An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

That the word de in Bede is significative, and imports sufficiency, is the opinion of many interpreters, and that it is of the same sense in this Text, as in that (Isa. 40.16.) Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. Thus here, at the sufficiency of the trumpet, that is, when the trumpet sounds sufficiently, abundantly, or clearly; or (as our old English translation hath it) when the trumpets make most noise, he saith, ha, ha.

There are others of note, who judge that ([Greek or Hebrew]) de is only a syllabical addition of no signification, or adding nothing to the Preposition (ב) Be; ¹and so render the words only thus: At the sound of the trumpet; or as we, Among the trumpets, he saith, ha, ha. And that ([Greek or Hebrew]) De, is only expletive, not significative, and so that word ([Greek or Hebrew]) Bede is no more than the Preposition (ב) Be, put alone, some would confirm by other Texts of Scripture, where it is conceived to be so used (Hab. 2.13.) Behold, is it not of the Lord that the people shall labour ([Greek or Hebrew]) in the fire; and the people shall weary themselves ([Greek or Hebrew]) for vanity? ²These words are sound also (Jer. 51.58.) in both which (saith a learned Author) that ([Greek or Hebrew]) De cannot signifie sufficiency, both the sense of the place shows, and almost all interpreters agree. And this also may be further confirmed by a like use of the same word, as it is put after ב Judg. 6.5. and after מ Isa. 66.23. The Learned ⟨p. 459⟩