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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.
When Bildad saith, Our days upon earth are but as a shadow, we may understand it, either of the time past, and so our life is but as ⟨p. 67⟩a shadow that is gone. Or, it may be meant of the whole life of man taken together. The life of man (take it from the beginning to the ending, from the Alpha to the Omega, from the first to the last of it) is a shadow. The comparison is frequent in Scripture, I shall not need to stay upon it. See two or three particulars of the resemblance.
When Bildad saith, Our daies upon earth are but as a shadow, vve may understand it, either of the time past, and so our life is but as ⟨p. 67⟩a shadow that is gone. Or, it may be meant of the whole life of man taken together. The life of man (take it from the beginning to the ending, from the Alpha to the Omega, from the first to the last of it) is a shadow. The comparison is frequent in Scripture, I shall not need to stay upon it. See two or three particulars of the resemblance.
1. The life of man is as a shadow,1 because it hath little in it that is substantial, a shadow is opposed to a substance; our life rather seems to be, then is, it is so quickly gone.
1. The life of man is as a shadow,1 because it hath little in it that is substantiall, a shadow is opposed to a substance; our life rather seems to be, then is, it is so quickly gone.
- 1Umbra est quid tnane, & nihil habens solidae substantiae.Ʋmbra est quid tnane, & nihil habens solidae substantiae.