Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole.

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Title: Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole.
Author: Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.
Publication: London :: Printed by John Richardson, for Thomas Parkhurst, Dorman Newman, Jonathan Robinson, Bradbazon Ailmer, Thomas Cockeril, and Benjamin Alsop,; M.DC.LXXXIII [1683]
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TETH.

65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.

66 Teach me ‖ 1.1 good judgment h 1.2 and know∣ledge i 1.3: for I have believed thy command∣ments k 1.4.

67 * 1.5 Before I was afflicted I went astray l 1.6: but now have I kept thy word.

68 Thou art good m 1.7, and dost good n 1.8: teach me thy statutes o 1.9.

69 The proud have † 1.10 forged a lie p 1.11 against me: but I will keep thy precepts q 1.12 with my whole heart.

70 Their heart is as fat as grease r 1.13: but I de∣light in thy law s 1.14.

71 It is good t 1.15 for me that I have been afflict∣ed, that I might learn thy statutes t 1.16.

72 * 1.17 The law of thy mouth is better unto me u 1.18, than thousands of gold and silver.

Notes

‖ 1.1

〈◊〉〈◊〉, goodness, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉. So

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h 1.2

Whereby I may rightly discern between truth and fals∣hood, good or evil, between the mind of God, and my own or others inventions; that so I may be kept from those mi∣stakes and errours in which many are involved, that I may truly judge what thy Law requires or permits, and what it forbids. Heb. the goodness of taste, an experimental sence and relish of Divine things. Comp. Psal. 34. 9.

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i 1.3

A spiri∣tual and experimental knowledge. And judgment or taste and knowledge may, by an useful figure called Hendiadys, be put for judicious or solid or practical knowledge.

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k 1.4

I have believed the Divine authority of them, and the truth and certainty of those promises and threatnings which thou hast annexed to them.

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* 1.5

Ver. 71. and 75.

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l 1.6

As men generally do in their prosperity. See Deut. 32. 15. Psal. 73. 4, 5, 6, &c. Prov. 1. 32. Ier. 22. 21.

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m 1.7

Gracious and bountiful in thy nature.

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n 1.8

To all men, both good and bad, Mat. 5. 45. and in all things, yea even when thou afflictest.

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o 1.9

Which is the good that I desire above all things.

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† 1.10

Heb. sewed a lye upon me.

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p 1.11

A slander, charging me with hypocrisie towards God, and rebellion against my Prince.

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q 1.12

My practice shall con∣fute their calumnies.

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r 1.13

The sence is, either 1. they are stupid and insensible and past feeling, not affected either with the terrours or comforts of Gods word. So the like phrase is used Isa. 6. 10. comp. with Iob. 12. 40. or, 2. they prosper exceedingly, and are even glutted with the wealth and comforts of this life.

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s 1.14

But I do not envy them their jollity, and I have as much delight in Gods Law, as they have in worldly things.

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t 1.15

Necessary and greatly beneficial.

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t 1.16

He repeats what in effect he said before, v. 67. partly to intimate the certainty and importance of this truth, and partly because it is a great Paradox to worldly men, who generally esteem afflictions to be evil, yea the worst of evils.

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* 1.17

Psal. 19. 10. Prov. 8. 11.

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u 1.18

Not onely thy promises, but even thy precepts, which are so unpleasant and hard to ungodly men, to me they are more desirable and more needful and profitable, because they do not onely give me abundant satisfaction and comfort in this life, but also they conduct me with safety and delight unto that eternal and most blessed life, where gold and silver bear no price.

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