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An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…
An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Job delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus near the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Iob delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus neare the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by G. Miller for Henry Overton, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Junius and Tremelius, have a translation different from all these, I would they had cursed thee that enlighten the day, who are ready to stir up Leviathan, or the Whale. That which all other Interpreters I have met with, call cursing of the day, they call enlightening the day.
Junius and Tremelius, have a translation different from all these, I would they had cursed thee that inlighten the day, who are ready to stirre up Leviathan, or the Whale. That which all other Interpreters I have met with, call cursing of the day, they call inlightning the day.
You see there is much variety about the rendering of these words out of the Hebrew. And there is as much diversity of opinion grounded thereupon.
You see there is much variety about the rendring of these words out of the Hebrew. And there is as much diversity of opinion grounded thereupon.
First, Some apprehend that Job in this verse, alludes to the custom of a certain people in Ethiopia called the Atlantes, frequently ⟨p. 368⟩mentioned in divers histories,1 who living under the torrid Zone, in an extreme hot climate, used to curse the Sun when it arose, because it scorched them with vehement heat: This made them in love with the night, and hate the day. And so the sense is made out thus, Let them curse this night, who use to curse the Sunrising every day, whose pain heightening and embittering their spirits, caused them to pour out the most bitter and revengeful execrations.