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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.
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 (Coloss. 2.15.) He spoiled principalities and powers; he took away the prey or booty of souls, which they had got, and led them disarmed like prisoners of war. And the devil did what he could to ruin and spoil Christ, to break Christ to pieces. Thus Christ and Satan strove and contended one with another. And the word (Shuph) hath an elegant nearness in sound to our English. We call that noise which is made by the ruder motion of the feet, shuffling, and when men contend much, we hear the shuffling of their feet. Job was striving and shuffling with God in prayer, and God was striving and shuffling with Job in storms and tempests.
The word we translate [break] signifies an utter contusion,1 or the totall 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 destroied the serpents power; he spoil'd and ruin'd him for ever: the Apostle phrases it so (Coloss. 2.15.) He spoiled principalities and powers; he took away the prey or booty of souls, which they had got, and led them disarm'd like prisoners of warre. And the devil did what he could to ruine and spoil Christ, to break Christ to pieces. Thus Christ and Satan strove and contended one with another. And the word (Shuph) hath an elegant neernesse in sound to our English. We call that noise which is made by the ruder motion of the feet, shufling, and when men contend much, we hear the shufling of their feet. Job was striving and shufling with God in praier, and God was striving and shufling with Job in storms and tempests.