Exodus 15

Exodus 15:2

SOng] the subject of my praises and holy songs, prepare him an babitation] the Italian hath it, glorisie him] the Hebrew, I will give him ornaments, and trimmings; others, I will set him up a habitation, that is to say a holy place, where hee shall be served and honored.

Exodus 15:8

With the blast] whereby he intimates that the wind, Exodus 14:21 was miraculously raised by God, and accompanied with a supernaturall property.

Exodus 15:11

Fearefull] the Italian Reverend] who by thine excellent and famous works, causest thy self to be respected and feared.

Exodus 15:12

The earth] it should seem he meant the miry bottom of the sea, wherein many did stick.

Exodus 15:13

Towards thy holy habitation] That is to say, the land of Canaan where thou hast determined to set thy holy temple, and the habitation of the signes of thy presence, in grace and power.

Exodus 15:14

Shall eare] The Italian, Have heard it] He speaketh of times to come, in words signifying times past, according to the manner of Prophets.

Exodus 15:16

As still] The Hebrew hath it, quiet and mute: See Genesis 35:5. Psalms 76:6.

Exodus 15:17

The mountaine] that is to say, the hilly countrey of Canaan, which thou hast chosen for the place of thy service, and for the habitation of thy people. Deut. 32. 8. 9. especially mount Moriah destinated for the building of the Temple, Psalms 75:1-10.

Exodus 15:20

The Prophetesse] See Numbers 12:2 A timbrell] according to the manner of publick rejoycings; Judges 11:34. 1 Sam. 18 6. Psalms 68:26 Dancs] That is to say, mounting motions of the body, in token of rejoycing, exultation and rapture of the mind, without any lasciviousnes or lightnes: See 2 Sam. 6. 14. 21. others translate it Flutes.

Exodus 15:21

Answered] In manner of an antheme, as 1 Chron. 16. 41. 2 Cron. 5. 18. Ezra 3:11. Jeremiah 33:11.

Exodus 15:23

Marah] That is to say, bitternesse, or a bitter thing.

Exodus 15:25

Atree] Either that this naturall property was in the wood, increased peradventure, and strengthen’d by miracle: or that all the vertue proceeded immediatly from God, and that the wood was but only a token appointed by Gods will, as 2 Kings 2. 20. and 4. 41. to which it pleased him to joyne his power, to exercise the peoples, and Moses faith and obedience, Made] he began to give them straiter lawes of obedience, having by the meeting with these waters, had a triall of their perversenesse, and by the miraculous changing of them, given them sufficient cause to depend wholly upon his providence, Exodus 16:4. Deuteronomy 8:16.

Exodus 15:26

Diseases] And other plagues, Healeth] Or preserveth, 2 Cron. 30. 20.