An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…

Further we may take notice, that the Hebrews express any dead body or carcass by the same word; the dead body of the ⟨p. 422⟩oldest man is called Mappeleth, from the same root and reason too in part, from which they denominate, an untimely birth, that never lived a day. When the old man dies, he falls as well as the newly conceived embryon; The one falls off as a blossom from the tree, the other as the fruitfully ripe, which (if you pull it not off) must fall off.¹ The Greek word for a dead body, and the Latin, have the same reason of their derivation, namely from falling: So saith Job, I had been as one of these untimely births, that fall to the earth before their time.

Further we may take notice, that the Hebrewes expresse any dead body or carkasse by the same word; the dead body of the ⟨p. 422⟩oldest man is called Mappeleth, from the same roote and reason too in part, from which they denominate, an untimely birth, that never lived a day. When the old man dies, he falls as well as the newly conceived embryon; The one falls off as a blossome from the tree, the other as the fruitfully ripe, which (if you pull it not off) must fall off.¹ The Greeke word for a dead body, and the Latine, have the same reason of their derivation, namely from falling: So saith Job, I had been as one of these untimely births, that fall to the earth before their time.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew], Cadaver a cadendo.〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Cadaver a cadendo.