But if the Lord make a new thing
Or "create a creation", or "creature" F19, what
never was before, or put those persons to a death that none ever
in the world died of yet; what that is he means is next
expressed:
and the earth open her mouth and swallow them up, with all
that
[appertain] unto them;
their persons, their wives, children and substance:
and they go down quick into the pit;
alive into the grave the opening earth makes for them; this is
the new thing created; though the Rabbins say F20, the
mouth of the earth, or the opening of the earth, was created from
the days of the creation, that is, it was determined or decreed
so early that it should be:
then ye shall understated that these men have provoked the
Lord;
by rising up against Moses and Aaron, and so against the Lord; by
falsely accusing his servants, and endeavouring to set the people
against them, and so alter the constitution of things in church
and state.