CLAVUS. Moses told the Hebrews, that if they spared the Canaanites, these People would prove to them quasi clavi in oculis, & lanceæ in lateribus. Or, according to some Interpreters, They shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides. By the word Clavi, those Stakes are often Numb. xxxiii. 55. If. xxxiii. 20. Isai. xxii. 23.meant, which were fixed into the Earth for the support of Tents. Isaiah speaking of the new Jerusalem, under the allegory of a Tent newly set up, says, Non auferuntur clavi ejus in sempiternum, & omnes funiculi ejus non rumpentur. And elsewhere speaking of Eliakim the Son of Hilkiah, Figam illum paxillum in loco fideli--- & suspendens super eum omnem gloriam domus patris ejus. I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place, and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his Father’s house.
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