John Trapp on Job 26:13

Verſe 13. By his Spirit he hath garniſhed the heavens] Spiritu ejus coeli ſunt ipſa pul[illegible: 3 letters]cudo. By his Spirit the heavens are beauty it ſelf, ſo Vatablus. rendreth it. That Three [illegible: 2 letters] One, and One in Three, wrought in the Creation, ſee Pſal. 33.6.Adoravit, decoravit, pulchrcfecit. Hins [non-Latin text not transcribed]. By the Word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the hoſte of them by the breath of his mouth Here Jehovah, his Word and his Spirit, are noted to be the Maker of the world, ſo Gen. 1. The Heathens had ſome blind notions hereof, as appeareth by Plutark, who reporteth that in Thebe a Town of Egypt, they worſhipped a God whom they acknowledged to be immortal; but how painted they him?Plut. de Ifid. & Ofirid. Var. dere ruſt. lib. 2. c. 1. In the likeneſſe of a man blowing an egg out of his mouth; to ſignifie, that he made the round world by the Spirit of his mouth. Upon the heavens eſpecially, God hath beſtowed a great deal of skill and workmanſhip, as appeareth, Heb. 11 10. and Pſal. 8.3. where heaven is called, The work of Gods fingers; a curious divine work: a Metaphor from them that make Tapeſtry. Garniſhed it is with Stars, as a Palace is with ſtately Pictures, beſides the inward beauty which is unconceivable. There is ſomething of a Saphir in the Hebrew word here rendred Garniſhed, and Revel. 21. ſearch is made through all. the bowels of the earth to find out all the precious Treaſures that could be had. Gold, Pearles, and precious Stones of all ſorts, and what can theſe ſerve to? only to ſhadow out the glory of the walls of the new Jeruſalem, and the gates and to pave the ſtreets of the City? See alſo Iſai. 54.11, 12.

His hand [illegible: 1 word] formed the crooked Serpent] Enixe eſt, peperit, hath [illegible: 2 letters]ough[illegible: 1 letter] forth as by birth, hath formed the moſt deformed and dread[illegible: 3 letters]. Creature in the earth Or thoſe flaming Dragons flying in the Aire (Meteors [illegible: 1 letter] mean;) Or the Conſtellation in heaven called the Dragon, betwixt the two Beares, and not far from the North-Pole (Eſt hos ſane maximum, & maxime conſpicuum in coelo fidus, &c.) Or laſtly, thoſe Sea-Dragons the Whales, which Mercer thinketh moſt likely to be here meant; and compareth Iſai. 27.1. Pſal. 104.26, Job. 40.20. Neither need we wonder, ſaith he, that the beginning of the verſe is of heaven, and the end of the ſea: for Job would ſhew and ſet forth two admirable works of God, in two extremes of the world viz. in heaven above, and in the waters under the earth. his Power and Wiſdome ſhineth every where in the Creatures, neither can a [illegible: 1 word] eaſily ſook beſides a miracle. Job therefore inſiſteth not long upon particulars, but as one loſt in the labyrinth of Admiration at ſo great things, he [illegible: 1 word] ſhuts up