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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 Vulgar takes it in that ill sense, as noting pride and highmindednesse, translating by the Noun, thus, For pride thou dost catch me as a lion: or thou dost hunt me as a lion, because I am proud. A lion is a stout creature, and may be an emblem of pride.
The Vulgar takes it in that ill sense, as noting pride and highmindednesse, translating by the Noun, thus, For pride thou dost catch me as a lion: or thou dost hunt me as a lion, because I am proud. A lion is a stout creature, and may be an embleme of pride.
Another gives a sense near that. When it lifteth up it self, then thou huntest me as a fierce lion. When what lifteth up it self? when my head lifteth up it self; he had said in the former verse, If I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head, for, if I do lift up my head in pride, then thou wilt hunt me as a fierce lion; I shall be sure ⟨p. 552⟩to smart for every proud thought and high imagination. Both these translations render the meaning of Job thus, If I should plead my own righteousness and innocency before thee, as thinking therein to lift up my head, and so should wax confident in my self, I shall presently pay for it, for I perceive that thou art preparing thine instruments against me, as men do against fierce lions, and wild savage beasts, to hunt, catch and destroy me. Here is a truth in thesi, God doth resist the proud; if any head lifteth it self up against God, God can quickly lay such an head as low as the ground. But, in Hypothesi, or in Jobs case, I cannot assent to it, as a truth suiting this Text.
Another gives a sense near that. When it lifteth up it self, then thou huntest me as a fierce lion. When what lifteth up it self? when my head lifteth up it self; he had said in the former verse, If I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head, for, if I doe lift up my head in pride, then thou wilt hunt me as a fierce lion; I shall be sure ⟨p. 552⟩