...fo the words ftand in connection with the former in this manner ; О that my words were written; О that they were printed in a book ; that they were graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever; namely-* (or to wit] I know that my Redeemer Hvetb, &c. He would have thcie...

...alludes unto this cuftom, in his pathetic wifh : " O that my words were written ! O that they were now printed in a book ! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever *." This covenant was alfo written by the hand of Mofes: " And the Lord faid...

...mentioned in a very remarkable pafiage of Job, xix. 23, 24, " Oh, that my words were now written ; Oh, that they were printed in a book ; that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! for I knew that my Redeemer livetb, &c." — where, what has been rendered...

...mentioned in a very remarkable paflage of Job, xix. 23, 24, " Oh, that my -words were now written ; Ob, that they were printed in a book -, that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! for I know that my Redeemer liveth, &c." — where, what has been rendered...

...refer to a very remote event. For thofe expreffions of his, Oh, that my words were now written ! Oh, that they were printed in a book ! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! will carry little or no weight along with them, if we expound them of an...

...this mode of writing, Job thus expreffed his ardent wifh: * Oh that my words * were now written! Oh that they were printed in a * book! that they were graven with an iron pen and * lead, in the rock for ever * !' The other was executed upon parchment, and fkins of beafts, prepared...

...of Job, as is intimated in thefe words, ch. xix. 23, 24. Oh that my words •were now written ; oh that they were printed in a book ; that they were graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever. Hence we read in Suetonius, that Nero made ufe of a plumbea charta, a plate...

...difdain the impertinence of criticifm which would violate it. «« Oh that my words were now written ! Uh that they were printed in a book, that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever !" Thefe words form an introduction ío iinguj'arly noble and ftriking. that...

...difdain the impertinence of crifkifm which would violate it. " Oh that my words were now written ! Oh that they were printed in a book, that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever !" Theie words form an introduction fo fingularly . Amner en a future State,...

...their private matters on fine linen and wax. The former of these customs we trace in Job's wish, 0 that my -words were now written.' O that they were printed in a book .' that they were gravenwith aniron pen and lead in the rock for ever .' There is a way of writing in the East, which...