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

The word here used, to curse, springs indifferently from two roots, which yet meet and are one, in signification: Namely, to strike through or to pierce, as a man is struck through with a staff ¹or sword, or stabbed with a dagger; Thus Hab. 3. 14. Thou didst strike through with his Staves the head of the villages. And Isa. 36. 6. The piercing of a reed into the hand of him that leans upon it, is expressed by this word. So then it carries a metaphorical allusion to the effect of a curse, the curse of God always, and the curse of man upon due grounds, is as a sword or a dagger, piercing a man thorough and thorough, through both soul and body. I have cursed his habitation, that is, I have smitten his habitation quite through with a curse.

The word here used, to curse, springs indifferently from two roots, which yet meet and are one, in signification: Namely, to strike through or to pierce, as a man is struck through with a staffe ¹or sword, or stabd with a dagger; Thus Hab. 3. 14. Thou didst strike through with his Staves the head of the villages. And Isa. 36. 6. The piercing of a reed into the hand of him that leans upon it, is exprest by this word. So then it carries a metaphoricall allusion to the effect of a curse, the curse of God alwayes, and the curse of man upon due grounds, is as a sword or a dagger, piercing a man thorough and thorough, through both soule and body. I have cursed his habitation, that is, I have smitten his habitation quite through with a curse.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] deducitur, vel à [Greek or Hebrew] vel à [Greek or Hebrew] fodit, perfodit, terrebravit, & per me taphoram maledixit, execratus est; est metaphora translata ab his qui gladio aut pugione aliquem-transverberant, tanquam si aliquis Dei aut hominis malediction trajiceretur. Cartw. in