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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 Septuagint raises the sense of the later clause,1 Though thy beginning was small yet thy later end shall be ineffable, such as none shall be able to tell over or describe. Thy estate shall be beyond account.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Sept.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Sept.
A Question arises how we are to make this comparison between Jobs beginning and later end? Whether we are to refer it to the estate he had before his affliction, compared with what he should have after his affliction; or, whether we are to understand it of the augmentation and increase of his estate after his affliction, which at the beginning should be but small, but afterwards should receive a mighty augmentation. The sense is good either way.
A Question arises how we are to make this comparis•n between Jobs beginning and later end? Whether we are to referre it to the estate he had before his affliction, compared with what he should have after his affliction; or, whether we are to understand it of the augmentation and encrease of his estate after his affliction, which at the beginning should be but small, but afterwards should receive a mighty augmentation. The sense is good either way.
First, If we understand it of his estate before and after his troubles compared together, Though thy beginning or the first estate which God gave thee were small, yet thy later end, or the estate which God will give thee, when these storms are over-blown shall wonderfully increase.