An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

It is observed by Plutarch, that the Egyptian Priests gave their Apis (a Deity which they worshipped in the form of an Ox) the water of a Pit, or Well, not the water of Nilus to drink; the reason was (not as some assign it, because they thought those waters were profaned by the Crocodile, for the Egyptians had that River in high veneration, but) because the waters of Nilus, were fattening, nourishing, waters; therefore their Apis, whom they adored as a God, and from whom they expected continual help, must not drink of it, least the grossness of his flesh should disable him for their assistance. Fat corpulent men are, in common experience, unwieldy, sleepy, and (comparatively) unfit for action. It was a custom, as my Author reports, among the ancient Spaniards and Gauls, to keep a constant measure, which if a Woman (she not being with Child) did exceed in the compass of her waste, she fell under disgrace, and lost much of her reputation, by having got so much of fat and flesh about her: And doubtless it had somewhat of disrepute in it, in Jobs time, else Eliphaz (a man of experience) had not given this as a piece of a wicked mans description. He covereth his face with fatness.

It is observed by Plutarch, that the Aegyptian Priests gave their Apis (a Deity which they worshipped in the forme of an Oxe) the water of a Pit, or Well, not the water of Nilus to drinke; the reason was (not as some assigne it, because they thought those waters were prophaned by the Crocodile, for the Aegyptians had that River in high veneration, but) because the waters of Nilus, were fatning, nourishing, waters; therefore their Apis, whom they adored as a God, and from whom they expected continuall helpe, must not drinke of it, least the grosnesse of his flesh should disable him for their assistance. Fat corpulent men are, in common experience, unweildy, sleepy, and (comparatively) unfit for action. It was a custome, as my Author reports, among the ancient Spaniards and Gaules, to keep a constant measure, which if a Woman (shee not being with Childe) did exceed in the compasse of her waste, she fell under disgrace, and lost much of her reputation, by having got so much of fat and flesh about her: And doubtlesse it had somewhat of disrepute in it, in Jobs time, else Eliphaz (a man of experience) had not given this as a peice of a wicked mans description. He covereth his face with fatnesse.