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'his commentary on Ifaiah, remarks thus : In many<br />
places of the Scripture, the loins are put for the<br />
organs of generation. And Origen, in homily the<br />
nth, on the 36th pfalm, ver. the 8th, upon there words,<br />
My loins are filled with a fore difeafe, comments thus :<br />
The loins are faid to be the receptacle of the human<br />
feed, from whence that kind of fin is here infatuated,<br />
which is the effeEt of luft. It is a proverb among the<br />
Hebrews, To gird the loins, fignifying to preferve their<br />
chaftity, and forbear lewdnefs. In this fenfe GOD<br />
-freaks to job. in the fourth chapter, ver. 2, Gird up<br />
-thy loins like a man : that is, reftrain like a brave<br />
man thy appetite, as Ifidorus lays, In thefe veffels<br />
that they may be prepared to refill, fince in them is<br />
the feat of lewdnefs. We may compare Suidas with<br />
this paffage. St. Jerome interprets that of the prophet<br />
Nahum, Look upon thy way, ftrengthen thy loins,<br />
an fecure thy virtue. So that of John the Baptift,<br />
Matth. III. ver. 4, Who had a leathern girdle about<br />
his loins ; and whom, upon that account, Gregory<br />
Nazianzen and Nicetus would have us imitate. .<br />
Neither is Jeremiah, chap. I. ver. 16; nor Ifaiah,<br />
chap. XXXII. ver. I I; nor St. Paul to the Ephefians,<br />
.chap. IV. ver. 14, to be otherwife underftood ; nor<br />
Solomon,
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