A35439:1769
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…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
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.
Besides, We learn from antiquity, that they had special pits or graves for offenders, who were slain by the law (as some speak) or cut off by the hand of justice; who being enemies to humane society while they lived, were not admitted society with the bodies of honest men, when they died. The Prophet Isaiah (Chap. 14.18, 19, 20.) describing the ruin and ignominious down fall of the King of Babylon, saith, That all the Kings of the Nations, even all of them lie in glory, every one in his own house (that is, in their Fathers sepulchres) But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch: and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit. Thou shalt not be joined to them in burial.
Besides, We learn from antiquity, that they had speciall pits or graves for offenders, vvho vvere slain by the law (as some speak) or cut off by the hand of justice; who being enemies to humane society while they lived, were not admitted societie with the bodies of honest men, when they died. The Prophet Isaiah (Chap. 14.18, 19, 20.) describing the ruine and ignominious down fall of the King of Babylon, saith, That all the Kings of the Nations, even all of them lie in glory, every one in his own house (that is, in their Fathers sepulchres) But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch: and as the raiment of those that are sl•in, thrust thorow with a sword, that goe down to the stones of the pit. Thou shalt not be joined to them in buriall.
And hence, to be cast into a ditch notes any great humbling or affliction, reproach or contumely.
We may take it here in either sense, Thou wilt plunge me into filth and corruption, or show me to be filthy and corrupt, though I cleanse my self; or, Thou wilt cast me into the greatest afflictions, notwithstanding all my purifications. I shall give a note, suiting this last sense, at the close of the whole verse.