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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 17. For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Jobs sorrows put him to his rhetoric still,1 He breaketh me with a tempest. An expression raising his afflictions to the height, yet, not beyond the reality of them, He breaketh me with a tempest.
Jobs sorrows put him to his rhetorick still,1 He breaketh me with a tempest. An expression raising his afflictions to the height, yet, not beyond the reality of them, He breaketh me with a tempest.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Turbo.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Turbo.
The word we translate [break] signifies an utter contusion,1 or the total ruining of a thing or person,2 the dashing of either to pieces. The word is used reciprocally of Christ and the devil, in that great and first promise of Christ, The seed of the woman. (Gen. 13.16.) It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Christ having infinite power, utterly destroyed the serpents power; he spoiled and ruined him for ever: the Apostle phrases it so (