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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	gape_v	open_v	scornful_a	12	3	17.1448	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35473	An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1650 (1650)	Wing C765; ESTC R17469	487,687	567

him yet Faith saw God his Redeemer in this assurance that he also should behold him with an eye of sense I shall see him with these eyes Hence Observe First That God dealeth with those whom he loveth dearely as if he hated them Secondly They whom God doth love may be under a present apprehension that God hates them I only name these points as arising from this place they have been handled Ch. 13.24 Ch. 14.13 upon those words Vntill thy wrath be past and therefore I stay not upon them here Thirdly Note God to sense doth seeme to excercise a kinde of cruelty even the cruelty of wilde Beasts towards those whom hee dearely loves What are tearing and gnashing of teeth What is the sharpening of the eye Is not any one of these much more all these in one the discovery of cruelty Job saith all this and doth not Hezekiah say as much Isa 38.13 I reckoned till morning that as a Lyon so will he breake all my bones from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me We finde God taking upon himselfe those similitudes not onely in reference to his Enemies but also to his owne people for as he deales with the wicked when they provoke him so in proportion with his owne Outward dispensations make no difference I will take vengeance I will not meet thee as a man Isa 43.3 that is I will not shew so much as any humane pitty or compassion much lesse Divine but I wil meet thee as a Beast Thus God threatned to deale with Babylon and thus he appeares to deale with Sion with the choisest Sons and Daughters of Sion And thus he professed Hos 5.14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a Lyon and as a young Lyon to the House of Judah I even I will teare and goe away I will take away and none shall reseue him Job having shewed what hard usage he had from God himselfe who appeared as an enemy proceeds now to shew what hard and course usage he had from men who were indeed his enemies into whose hands God had delivered him Vers 10. They have gaped upon me with their mouth they have smitten me upon the cheeke reproachfully they have gathered themselves together against me The person is now changed as also the number before it was He now They And who were they We have no Names to give them onely in generall These were the instruments which God let loose upon him his Freinds say some his Enemies say others Whosoever they were doubtlesse they were either downe right Enemies or Enemy like Freinds their owne behaviour speakes them so They have gaped upon me c. He varies or heightens their enemy-like behaviour by three expressions First They have gaped upon me with their mouth Secondly They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully Thirdly They have gathered themselves against me I shall open them distinctly First They have gaped upon me with their mouth Gaping with or opening the mouth implyes two things First Scorne and derision Lam. 2.16 All thine enemies have opened the mouth against thee they hisse and gnash the teeth they say we have swallowed her up certainely this is the day we looked for The Church in affliction was afflicted with scornfull gestures Secondly As gaping with the mouth notes scorne so also cruelty he that gapes at another tels him though he say nothing that he could devoure him and eate him up as we say Without Salt Such a one shewes that hee needs no Sauce Psal 22.13 They gaped upon me with their mouthes as a ravening and roaring Lyon A Lyon gapes at his prey to devour it Job often complaines both of the contempt and cruelty of many against him and their gaping upon him includes both which are also againe intimated in the next clause They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully Some render it Reproaching me they have smitten me on the cheek Smiting on the cheek is taken two wayes Literally Metaphorically What literall smiting is all know and most have felt but had Job any about him who used him thus rudely I conceive not and therefore we may understand him metaphorically So smiting on the cheek is to reproach And these words They have smitten me on the cheek reproachfully are no more nor lesse then They have reproached me To smite on the cheek is a thing so reproachfull that by an Hebraisme Percutere maxillam Hebraica locutio est quae significat gravissima contumelia aliquem afficere it signifieth to reproach Lam. 3.30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him which is expounded in the latter clause by this he is filled full with reproach The sufferings of Christ which were full of reproach are thus Prophesied I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off the haire I hid not my face from shame and spitting Isa 50.6 Christ was smitten on the face literally Matth. 26.67 Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him and others smote him with the palmes of their hands Hee was smitten also tropically being put to open shame and disgracefully dealt with That of the Apostle cleares this sense 2 Cor. 11.20 Yee suffer a man to bring you into bondage if a man devoure you if a man take of you if a man exalt himselfe if a man smite you on the face that is If he disgrace you So the Apostle expounds it Vers 21. I speake concerning reproach Paul Chap. 12. had a messenger of Satan sent to buffet him to cuffe or smite him with the fist so the word signifies what that was at least in part hee explaines Vers 10. I will therefore take pleasure in reproaches Thus the Prophet describes the dishonour which should be put upon the Judge Micah 5.1 Now gather thy selfe in Troops O daughter of Troops he hath layd seige against us they shall smite the Judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek that is The Enemy shall powre contempt upon thy Kings and Princes Cum aliquis propter gravem aliquam ignominiam pudefit licet vis omnis absit plaga verberari dicitur in maxilla Sanct. in Mic. c. 5. v. 1. in which sense they may be sayd to be smitten upon the cheek though no rod nor hand touch them And some interpret that Mat. 5.39 If any man smite thee on the right cheeke turne to him the left also not of hand but tongue smiting or of suffering reproach As if Christ had sayd If any one disgrace thee a little beare it yea though he should disgrace thee a great deale more yet beare it Smiting upon the right cheek notes a lesser injury received When a man smites another on the right cheek he smites with his left hand the left hand strikes the right cheek and the left hand is the weaker in most and gives a weaker blow If thou receive a blow on thy right cheek with the left hand turne the other and let him smite thee with