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A27999	A paraphrase upon the books of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon with arguments to each chapter and annotations thereupon / by Symon Patrick.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1700 (1700)	Wing B2643; ESTC R29894	268,301	432

feet was discerned which were wont to be set with Gemms as we learn from many Authors I shall name none but the Book of Judith because what Greek or Roman Writers say about their own Shooes is not material where Sandals are mentioned as a part of the bravery wherein she set forth her self to deceive Holofernes X. 4. And with these she is said in her Song to have ravished his eyes XVI 9. See also III. Isai 18. Now the Feet not being here considered as naked in all reason we ought not to expound the next Words of the naked Thighs the discovery of which had been immodest but of the clothing of them round about For so that Word we translate Joints is expounded by others the circuit or as the LXX their whole proportion or model which was as fine as the Ornaments that adorned them So Chelaim signifies which R. Solomon here observes is an Arabick Word denoting not Jewels as we translate it but the fine attire and trimming wherewith Women deck themselves to set off their beauty Which agrees with what follows The work of the hands of a cunning Workman Where Workman also signifies not any Artificer but a Goldsmith who as Bochart hath observed made Wires Laces Wreaths Rings and such like little Ornaments of Gold and Silver as Women used The Chaldee Paraphrase applies all this to the peoples going up three times a year to the publick Feasts as R. Solomon before-named expounds also that place in LII Isai 7. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet c. Which with more reason others apply to their return into their own Country out of Captivity and the Christian Writers apply to the Apostles going through the World to preach the Gospel Whose stedfastness herein may be also here represented though I see not why it may not as well be applied to Christians going cheerfully to worship God in their publick Assemblies b V. 2. The Garments I doubt not of these Parts are still described in this Verse For what resemblance hath the Belly it self of any person which it had not been seemly neither to describe unto an heap of Wheat set with Lilies And they seem to me to have had in their eyes that Apparel of wrought Gold mentioned XLV Psal 13. and represent that part of it which covered the Belly to be of raised or embossed Work resembling an heap of Wheat By which it is possible may be meant many Sheaves of Wheat embroidered round about as the Kings Daughters raiment was XLV Psal 14. with Flowers especially with Lilies And then this was a Figure wherein Harvest was represented which is no unlikely conjecture for anciently nothing was more honourable than to follow Tillage or Pasturage From whence it is that we find in the latter end of Homer's 18th Iliad that the device contrived by Vulcan in Achilles's Shield were Reapers cutting down ripe Corn and the King himself standing in a furrow and providing a Dinner for them Now in the very midst of this Work I conceive there was a Fountain which I take to be the meaning of the first Words of the Verse Thy Navel is a round Goblet which wanteth not Liquor that is a great Bowl or Basin was wrought in the Center of the Embroidery full of Water which ran continually from above into it Or a Conduit running with several sorts of Liquors into a great Bowl Unto which the Word hammazog importing a mixture seems to incline the sense The Word agan which properly signifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the LXX translate it a great Bowl or Basin is used by the Chaldee Paraphrast for a receptacle of Water in Fountains or in Ditches As in IV. Judg. 11. where the Valley or Plain of Agannaja of Bowls which was in Kedesh is interpreted by Kimchi the Field in which were many Pits or Trenches like to Bowls full of Water This seems to be a plainer Interpretation than that of Zanchez who fansies this to have been some Jewel that hung down from her Girdle upon the Navel which was of this form round like the Moon And the Chaldee Paraphrast understood it to be of this Figure when he applies it to the Head of their School who shone in the knowledge of the Law like the Circle of the Moon and seventy Wise men round about him like a Heap of Wheat What is the mystical meaning of this Hieroglyphick Vesture as it may be called is very hard to say It may be applied to the two Sacraments which the Church administers to her Children the Font in Baptism being represented by the former and the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by the other part of this Figure c V. 3. This Verse hath been explained before IV. 5. I only observe that the Chaldee Paraphrast applies these two Breasts to the two Messiahs whom they foolishly expect the Son of David and the Son of Ephraim who shall be like Moses and Aaron c. Which I mention because it shows that the Jews have an Opinion that the Messiah is discoursed of in this Book and that these Words are to be applied to the Leaders of the Church such as Moses and Aaron Of which see in the place before-named d The Tower to which the Neck is here compared in all probability is the same with that IV. 4. where it is called the Tower of David and here the Tower of Ivory because of its smoothness and whiteness And the Phrase is varied perhaps to express an encrease of Beauty for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we meet withal in Anacreon in a description of extraordinary handsomeness In like manner the Eyes are here compared to Pools for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the shining moisture of the eyes is commended as very beautiful by many Authors Particularly by Plutarch who commends this in Pompey and in Alexander And by Philostratus in his Epistles very frequently Thou seemest to me saith he Epist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to carry Water as it were from the Fountain of thy eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefo reto be one of the Nymphs Among Pools those fair ones at Heshbon were much celebrated which were in the very entrance of the City hard by the Gate called Bath-rabbim because it opened towards the way that led to Rabbah the Metropolis of the Children of Ammon which made the more people pass in and out at it For Heshbon we find in XXI Numb 24 25 c. was the principal City of Sihon whose Country bordered upon the Ammonites and it fell to the share of the Gadites who desired this Country because it abounded with Pasturage and was excellently watered there being many Rivulets and Brooks in its Neighbourhood from whence the Pools of Heshbon were supplied Which were remarkable for their purity and serenity or quietness and therefore fitter to represent the composed setled eyes of a modest Virgin Whose gravity and Majesty I suppose is also set forth in the next Words by comparing her Nose to that

was the Breast-plate it self which indeed was very shining for they translate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which shows they meant some covering of the Belly which was hollow as the Breast-plate was Which I doubt not is the covering of Sapphires here mentioned it being set as you read with twelve large Precious Stones wherein were engraven the names of the twelve Children of Israel And was the most precious part of all the High Priest's habit and therefore more commonly called by the Jews an Ornament than a Garment or any part of his Vesture the whole of which was contrived for Glory and for Beauty XXVIII Exod. 40. i. e. that God might be served most magnificently p V. 15. Next in order follows the description of the Thighs that is of the Garments upon the Thighs which were the very first that the High Priest put on when he went about to clothe himself for his Ministry And are here said to be made of Schesch which is a Word common to fine Linen and to pure white Marble so the LXX twice translate it Parian Marble I. Esth 6. 2 Chron XXIX 2. which the Breeches of the Priest resembled being made of Byssus or pure fine Linen a thing of great price in those Countries as appears both by Pliny and Pausanias The latter of which Authors in his Eliaca mentions this among the rare things which were worthy of admiration in that Country and saith It was not inferiour to the Byssus of the Hebrews Who were ordered to make this part of the Priest's Garments of twined fine Linen XXXIX Exod. 28. which rendred them the more substantial and made them sit the fuller and stiffer like Pillars For the Hebrews say they were made of six-thread Byssus and that they came down to the Knees where they were not gathered at the bottom but sat open Below which Breeches came down the holy Meil or Robe upon the Skirts whereof hung round about Bells made of pure Gold XXVIII Exod. 34. Which may possibly be the Basis of fine Gold here mentioned to which the Femoralia or Garments on the Thighs reached Some refer all this only to his stately gate and Princely motion others to his strength and firmness which lies much in the Thighs and his ability to march against his Enemies and pursue them And then the Sockets of fine Gold are his Sandals bound upon his feet with golden Ribbands or something of that nature The Reader may chuse which he thinks most probable for the explication of the first Part of this Verse His legs or thighs rather are as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine Gold Now if my conjecture be allowed then the latter part of the Verse will not be hard to explain For this and all the rest of his habit being contrived for Beauty and Glory as was said before from XXVIII Exod. 40. it made the High Priest appear with an unusual Majesty the riches of these Vestments being not easily to be valued And so his countenance or rather his aspect his whole appearance as the Hebrew Word may signifie was as stately as Lebanon Which was one of the goodliest Sites in those Countries both for Cedars and many other things especially after Solomon had made his Garden there of which we read in the foregoing Chapter ver 15 16. Unto which lovely Forest and Garden the appearance of the High Priest may be the better compared because there were Flowers as well as Pomegranates if we may believe Philo in his third Book of the Life of Moses wrought in the bottom of the holy Robe Which the LXX also affirm in express Words that there was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a flowry Work as well as Pomegranates and Bells in the Hem of the Meil XXVIII Exod. 34. And indeed the Pomegranates being made of Wool of divers colours they themselves might look like divers sorts of Flowers And besides this it is to be observed that several other parts of the High Priest's habit are peculiarly commanded to be made of a Work called Choscheb which we translate cunning work Thus the Ephod is ordered to be wrought XXVIII Exod. 6. and the Girdle of it ver 8. and the Breast plate v. 15. Which some translate artificial others ingenious work and all agree to have consisted in certain beautiful Figures of Flowers and Animals and in variety of colours The Girdle moreover is ordered to be made of a Work called rokem which we translate needle-work ver 39. because it is thought not to have differed from the former save only in this that the other things were only woven curiously but this also curiously wrought with the Needle The Jews give another difference that this was wrought so that the Figures appeared on both sides the other only on one About which I shall not trouble my self but only take notice that Josephus in his third Book of Antiquities Chap. 8. explains this Work thus Flowers were woven in this Girdle with Scarlet Purple Blue c. And if Flowers and as others say Animals then in all probability Trees also were wrought in these Priestly Vestures which made the fuller representation of a Forest Among which that of Lebanon was the principal and indeed the most beautiful place in all those Countries which made the Prophet express the Glory of the Church in these Words The Glory of Lebanon shall be given to it XXXV Isai 2. see also XIV Hos 5 6 7. Some think that hereby only the tallness of his Stature is denoted which was always lookt upon as a Princely thing as it was in Saul As for mystical applications of these two Verses there are none to be sought for if I have given the true sense of them but such as relate to the excellency of Christ's everlasting Priesthood and its preheminence above the other as much as the Cedar excells all the Trees of the Forest. q V. 16. There is little difficulty here For mouth Hebrew palate which is within the mouth can signifie nothing but either his words which come from thence or his breath And words being mentioned before v. 13. the latter is probably here intended Which is said to be sweetness nay sweetnesses denoting the perfect soundness of the internal parts as the foregoing description sets forth the excellent shape and stately Vesture of the outward It is applied by Interpreters to the purity of Christ's affections and passions but may be as well to his breathing upon his Apostles when He bid them receive the Holy Ghost Which concluded in a manner what He did upon Earth as it doth his description in this place For she finding his Praises to exceed all her thoughts summs up all in a breath and comprehends his whole Character in this that He is all over lovely attracting all mens affections not only those that saw Him but those that heard of Him too CHAP. VI. ARGUMENT In the foregoing description the Spouse expressed such an unfeigned affection to Him which she