...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,...

...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,...

...had gotten much ; E 26 If 1 beheld the sun when it shiued, or the moon walking in brightness ; о ¿7 by Cummings, Hilliard, and Crocker & Brewster ta be punished by the judge: for I should have deuicd the God tliat û above. /i 29 If I rejoiced at...

...sinned, or tlie Moon \vallung in brightness, and my lieart hath been secreily enticed, or my month hail kissed my hand, this also were an iniquity to be punished by the Judge, tor I should bay* cWi-eil the God that is above." By the enticing of his heart, Job meant the sin of...

...I rejoiced because my wealth teas great, and be$ Hcb. found cause mine hand had § gotten much ; 26 If I beheld || the sun when it shined, or the moon walking *»« brightness; 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or fray mouth hath kissed my hand : 28...

...my confidence; if I rejoiced, because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much : if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...; for I should have denied the God that is above." (Job xxxi. 24—28.) We have here the closest connexion between covetousness and idolatry. The two...

...mentioned as an expression of religious adoration, employed by idolaters towards the starry firmament. " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...for I should have denied the "God that is above." The practice probably originated in an idea that such a gesture was significant of a wish on the part...

...period. Job vindicates himself from all suspicion of idolatry by the most solemn asseverations : — " If I beheld the Sun when it shined, or the Moon walking...judge; for I should have denied the God that is above." (Job xxxi. 26 — 28) From this passage Dr. Hales argues, that Zabianism was at that period punishable...

...males. Great difficulties, however, remain, even if the longer time be adopted. Job xxxi. 26, 27. " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand, this were an iniquity for the judge." " In a fragment of a homily composed by S. Schenouti," says M. Chatnpollion,...

...diligent reading and meditation to an enquiry after the Truth only. Thus Job says, (c. xxxi, 26, 27,) " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand :" which is figuratively spoken of that caution and hesitancy which ought ever to be exercised in doubtful...