Exod. xx. 20.PROOF, Tryal, Temptation. God intended to prove you, to see if you would walk in his Ways. After he had proved you and afflicted you, he had Pity on you. God Deut. viii. 16.commands Gideon to bring his Troops to a Brook, that he might prove them there. As Judg. vii. 4.Gold and Silver are try’d in the Furnace, so God proves the Heart. The Verb probo is also put for to know, to examine, Omnia probate, Prov. xvii. 3. 1 Thes. v. 21. Luk. xii. 56. Phil. i. 10.quod bonum est tenete. You know how to examine the Appearance of the Heaven. Faciem cœli, nostis probare. And elsewhere; Ut probetis potiora. And again; Be renew’d in Spirit, that you may know what is the Will of God. Ut probetis quæ sit voluntas Rom. xii. 2.Dei bona, &c. Probare tirones; 2 Kings xxv. 10. He that exercises them, or that proves the young Soldiers. The Hebrew says, He that is the Master of the Butchers, 2 Kings xxv. 10. רב טבחיםor of the Cooks, or of the King’s Guard.
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