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

But more distinctly, what is the search and what the depth? The depth, is the sea, where 'tis deepest, so deep that no bottom can be found by sounding. The word rendered here search, notes the last o• utmost of any thing, and so the deepest of the depth, which possibly may be called the search of the depth, because how much or how long soever it is searched for, it cannot be found out. Mr. Broughton renders it, The border of the sea; the Vulgar Latin, The last or utmost of the depth. Hast thou walked there? We walk on dry land and in pleasant fields:¹ Some artificial parts of the earth are by way of eminence called walks, because they are purposely fitted by art to walk in. But who can walk in the searches of the depth? Are there any under-water-walks?

But more distinctly, what is the search and what the depth? The depth, is the sea, where 'tis deepest, so deep that no bottom can be found by sounding. The word rendred here search, notes the last o• utmost of any thing, and so the deepest of the depth, which possibly may be called the search of the depth, because how much or how long soever it is searched for, it cannot be found out. Mr. Broughton renders it, The border of the sea; the Vulgar Latine, The last or utmost of the depth. Hast thou walked there? We walk on dry land and in pleasant fields:¹ Some artificial parts of the earth are by way of eminence called walks, because they are purposely fitted by art to walk in. But who can walk in the searches of the depth? Are there any under-water-walkes?

1. 1Et in novissimis abyssi deambulasti Vulg. i. e. in infimis ejus partibus. Aquin.

¹To clear these words a little further, we may consider two other readings or translations of them.