3/22/2023 0 Comments Translate tuu non pecunia habes26.17.18.19 Hieron ad Celant Sola apud Deum libertas est non seruire peccatis summa apud Deum nobilitas est clarum esse virtutibus Nazianzen Orat. the Sonnes of Heber possessed from Cophes a riuer of India vnto the border of Euphrates and Assyria Therfore it is here interpreted of all the Sonnes beyond the riuer But the coniecture is fetched too farre to come home in season Heber and all his sonnes And why of Heber for so was he also of Elam and Ashur and Lud and Aram and all the nations that came of them Surelie because the wisedome of God willing to commend Sem for the blessing vpon Sem which Noah had prophesied could find no such argument of commendation in any of these as was easie in Heber to be found which was sincere piety and zealous perseuerance in true religion which the Lord regardeth g Deut. 3.29 signifieth a house Beth gnebar beyond Iordane for as Iosephus testifieth Antiq. Orde verborum est Sem âââus est Heber etiam ipsi id est ipsi Sem natus est Heber qui Sem pater est omnium filiorum Sem ergo Patriarcham intelligi ãâã ââs omnium qui de stirpe eius exorti sunt quos commemoraturus est siue sint nepotes siue abnopoâes pronepotes deinceps indidem exorti Heber that is of f Some interpret it thus the Father of all the Sonnes beyond namely Euphrates not taking the word Heber to be a proper name but as it signifieth tram vltra traâectum vel vlteriorem partem beyond or on the further side like as the worde Beth bara Ioh. Merito thesauro cuipiam confertur diuinarum scripturarum lectio nam sicut ex illo quisquis vel paruam micam capere valeat multas sibi parat diuitias ita in sacra scriptura etiam in breui dictione variarum sententiarum vim ineffabiles diuitias inuenire licet mine of treasure hid He was father of all the sonnes of e August libr. 9.5 whom are the fathers and of whom came Iesus Christ concerning the flesh therefore in the beginning c After the same manner in disgrace of Cham the Scripture calleth him the Father of Canaan of his historie these words are placed as a preface to commend his person and the blessings which the Lord God of Sem bestowed vpon him One would thinke it at the first a speech absurd that Sem should be called the father of all the sonnes of Heber For if Heber were of Sems posteritie how could Sem but be the ancetor of all his progenie But herein is a d Chrysostom Hom. Caeptum esse dicit à minimo gradatim generationum istarum in maximo finitam orationem Sed ex falsis praemissis non sequitur conclusio in the historie of the house of Sem as by which onlie true religion was professed in succeeding ages of b Rom. For what cause is Sem called the father of all the sonnes of Heber and what is to be esteemed of the eldership or seniority of Sem Iapheth concerning whom there is difference in translations and interpreters BEcause the Scripture purposeth froÌ hence forth to abide a August de ciu Dei lib. Psal 73.18.19.20 although for a time they flourish with prosperitie yet they soone decay and are in the wrath of God consumed Question 3. Psalm 73.7 no discerning in the present estate of temporall things betweene the righteous and the wicked 7. Prouoketh them with his goodnes to repentance 6.
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