STAFF. Anna says of her Son Tobias, Tob. v. 17.Is he not the Staff of our Hand? God threatens Moab to break the Staff of his Glory, his Strength, in which he placed his Confidence: How is the strong Staff Jer.
xlviii. 17. broken, and the beautiful Rod! When the Prophets threaten with a Famine, they say, Ezek. iv. 16.that God will break the Staff of Bread, or reduce them to the utmost Necessity. Do 2 Kings xviii. 21. Ezek.xxix.you hope to find Assistance in that Staff of a Reed, in the King of Egypt? He is a brittle Reed, which will break under every one Isai.xxxvi. 6. Isai. x. 5.that would lean upon it, and its Splinters will enter into his Hand, and wound him. The Wicked shall be as a Staff in the Hand of God; he shall make use of it to prove the Good: Assur virga furoris mei, & baculus, Zechar. viii. 4.&c. In Jerusalem shall still be seen old Men leaning upon their Staffs. Jacob says, that Genesis xxxii, 10.he passed over Jordan, having only a Staff in his Hand, and that he passed back again with two great Troops of Persons and Flocks of Cattle. God commanded the Israelites, when they ate the Passover, to have a Staff in their Hands, like Travellers. Exod. x.David makes a kind of Imprecation against Joab, saying, that there should always be 2 Sam. iii. 29. מחזיק בפלךsome of his Family that should walk with a Staff; that is to say, there should always be lame Persons. St. Jerom has translated it by Persons handling the Spindle: Tenentes fusum.