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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
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.
Verse 8. Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
This verse gives us a further argument of the mighty power of God. See how Jobs discourse moves from earth to heaven, and from the heavens down to the sea. He searches for the wonders of Gods power and wisdom, in heaven and earth, and in the waters. Before he shows God stopping the course of the Sun, and sealing up the stars; now spreading out of the heavens, and treading upon the sea.
This verse gives us a further argument of the mighty power of God. See how Jobs discourse moves from earth to heaven, and from the heavens down to the sea. He searches for the wonders of Gods power and wisdome, in heaven and earth, and in the waters. Before he shews God stopping the course of the Sunne, and sealing up the stars; now spreading out of the heavens, and treading upon the sea.
He spreadeth out the heavens.
The heavens in reference to the earth, are the upper part of the world. The heavens are (as it were) the roof of the great house, which God made, or as a spangled Canopy over our heads, He spreadeth out the heavens; The word is of the Dual number in the Hebrew, and hath divers derivations, which are considerable to enlighten us in the point.