An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

The word which we translate plunge, signifies a dipping or immersion,¹ rather to die or stain, then to cleanse, Ezek. 23.15.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Tinxit, intinxit ita lavit ut res non mundetur, sed tantum attingant humorem.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Tinxit, intinxit ita lavit ut res non mundetur, sed tantum attingant humorem.

There are two interpretations of these words, Thou shalt plunge me in the ditch.

They may be understood either, first thus, that, God would adjudge him sinful, notwithstanding all his purifyings: and so it answereth the expression of the later clause of the former verse; As if he had said, Though I make my self as clean as clean can be, and thereupon judge my self never so clean, yet thou mayest account me unclean, yea the more I labour to justify my self in my cleanness, the more unclean mayest thou judge me to be; Yet, Thou wilt plunge me in the ditch; ¹For we are to understand the words, Thou wilt plunge me; not as of that which the Lord would do, but as of that which the Lord might justly do. As if he had said, Thou mightest have greater cause to plunge me in the ditch, when I am so fine and clean in mine own eyes, then before. When I think I have washed my self as white as snow, thou mayest look upon me, as drawn through a dirty channel, or as wallowed in the mire. After all my cleansing and rinsing, and purifying, thy pure