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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.
Rather take the words declaratively, not for a wish of greater future afflictions, but for a manifestation of the greatness of his present afflictions: so we express them, I am full of confusion, ⟨p. 553⟩See thou mine affliction, for it increaseth. This is a clear and a fair sense: Job intending to describe his estate more fully, showeth it still upon the increase, waxing worse and worse, greater and greater. As if he had said, mine are a pile or heap of afflictions, and still more are piled up, and heaped on.
Rather take the words declaratively, not for a wish of greater future afflictions, but for a manifestation of the greatnesse of his present afflictions: so we expresse them, I am full of confusion, ⟨p. 553⟩See thou mine affliction, for it encreaseth. This is a clear and a fair sense: Job intending to describe his estate more fully, sheweth it still upon the encrease, waxing worse and worse, greater and greater. As if he had said, mine are a pile or heap of afflictions, and still more are piled up, and heaped on.
There is an elegance in it, as taken in the other sense,1 for pride or lifting up. See my affliction, it waxeth proud. For as the waves of the sea are called proud waves, when they swell and increase: So an affliction increasing and swelling may be called a proud affliction. Some afflictions like a great sea rise above us, and stand over us; or like a cruel master domineer and insult upon us. Jobs afflictions were proud ones, they came upon him with a kind of authority, as if they would lay him at their very feet. Hence observe.
There is an elegancy in it, as taken in the other sense,1 for pride or lifting up. See my affliction, it waxeth proud. For as the waves of the sea are called proud waves, when they swell and encrease: So an affliction encreasing and swelling may be called a proud affliction. Some afflictions like a great sea rise above us, and stand over us; or like a cruell master domineer and insult upon us. Jobs afflictions were proud ones, they came upon him with a kinde of authority, as if they would lay him at their very feet. Hence observe.