A35389:1647
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
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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.
As if he had said, if any think that I have strained too high in making my self equal in death with Kings, &c. yet surely I should have been as those, that never knew themselves to be in this world, or as those that the world never knew to be, that is, As an hidden untimely birth, or as infants which never saw light.
As if he had said, if any thinke that I have strained too high in making my selfe equall in death with Kings, &c. yet surely I should have beene as those, that never knew themselves to be in this world, or as those that the world never knew to be, that is, As an hidden untimely birth, or as infants which never saw light.
An hidden untimely birth. The word [Nephel] in the Hebrew for an untimely birth, comes from [Naphal] which signifieth to fall down, or to fall off,1 as untimely fruit falls off from a Tree; which falling off before it is ripe, is unprofitable and useless: When the mother miscarries, her fruit is like the fruit of a tree, shaken off and falling down before it be ripe, or in the blooming. And the same word is used in the Hebrew, to signify a Giant; There were (Nephilim) Giants in the earth in those days, Gen. 6.4. and the reason why they are so called, is as some apprehend, because they were Apostates, such as fell off from God, from true worship and Religion: Or because they did fall upon men, as that phrase is applied to cruel men, they did fall upon the poor, So the word is used, chap. 1. ver. 15. of this Book, The Sabeans fell upon Jobs Oxen, &c, They who fall from God by impiety, will quickly fall upon men by cruelty. Or because the dread and terror of them made men to fall down for fear before them: It is very observable, that the same word should signify, an infant of less then a span long, and a Giant (it may be) of more then six cubits and a span, (1 Sam. 17.4.) and both upon equal reason, and with equal significancy.