An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

The second effect is shaking of the bones, It made all my bones ¹to shake; as if he had said, this fear stayed not in the flesh, but descended, and entered into my bones. I was deeply affected with it. We translate; Which made all my bones to shake; the word in the Hebrew is, it made the multitude of my bones, or, my bones how many soever they are, to shake. The Hebrews have this rule, that the major part is usually taken for the whole, therefore the multitude of his bones, or many of his bones, is well translated, all his bones. And the Verb which we render shake, is of the same root with fear, fear came upon me; so that according to the letter we may read it thus, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to fear. A bone is in it self senseless, and therefore fearless; but to show how extreme and deep this fear was, he saith, it made fear enter into that, which is without fear, and hath of it self no feeling; it made my very bones to fear, as well as my ⟨p. 94⟩heart to fear, or my flesh to tremble. Habakkuk in the third of his Prophecy, being before God in his prayer-visions, describes the rapture of his spirit, by this and other symptoms upon his body, When I heard, my belly trembled, my lips quivered at the voice, rottenness entered into my bones, v. 16.

The second effect is shaking of the bones, It made all my bones ¹to shake; as if he had said, this fear stayed not in the flesh, but descended, and entred into my bones. I was deeply affected with it. We translate; Which made all my bones to shake; the word in the Hebrew is, it made the multitude of my bones, or, my bones how many soever they are, to shake. The Hebrews have this rule, that the major part is usually taken for the whole, therefore the multude of his bones, or many of his bones, is well translated, all his bones. And the Verb which we render shake, is of the same root with fear, fear came upon me; so that according to the letter we may read it thus, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to fear. A bone is in it self senselesse, and therefore fearlesse; but to shew how extream and deep this fear was, he saith, it made fear enter into that, which is without fear, and hath of it self no feeling; it made my very bones to fear, as well as my ⟨p. 94⟩