A view of the threats and punishments recorded in the Scriptures, alphabetically composed with some briefe observations upon severall texts / by Zachary Bogan ...

Such as doe not Honour them.

Have cause to feare Shortnesse of life. Be∣cause it is said, Honour thy father and thy mo∣ther that thy daies may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, Ex: 20. 12. I say, shortnesse of life, simply, because it is usu∣ally so expounded, otherwise I should say, short injoyment of their inheritances, which is no reason they should enjoy, who will not honour those from whom they have them. Indeed I rather thinke that in these words is promised (that which is promised also in other places to other things upon the keep∣ing of the command), not so much living long

as living long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. In that good good Land, (for so the Septuagint translate,* 1.1 and so it is o∣therwise called) out of which, on the con∣trary, they are every where threatned to be cast* 1.2 out, and carried away by captivity if they kept not the cōmandments. As for liv∣ing long only, a promise of that, is annexed on∣ly to Letting the damme goe, when they rob'd a bird's nest, ch. 22. 7. And Dying in a pol∣luted land, though they lived never so long, was a punishment, Amos 7. 17.

I placed Not-Honouring, after not-Obeying, because I take it to be lesse: as I take Honou∣ring to be more then Obeying (So farre am I from taking it for no more then it is com∣monly made to be, viz: honouring with Cap and Knee forsooth; which they think to be enough without doing any thing, when they are bid) viz: yeelding them help, and support,* 1.3 and indeavoring to reward them with acts of piety. Reward them, I say; for so the word in the Hebrew for honour, will sig∣nifie; as well as to honour; according* 1.4b 1.5 to the use of the Greeke word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,

Tim. 5. 3. and v. 17. Act 28. 10. The Jewes* 1.6 have a saying, What honour is to bee given to parents? To give them meat, and drinke, & to cloath them and cover them.

Notes

• * 1.1

  a Deut. 1. 25, 35. &c.
• * 1.2

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.3

  And to perish frō off the good land, Deut: 11. 17▪
• * 1.4

  Such as Aeneas gave to his decrepit fa∣ther An∣chises, whō he carried upon his back (at the destruction of Troy) and is therefore called Pius Aeneas by the Poet, in honour and commendation, especially of this act of his Aristotle saith, the you••g storke will doe the like to the old.
• b 1.5

  Beza upon 1 Tim: 5. 17. honoris enim appellatione jam dixi, pium omne officium, ac subsidium Hebraeorum more significari. See Jer. 30. 19. &c.
• * 1.6

  Buxtorf. in Florileg.