WP pow or Food, which "they ſnatch out of the Goods or 2 NE: the ——_— of Ir)uries and gri-vaus Opprefſions. Þ Nat Labours of the iiusbandman 3 in all which they are fit Emblems of | O'ly in Deſerts or leſs inhabited places where theſe ſyrants have the theſe men. Or, theſe wild.men. For fo this word ſ1gnifies, Gen. 16, 12, | Efcater opportunity and advantage roprattice their Villanies, bur e- 25 elſe where wild aſſes. The Particle, as, is notin the Hebrew. on 18 Cities where there I> a tace of Orc: c and Government, and mn. Which is the proper Havitatien of wild Affeez, er 2. 24. If this | Gourts of Juſtice, and a multitude of P-ople to obſer+e and reftrain >< underſtood of the wild Men, he placeth the in the Deſert and 20 Actions; whereby they plainly declare that they neither tear Wilderneſs, either beca:ſe they by their Spoils and Violences have + . nor teverence Man, q Either 1. properly, their Soul ſympa- deftroved or Er,ven away the People, as 1s intimated Verſe 4. and - "_Y with the Body, and being gricved for its inſupportable m1- thereby turned populous places into Deſerts 3, or becauſe ſuch places os crycth to God and Men for help: Or rather 2. the Life os 25 have but few Houſes and Inhabitants, ( which are oft ſo cailed, as :ood ( which oft cometh under that nave ) of thoſe who are there Gen, 21. 20, 21. Joſ 15.61, 62. 1 King 2+ 34 & 9. 18: Iſa. 42 11. wounded unto Death, as this word properly fignifics, Ezeb, 30. 24; Mat. 3 1. ) are molt tit for their Robberies, n. Either 1. The Poor _ aloud unto God for vengeance.Gen. 4: 10: Rev. 6:9. 107; wheres whom they ſpoiled and drove away from their own former Habitati- pr Fas might ſcem 1n ſome ſort obliged to puniſh them, and yet he ons into Deſerts, where they hid themſelves, and wrought hard for | £14 not as the next words declare, r So the Senſe 15, Yet God doth 2 Subifience; ' Or rather 2. The Opprefſors who are more fitly com- par dre or lay to their charge this folly, or wickedneſs ; which
pared to wild atſes, and more truly (aid to ſe: k for prey, than thoſe th GCE PRREE 15s commouly . called folly; 3 e. He takes no notice of | poor oppreſſed Perſons mentioned v. 4- and 0' whom he ſpears both : e/e horrid Oppreflions, nor hears the Cries of the Oppreiled, nor LICE in th« foregoing and following Verſes. 0 4 e. To ſpoil and rob, Ara the Oppretiors, Or, Tet God ( who ſeeth and permiteth all which is their conſtant Work and Trade. p They are ſodiiigent and dere nu is or or dereth, or dath, ( for all theſe things this Hebrew induſtriou: in that work, that they will fetch Food forthem and theirs hy JPET ) nothing which 1s abſurd, or foaliſh, or unſavenry 3 7: e.doth even out of Deſert-p'aces in which the Owners can very hard!y ſub- " , © Wm this peranfſion 2nd coantvance unworthy of himſelf, or fiſt. q Or Servants; for the ward f1_nifies both Children and Servants, | WIN a wiſe aud conſiderate man cannot reliſh or approve, or which ven the miwlo Fenily. | | isnot in it ſelf righteous and reaſonavle, though we do notalwile dif- fHeb they 4G Thev r reap every ene his + corn 5 in the field 7 : cern the reaſonableneſs of it: | p wony 7 Toe Wag 13 They are of thoſe that rebel againſt the light 5 E
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| and + they g=ther the vintage of th wicked #. | 1e 11; ys bo r Either AS Poor. who are forced to ga:her in the Corn and they know nor # the ways thereof z, nor abide in the 1edze rather 2. the Oppr:fſors, of | paths thereof x.
+ +1, Grapes of their wicked Oppreſfots : Or 200k ts bo big ſpeaks, v. 4. Boy, s i- e. The Corn of the Wicked, as | it is in the next Clauſe Or, that which is not their own; as the | tioned, aud as a great aggravation or their wickedneſs, that they were Seventy, and Chi'd-e, and Vulgar Latin trauflace it, reading the | nt modett fianers which were aſhamed of their evil ways; »nd there» Hebrew as two diſtin words They reap other Mens labours, | tore fiaged in the dark, and in ſecret, as ſome whio here follow : but 2 ive In the Field of the right Owner from whom they take 1t f1nn<d impudently in the face of the Son, and in ſpight of all their He notes their great Power and Boldneſs, that they did nor come light, as well the Light of Reaſon and Conſcience, which abhors and ſuddenly and carrv away thei: Corn, whenit was laid up 'n the Barns, condemns their wicked ations, as the Light of Divine Revelation, or in heaps, but they proceeded leifurely, and ſtaid to reap the | Which was then in good meaſure imparted to the Church and People Corn, and by degrees carried it away; as it were in triumph, not of God in this time, and ſhortly after was committed to Writing 3
a'l which they ſet at defiance, finning with maniteſt contempt of
fearins any Interruption or Hindrance either from God or Man. : ; ag ED - themſei'ves : So” they promiſcuouſly robbedall, even | God, and of Men, and of their own Conſciences. # Either 1. they their own Brethrenin Tniquity 3 whereby alſo he may intimate the | do not defiie or care to know them 3 they are willingly ignorant of
righteous Judgement of Godin puniſhing one wicked Man by ano-. | them. Or 2. they do not approve. nor love, nor chooſe them as ther, and in depriving Men of thoſe Goods which they had wickedly knowing frequently fignifiesin the Scripture uſe. « 7: e Of the light gotten. Or the wicked( the Singular Number being uſed colle&ively Or 1 ſuch ways and courſes as are agreeable to the light, Or, in CN reap Pequent's rh Oppreſlors _) gather the vintage 3 his ways, i e. 'n the ways of God, who is oft underſtood 1n this > i As IN Book where he is not expreſſed: x If they do ſome good aftions,yet
3" They cauſe he naked x to lodge y without cloa- my = mo pac in well-doing they are not conſtant and fixed, thing DS, that they have no covering in the cold 4. - — Th ” . . . . o