Annotations on five poetical books of the Old Testament (viz.) Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles / by Edward Leigh ...

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Title: Annotations on five poetical books of the Old Testament (viz.) Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles / by Edward Leigh ...
Author: Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
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PSAL. CXXVI.

THis Psalm was penned after their return from Captivity out of Babylon. This Psalm is divided into Halelujahs and Hosannahs, Praises and Pe∣titions.

Vers. 1. Zion] The people of God, the Ark was there placed, and there God was worshipt.

We were like them that dream.] That is, we, as it were, forgat what our state and* 1.1 condition, but lately was; as a dreamer forgets how it was with him, did not know whether it was true or no, we were so amazed with the greatness of the deli∣verance.

Dreams are 1. Things unthought of. 2. Unlaboured for. 3. Of strange things, Jacob of a ladder reaching to heaven; that a Heathen King (Cyrus) of his own accord, on a sudden should give them commission to return out of Babylon, Ezra 1. 1. See Luke 24. 41. Act. 12. 9.

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* 1.1

Sensus planus est, Postquam nos in patri∣am è Babylo∣nia Deus re∣duxit, profectò nobis videba∣mur somniare: tantum fuit, & tam in∣opinatum bonum. Dubitamus ferè de maximis gaudiis quasi quae fidem superent. Genes. 47. 26. Simeon de Muis. Videbamur nobis prae laetitiae magnitudine, non reipsa cornere eam foelicitatem, Act. ••2. 9. Bucerus. Like unto them that are restored to health. Chalam signifies convaluit, revixit, Job 39. 4. Isa. 38. 16. The same word is used of Hez. kiahs recovery Men have not their lives filled with laughier after a bodily dream, but when after sickness they are restored to health: so Cajetan and Sanctius interpret it. Vide Mayeri Philol. Sac. & Gr••tium.

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