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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.
Thou huntest me as a fierce lion] For Thou, some render (it) referring to his affliction, For it increaseth and it hunteth me (my affliction hunteth me) as a fierce lion. Sorrows are compared to a fierce lion. Afflictions hunt and follow, they tear and destroy like a wild beast.1 Like as a lion, or like the young lion, roaring on his prey (as the Prophet speaks, Isa. 45.) when a multitude of shepherds is called out against him (Christ is compared to such a lion there) will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: Such were the afflictions of distressed, despised Job, they braved him to his very face, and would not with-draw or turn away from him,2 notwithstanding all the out cries and loudest lamentations which he made against them.
Thou huntest me as a fierce lion] For Thou, some render (it) referring to his affliction, For it encreaseth and it hunteth me (my affliction hunteth me) as a fierce lion. Sorrows are compared to a fierce lion. Afflictions hunt and follow, they tear and destroy like a wilde beast.1 Like as a lion, or like the young lion, roaring on his prey (as the Prophet speaks, Isa. 45.) when a multitude of shepherds is called out against him (Christ is compared to such a lion there) will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: Such were the afflictions of distressed, despised Job, they braved him to his very face, and would not with-draw or turn away from him,2 notwithstanding all the out cries and loudest lamentations which he made against them.
- 1Effert see dolor meus ut leo, nequaquam cedens Merc.Effert se dolor meus ut leo, nequaquam cedens Merc.
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