An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…

¹Some read this Text, His bones are diminished, lessened, wasted, or broken in pieces, as if the consumption reached not only his flesh but his bones too. That's a fierce disease which at once invadeth and wasteth the bones. The word which we render to stick out, signifieth in the Syriac Idiom, the abating lessening or breaking of any thing into lesser parts or pieces. And so those words (are not seen) in the text (which according to our translation refer to the time of health, when a man is so fat and full fleshed, that his bones cannot be seen, scarcely felt, those words I say) are referred according to this translation to the time of sickness, which is supposed so to diminish and wast the bones, that by an ordinary strain of Rhetoric they are said, not to be seen. His b•••• are diminished, they are not seen. We also render this word• […] that first prophetical word concerning our restoring by Christ (Gen. 3.15.) by bruising. It (that is the woman's seed) shall bruise thy head (that is the Devils) and thou shalt bruise his heel. When bones are bruised, and as it were shuffled together, they cannot be seen in their proper places, or as once they were sixth by nature. This various reading doth not vary the general sense of the Text, but only heighten and increase it. We render fully and significantly, his bones that were not seen, stick out.

¹Some read this Text, His bones are diminished, lessened, wasted, or broken in pieces, as if the consumption reached not only his flesh but his bones too. That's a fierce disease which at once invadeth and wasteth the bones. The word which we render to stick out, signifieth in the Syriack Idiom, the abating lessening or breaking of any thing into lesser parts or pieces. And so those words (are not seen) in the text (which according to our translation refer to the time of health, when a man is so fat and full fleshed, that his bones cannot be seen, scarcely felt, those words I say) are referred according to this translation to the time of sickness, which is supposed so to diminish and wast the bones, that by an ordinary straine of Rhetorick they are said, not to be seen. His b•••• are diminished, they are not seen. We also render this word that first propheticall word concerning our restoring by Christ (