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Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 31:10

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Job31:10

10. Then let my wife grind unto another , and let others bow down upon her .

Either 1. let her be taken captive and made a slave to grind in other mens Mills; which was a sore and vile servitude, Exod. 11. 5. Iudg. 16. 21. Isa. 47. 2. Mat. 24. 41. Or rather 2. let her be defiled by another man, as the next words expound it, and as the Hebrews understand it, and as this very Phrase is used by very ancient both Greek and Latine Authors: [Of which see my Latine Synopsis on this place.] And this is to be cautiously understood, not as if Iob desired or would permit a requital in the same kind, but onely, that if in that case God should give up his Wife to such a wickedness, he should acknowledge his justice in it, and (though with abhorrency of the sin) accept of that punishment of it.

Another modest expression of a filthy action; whereby the Holy Ghost gives us a Pattern and a Precept, to avoid not only unclean actions, but also all immodest expressions.

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