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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.
1The original signifies usually a gentle and an easy kind of death; Giving up the ghost, is not a pulling or a violent rending of life away from us, but our laying it down, our surrender or willing resignation of it. Some read this clause, not as we optatively, O that I had given up the ghost! but declaratively, Wherefore hast thou brought me out of the womb? for then I had quickly given up the ghost. But rather take it as a wish, O that I had given up the ghost!
1The originall signifies usually a gentle and an easie kinde of death; Giving up the ghost, is not a pulling or a violent rending of life away from us, but our laying it down, our surrender or willing resignation of it. Some read this clause, not as we optatively, O that I had given up the ghost! but declaratively, Wherefore hast thou brought me out of the womb? for then I had quickly given up the ghost. But rather take it as a wish, O that I had given up the ghost!
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Facilem & sine dolore mortem innuit.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Facilem & sine dolore mortem innuit.
And no eye had seen me.
That is (say some) I would I had died before I had been born, for then no eye had seen me. Or more generally thus. O that I had died speedily, so speedily that I might have gone out of the world, before I was observed to have been there: Who delights to see the dead? especially a child dead-born, or dying as soon as born? Sarah was the delight of Abraham's eyes, whiles she lived, and yet as soon as she was dead, he gives any money for a sepulchre to bury her out of his sight. Or again, Job that he might show how little he regarded life, disregards that which is most desirable in life.