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a To att and fight © againſt you, as he is ſaid !'ofit fil, when he doth forbca: t» att. 6 Where ke fought againſt the Philiſtines 2 Sam. 5: 20, c Where he fought againit Ho Canaanites, Joſ: -0. 10, &c and afrerwards againſt the Philiftines, 1Chron 4” 16 d The execution of h's Judgment againſt rael, which he calleth his ffrange work, to in-imate, hither 1 That God would puniſh themnot with ordinary puniſhments ; but in a moſt dreadfuland ſingular. and extraordinary m-nner ; ſuch a Judgment being called a marvelous word, I/a:29: * 4: although the Hebrew word there uſed, be not the ſame with this, but of a much differing ſignification : Or rather 2. That this work ot br:nging total and irrecoverable Deſtru&ion upon Jrael, was contrary to the benignity of his own Nature, and to the uſual way of dealing with his people, whom he uſed and delighted toprotett, and ſpare, and bleſs 3 and whom, even when he is angry with them, and puniſheth them, he handleth more gently, than he doth other perſ ns, in Judgm-nt remembsing Mercy to them, as was noted, Ja; 27- 7, 8: ſee alſo Chap: 26: Ir.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers e, leſt your bands be made ſtrong f : for ] have heard*fromthe LORD GOD of hoſts a conſumption, even determined
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e For your own ſakes do not make a mock of Gods Word and Threatnings, 2s. you uſe to dv. f Leſt thereby you make the Judgments of God, which are oft compared to band, as Pſal: 66: 11: and 73: 4. and elſewhere, more ſure and unavoidable, and more ſevere and terrible, as bandsare when they are tied faſter, and more ſtrongly upon a priſoner. g God hath aſſured me, That he will utterly root out, and deſtroy the people of rel; as indeed he did in Hezekiah's Reign. $
223 Give ye ear, and hear my voice hear my ſpeech þ.
hb Obſerve what I ſay, and do youjudge if it be not reaſonable.
| 24 Doth the plowman plow all day to ſow ;? doth he open & and break the clods of his ground /?
i; The Plowman doth not ſpendall his time in plowing the Ground, in order to the Sowing it, or, as it follows, in opening it, and breaking its Clods ; but he hath ſeveral times for ſeveral works, a time for plowing, and atimefor ſowing and harrowing, and a time for Reaping, and a time for tlireſhing or beating, and bruſing the Corn for his own uſe. Which Witdhm God hath pur into him. This is the Sum of the ſimilitude propounded here, and inthe fol- lowing Verſes. The deſign and meaning whereof ſeems tobe this, to teach them, That God had his times and ſeaſons for ſeveral works, and that the methods of his providence were various at ſeveral times, and towards ſeveral perſins or people ; and therefore that thoſe ſcolfing Jſraelites were guilty ot great Folly, in flattering themſelves, and deſpiſing Gods Thieatnings, becauſe of Gods long Patie::ce towards them, and becauſe of their preſent impunity and
roſperity ; f-r God would certainly and ſpeed:ly take a time to
hreih, and break them with his Judgments, as at preſent he plowed and Harrowed then, and ſo prepared them for itby his threatnings. k Un ierſtand, al day, or continually, out of the foregoing Clauſe, { Which they uſed to do with a kind of Harrow, or other proper Inſtrument. See Jer. 4. 3+ Hoſ. 10. 11, 12.
25 Whenhe hath made plain the face thereofm, doth he not caſt abroad the firches, and ſcatter che cummin, | and caſt in|| the principal wheat », and the appointed | barley o, and the || rie in their F place p ?
m By breaking the Clods, which made it ragged and uneven. n Either 1. The Wheat, which is the principal or chief of all theſe Grains: Or, 2. The beſt Wheat. whi-h he p:udently chuſerh for Seed. o Thar proportion of Barley which he appointed. Or, as others, the marked Barley ; or, the choiſe Barlzy, which they laid aſide in a Sack for Sced : and therefore ſet aſide with a peculiar Mark upon ir. p Heb in his Border ; each Seed in a ſeveraland proper place.
26 || For his God doth inſtrukt him to diſcretion,
and doth teach him q.
q Thz ſenſe of the Words thus rendred is this, All this he per- formeth by thit diſcretion, which God hath pur into him : and therefore be aſſured, That God will order all his Afffairs with Judgment, and will in due ſeaſon execute the Puniſhments which now he theatens, and will perfe& his own Works. But the words by ſome, are rendred otherwiſe, 41d he beatetht out ( as this word may be rendred, 1 Kings 12. 11. Prov. 19. 18. and 29. 17 ) in ſuch ſort, as hu God doth teach him, in a diſcreet manner, which being generally mentioned here, is particulariy deſcribed in the following Verſe. |
27 For the fitches are not threſhed with a threſhing
inſtrument r, neither is a cart-wheel s turned about upon the cummin': but the fitches are beaten out with
a ſtaff, and the cummin with a rod ?.
r Which then and there was made like a Sled ſhod with Iron, which was drawn by Men or Beaſts. over the Sheafs of Corn, to bruiſe chem ind bear the Grain out of them. 5 A lefler and lower Wheel than 4 Cart-wheel, but of the ſame form, upon waich prernry the threſhing Inſtrument was drawn. # As being unable to
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28 Bread-cory is bruiſed s ; becauſe x he will not ever be threſhing it, nor break it y with the wheel of his cart, nor b:uiſe it with bis horlemen z. _ |