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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.
A thousand is a great number, a full number,1 and therefore it is put for all great numbers. It is a leading number, therefore the word in the Hebrew for a thousand, cometh from a root which signifies to lead, and the Noun, Duke or a Captain, who is a chief and a leader of men, Gen. 36. The Dukes of Edom, or the leaders of Edom, As also a master or teacher, because he goes afore, and is a chief over those he instructs. And hence the number thousand in the Hebrew hath it's name, because a thousand, is (as it were) a prince among numbers, a chief number, a captain number; and is therefore put for all great numbers, or for the greatest numbers that can be imagined: to say, one of a thousand, is, as much as to say, One amongst all. One is not a number, it is but the seed, principle or beginning of number, Aunity hath a seminal virtue in it; all numbers are made out of ones, but one it self is no number. So that to say, One of a thousand, is to put the greatest and the least number in opposition, it is as much as to say, a man cannot answer God in any thing that ever he did in the whole course of his life (2 Pet. 3.8.) One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, 2and a thousand years as one day. When he saith, a thousand years, he means all years, all time put together, is but as one day to the Lord. A day was the first distinction of time; the first perfect time that was created, was a day: now put a thousand years together, it is but as one day to the Lord; All times and one time are all one to him who inhabits eternity. In Psal. 90.6. it is, a thousand years are but as yesterday, which notes all time past, as Peter notes, all time to come, is, but as one day.
A thousand is a great number, a full number,1 and therefore it is put for all great numbers. It is a leading number, therefore the word in the Hebrew for a thousand, commeth from a root which signifies to lead, and the Noun, Duke or a Captain, who is a chief and a leader of men,