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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 8
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.
First, It signifies, To cut off, or to cut down (Chap. 22.15, 16.) Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Which were cut down out of time: That old way was the way of sin (the way of holiness is the oldest way, but the way of sin is a very old way.) They who have trod the way of sin, were cut down by judgement, and they were cut down out of time; that is, the course of divine Justice prevented the course of nature, and struck them to death before death useth to strike. So some render it here, and then the sense riseth thus, Thou hast cut me down by the stroke of these afflictions, and this is a witness against me.
First, It signifies, To cut off, or to cut downe (Chap. 22.15, 16.) Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have troden? Which were cut downe out of time: That old way was the way of sin (the way of holinesse is the oldest way, but the way of sin is a very old way.) They who have trod the way of sin, were cut downe by judgement, and they were cut downe out of time; that is, the course of divine Justice prevented the course of nature, and struck them to death before death useth to strike. So some render it here, and then the sense riseth thus, Thou hast cut me downe by the stroke of these afflictions, and this is a witnesse against me.
1Secondly, The word according to the Chaldee, signifies to bind, and fasten one with Cords, or with fetters of Iron, as Malefactors are bound in Prison (Prov. 5.22.) His own iniquity shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the Cords of his sin. The Hebrew word which we render to hold, or fasten, is expressed by this of Job in the Chaldee Paraphrase. Taking this sense of the word, the interpretation given of the whole is, Thou hast bound, or straitened me with the cords of my affliction, 2lest I should get out, or make an escape, and this is a witness against me: There is a truth in both these readings, as to this place; but because wrinkles are more proper to the leanness which follows, therefore I shall not stay upon them, but keep to our own reading.