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And of the shadow of death, without any order, or, The shadow of death, and not orders.

¹The word which we translate order, is frequent in the Rabbins: the holy Text hath it only in this place, and here in the plural number, A land of darkness, and the shadow of death, and without any orders, a land unordered. There's no government, no method in the grave. And if it hath no order, then it hath nothing in it but confusion, nothing but disorder. That the grave, or the state of death is without any order, may be understood two ways,

¹The word which we translate order, is frequent in the Rabbins: the holy Text hath it only in this place, and here in the plurall number, A land of darknesse, and the shadow of death, and without any orders, a land unordered. Ther's no government, no method in the grave. And if it hath no order, then it hath nothing in it but confusion, nothing but disorder. That the grave, or the state of death is without any order, may be understood two waies,

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Et non ordines.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Et non ordines.

¹First, Without order, because it hath no changes, or vicissitudes in it, there is no difference in the grave between night and day, winter and summer, hot and cold, wet and dry, between the rising and setting of the Sun: This is the order which God hath set in nature; and when the flood had put all things into a kind of confusion, God promised, That seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night should not cease, that is, there should be an everlasting order continued in the creature. The dead know none of those changes and vicissitudes; as much of the vanity, so some of the comforts of this life consist in changes; but all is alike in death.