A35473:1344
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 10
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.
They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully.
Some render it, Reproaching me, they have smitten me on the cheek: Smiting on the cheek is taken two ways.
Some render it, Reproaching me, they have smitten me on the cheek: Smiting on the cheek is taken two wayes.
Literally. Metaphorically.
What literal smiting is, all know, and most have felt, but had Job any about him who used him thus rudely? I conceive, not; and therefore we may understand him metaphorically. So, smiting on the cheek, is to reproach: And these words, They have smitten me on the cheek reproachfully, are no more nor less, then, They have reproached me. To smite on the cheek, is a thing so reproachful, that, by an Hebraism,1 it signifieth to reproach (