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…

There is no antecedent expressed in the Hebrew. Some understand it thus, If he, that is, if the Lord, if God come to take vengeance of this man, who seems to be a tree, so highly grown, and so deeply rooted.

There is no antecedent exprest in the Hebrew. Some understand it thus, If he, that is, if the Lord, if God come to take vengeance of this man, who seems to be a tree, so highly grown, and so deeply rooted.

Secondly, we may carry on the similitude thus, If he destroy him, that is, if the Gardener or the Husbandman; if the Master or owner of that ground or place, seeing a tree thus luxuriant, growing so near the foundation of his house, and so wrapped about the place of stones, hindering the light, darkening the windows of his house; if he come to destroy or cut him down, it shall deny him.

Secondly, we may carry on the similitude thus, If he destroy him, that is, if the Gardener or the Husbandman; if the Master or owner of that ground or place, seeing a tree thus luxuriant, growing so near the foundation of his house, and so wrapped about the place of stones, hindering the light, darkning the windows of his house; if he come to destroy or cut him down, it shall deny him.

Or, thirdly, If he destroy him; that is, if the Sun destroy him: So M. Broughton translates, If the Sun root him up from his place. But can the Sun root a tree up from his place? Yes, the Sun roots up a tree, when the Sun, before which a tree flourishes a while, casts his beams so hot upon it, that it is scorched. Extreme heat draws out all the moisture of a tree and kills it. In that sense the Sun may be said to root up a tree, the Sun killing the tree, causeth it to be ⟨p. 110⟩