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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.
Here is a further aggravation of his misery, when he is destroyed, It shall deny him; What shall deny him? Some read it thus, his place shall deny him. Can a place speak, affirm, or deny? No, it cannot; but it is usual in Scripture, by a Prosopopoeia, a fiction of ⟨p. 110⟩a person to ascribe speech to beasts, to trees and places too, things not only without reason, but without life. Such an elegance is here, It shall deny him; that is, when he is destroyed, if any man shall ask the question, where is this man? Where is this goodly tree that stood here before? The place shall answer, He is not here now.
Here is a further aggravation of his misery, when he is destroyed, It shall deny him; What shall deny him? Some read it thus, his place shall deny him. Can a place speak, affirm, or deny? No, it cannot; but it is usuall in Scripture, by a Prosopopeia, a fiction of ⟨p. 110⟩a person to ascribe speech to beasts, to trees and places too, things not only without reason, but without life. Such an elegancy is here, It shall deny him; that is, when he is destroyed, if any man shall ask the question, where is this man? Where is this goodly tree that stood here before? The place shall answer, He is not here now.
1The Hebrew is, The place shall lie; the place shall feign and say, we have not seen him; we know not what is become of him: So men use to answer, when they are either afraid or ashamed to own one that is asked for.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] •ontietur ei [Greek or Hebrew]. Sept. er prosopope ā tribuit sermonē & mendacium rei inanimae; quod insolens non est in his libris Ita è loco suo excidetur & interibit, ut nullus jam agnoscat eum ibi unquam fuisse. Merc