This is exactly from Scripture. Pet. ep. 2. iii, 10. τοιχεία ΛΥΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ. and y. II. τέτων εν πάντων ΛΥΟΜΕΝΩΝ. Seeing then that all thefe things fhall be DISSOLVED. and . 12. Ougavol συρόμενοι ΛΥΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ καὶ τοιχεῖα καυσέμενα ΤΗKETAI. The heavens being on fire fhall be DISSOLVED, and the elements fhall melt with fervent beat. Ifaiah xxxiv, 4. And all the host of heaven fhall be DISSOLVED. ΤΑΚΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ πᾶσαι αἱ δυνάμεις τῶν ἐρανῶν. LXX. The scripture uses frequently HAND, for power and might and the HAND OF GOD fignifies his power and providence. In K. Henry V. A& I. "Let us deliver "Our puiffance into the hand of God." 66 In "bring me Caefar, and you shall see how I preferve my tranquillity: but when he, with these, comes like A DESCENDED "GOD in thunder and lightening, and I too fear fuch things as thefe; what do I, but, like a fugitive flave, recognise my mafter?" Nor can I pass over another of the like nature in Homer. II. '. 668. Jupiter speaks to Apollo, 66 Ειδ ̓ ἄΓε νῦν, φίλε Φοῖβε, κελαινεφὲς αἷμα κάθηρον Eia age nunc, dilecte Phaebe, nigro fanguine purga In Macbeth, A& II. "In the great hand of God I ftand." And in other paffages. Pindar Ol. 10. 25. has i. e. Suváme, according to the interpretation of the scholiaft. And This is the Latin tranflation: but profectus, is jejune and poor, in comparison to the force of the Greek; EAONN, defcending as a god. 12 This word in Scripture is applied to Beasts. Gen ix, 5. "And furely your blood of your lives will I require: at "the HAND of every beast will I require it; and at the "hand of man, at the hand of every man's brother will I "require the life of man." Pfalm xxii, 20. "Deliver 66 my foul from the fword: my darling from the power [Heb. from THE HAND] of the dog." Spencer. B. I. C. 3. ft. 20. "Him booteth not refift, nor fuccour call The word is here used in its primary fignification, for from the old Latin, hende, i. e. capio, unde prebendo, &c, comes And thus the verse, as it seems to me, in Homer Il. . fhould be understood. Οὐδ' ὅγε πρὶν λοιμαῖο βαρείας ΧΕΙΡΑΣ ἀφέξει. Nor will be reftrain the violent force and strength of the plague before, &c. the common translation is, Neque bic prius à pefte graves manus abftinebit, which has neither the fenfe nor beauty of the former interpretation. In the Tempest, A&t I. "To run upon the sharp wind of the north." I would rather read,. "To ride upon the harp wind of the north.” band. And hence HENT Shakefp. in Measure for Meafure. A&t IV. "The generous and gravest Citizens "Have HENT the gates, and very near upon i. e. have laid hold on, feiz'd, &c. Hence an adroit perfon who can turn his hand to every thing, is call'd a bendy or bandy man. Chaucer in the Miller's tale 278. p. 26. edit. Urry. So lovith the this Hende Nicholas, That Abfolon may blow the buk'is horne, r. hendy Nicholas. So So before Ariel fpeaking to Profpero, "All hail, great master! grave Sir, hail! I come "To answer thy best pleasure: Be't to fly; The fame image " he applies to the waters, A& II. Fran. I faw him beat the furges under him, "And ride upon their backs." This is the fcripture expreffion, Thou caufeft me to ride upon the wind, Job xxx. 22. The Lord rideth on the fwift cloud, If. xix. 1. Extol him that rideth upon the heavens, PL, lxviii. 4. So Milton II, 540. "And ride the air "In whirlwind. 13 And fo did Horace before him. Per ficulas equitavit undas. Eurip. in Phoeniff. ✯. 219. Ζεφύρι πνοαῖς ΙΠΠΕΥΣΑΝΤΟΣ And again, X, 475. "Forc'd 14 to ride "Th' untractable abyfs." And II, 930. "As in a cloudy chair, afcending rides "Audacious." And Shakespeare himself in Macbeth, Act IV. "Infected be the air whereon they ride." But perhaps that expreffion of the pfalmift, civ. 7. Who walketh upon the wings of the wind: will vindicate Shakespeare in saying, "To run upon the fharp wind of the north." 'Tis certain that Sir William Davenant and Mr. Dryden did not understand this paffage, for in their alteration of this play, they chang❜d it thus, "To run against the fharp wind of the north." "14 To ride the Abyfs? If he rode it furely he could "not toil so much, as he talks on. But the author gave it, "Forc'd to TRIE "Th' untra&table Abyss "Aerias tentale vias." Dr. Bentley. SECT |