in which sense I do not observe it used in the New Testament. It useth [Greek or Hebrew] in that sense, even as humane Authors also do most frequently. 1 Cor. 1. 15. The spiritual man judgeth all things, by searching and judging he cometh to discern the truth from error. The other signification is to answer, in which sense it is always used in the New Testament. Favorinus in his Lexicon maketh this difference between [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew]. The former is a bare simple Answer made to any Question; the later is an Answer by way of defence against some accusation. The proper word for an Answer is [Greek or Hebrew], as