A30574:1365
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
When they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
These words have very great obscurity in the first view of them,1 and I find a mighty deal of puzzling among Interpreters about them. The difficulty is in the word that is ⟨p. 428⟩here translated Furrows, 2the same letters of the word, take away the points of the Hebrew, and they may be for these two sins, or their two eyes, there's a little difference in the Vau and the Jod which are much like one another. And in all these three ways according to to the signification of the word,3 Either Furrows, Sins, or Eyes, the sense may go reasonable well. As thus:
These words have very great obscurity in the first view of them,1 and I find a mighty deal of puzling among Interpreters about them. The difficulty is in the word that is ⟨p. 428⟩here translated Furrows, 2the same letters of the word, take away the points of the Hebrew, and they may be for these two sins, or their two eyes, there's a little difference in the Vau and the Jod which are much like one another. And in all these three waies according to to the signification of the word,3 Either Furrows, Sins, or Eyes, the sense may go reasonable well. As thus: