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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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 eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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, 1651
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 12 › Verse 7: VER. 7.
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.
The word that is here translated a Merchant, it signifieth a Canaanite, and may be translated, if you would 1translate it according to the very letter of the word, He is a Canaanite, for the same word that signifies a Canaanite signifies a Merchant in the Hebrew tongue. You have the like in other places of Scripture, Job, 41. 6. Shall they part him among the Merchants, among the Canaanites, so is the word in the Hebrew: and in Prov. 31. 24. She delivereth Girdles to the Merchants, the word is to the Canaanites. Now the reason why that a Merchant, and a Canaanite hath the same name in Scripture, it is, because the Country of Canaan was much given to Merchandise, and indeed much to deceit. As the Mathematicians were called Chaldeans from the Country because the Country was so 2full of Mathematicians; so Arabia, Robbers and Thieves, were called by the name of Arabians because that it was so full of them; and so because Canaan had so many Merchants therefore it hath the denomination, A Canaanite, and a Merchant.
The word that is here translated a Merchant, it signifieth a Cananite, and may be translated, if you would 1translate it according to the very letter of the word, He is a Cananite, for the same word that signifies a Cananite signifies a Merchant in the Hebrew tongue. You have the like in other places of Scripture, Job, 41. 6. Shall they part him among the Merchants, among the Cananites, so is the word in the Hebrew: and in Prov. 31. 24. She delivereth Girdles to the Merchants, the word is to the Cananites. Now the reason why that a Merchant, and a Cananite hath the same name in Scripture, it is, because the Country of Canaan was much given to Merchandize, and indeed much to deceipt. As the Mathematicions were cal'd Caldeans from the Country because the Country was so 2