...worship may justly be divided. Concerning the former of these, Job, who lived about AM 2600, says, " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...; for I should have denied the God that is above." As to the latter, Euhemerus, in the account he wrote on the gods, shows that they were only men. There...

...extensive. This divine Writer* says, chap. xxxi. 20 — 28, If I beheld the sun, when it shined, of the moon, walking in brightness ; and my heart hath...: for I should have denied the God that is above. Job probably lived between I600 and 1 700 years before Christ; or about three hundred and fifty years...

...order to express his not having fallen into idolatry, very elegantly says, If I beheld the sun while it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand, &.c. (Job xxxi. 26, 27.) ; for to kiss and to worship are synonymous terms in Scripture, as appears...

...the same way, the ancient idolaters worshipped their distant or unseen deities. " If," said Job, " I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand, this also were an iniquity to be punished...

...hyperhole. And radiant moon to whom iht nations bate And lift their Handt in homage. o " If I heheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; and my heart hath heen secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand," &e.— Job zzxi. 26, 37. I By Nisrock, and...

...the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven, Dent. iv. 19. This also wer« an iniquity to be punished by the judge ; for I should have denied toe God that ii above, Job red. 28. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon...

...we find in the early period. in which Job lived, that these were recognised as objects of worship. " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...judge, for I should have denied the God that is above *." The splendour and usefulness of the sun and moon led the Chaldeans and Assyrians, among whom their...

...we find in the early period in which Job lived, that these were recognised as objects of worship. " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...judge, for I should have denied the God that is above *." The splendour and usefulness of the sun and moon led the Chaldeans and Assyrians, among whom their...

...hand to the sun, in token of veneration. Accordingly, Job, in allusion to this last kind, says,8 " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...the judge ; for I should have denied the God that » Wisdom xiii. 14, 15. . b Ezek. xvi. 17, 18. Baruch vi. 9—15, 27, 30. c Ezek. viii. 6, 11, 15;...

...introduced into the text. According to this sense of the passage, Job also speaks, chap. xxxi. 27, 28, " If my mouth hath kissed my hand. This also were an iniquity...; for I should have denied the God that is above." By which scriptural trope is signified, as Gregory interprets it, a man that trusts in his own works,...