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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
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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.
When a man smites another on the right cheek, he smites with his left hand; the left hand strikes the right cheek, and the left hand is the weaker in most, and gives a weaker blow. If thou receive a blow on thy right cheek with the left hand, turn the other, and let him smite thee with the right hand, let him give thee a smarter, a harder blow: that is, If a man disgrace thee a little, reward him not with disgrace, but prepare to bear a greater, turn the left cheek. And the reason of this was, because slaves and condemned persons were thus smitten, as also such as were supposed to speak irreverently to the Magistrate.
When a man smites another on the right cheek, he smites with his left hand; the left hand strikes the right cheek, and the left hand is the weaker in most, and gives a weaker blow. If thou receive a blow on thy right cheek with the left hand, turne the other, and let him smite thee with the right hand, let him give thee a smarter, a hander blow: that is, If a man disgrace thee a little, reward him not with disgrace, but prepare to beare a greater, turne the left cheek. And the reason of this was, because slaves and condemned persons were thus smitten, as also such as were supposed to speake irreverently to the Magistrate.
Hence it was that when Paul had spoken freely to the Council, saying, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day: presently Ananias the high Priest, commanded those that stood by him to smite him on the mouth (Acts 23.1, 2.) In which case Christ himself was smitten by an Officer that stood by (John 18.22.) From all which Scripture testimonies it is more then manifest, that to smite a man on the cheek, is to disgrace, because they who fell under disgrace, were usually smitten on the cheek: and this I ⟨p. 271⟩take to be the most suitable interpretation of Jobs complaint in this place, They smite me on the cheek reproachfully.