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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 15 › Verse 11
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The Septuagint translation is far wider then the former, Thou hast received but few wounds, in comparison of the sins that thou hast committed; which is a Paraphrase, not a translation, and such a Paraphrase as seems to lye quite without the compass of the text: The meaning and intendment of it may be given thus; as if he had said, Thou complainest that thou art greatly afflicted, that thy sorrows are innumerable, 1but if thou considerest thy great and many sins, thy sufferings are few, yea, thy sufferings may rather be called consolations, and thy losses gains: Are the consolations of God small to thee, seeing thou hast sinned so much? When God lays but a little affliction upon sinful man, he may be said, to give a great deal of mercy.
The Septuagint translation is farre wider then the former, Thou hast received but few wounds, in comparison of the sinnes that thou hast committed; which is a Paraphrase, not a translation, and such a Paraphrase as seemes to lye quite without the compasse of the text: The meaning and intendment of it may be given thus; as if he had sayd, Thou complainest that thou art greatly afflicted, that thy sorrowes are innumerable, 1but if thou considerest thy great and many sinnes, thy sufferings are few, yea, thy sufferings may rather be called consolations, and thy losses gaines: Are the consolations of God small to thee, seeing thou hast sinned so much? When God layes but a little affliction upon sinfull man, he may be sayd, to give a great deale of mercy.
- 1Pauca prae iis quae peccasti accepisti vulnera. Sep.
A third gives this sense,1 Are the consolations of God small to thee? That is, Doest thou esteem the consolations of God so cheap, that he will give them to such a one as thou? or that he will lavish them out upon the wicked, and cast these Pearls to Swine, to such as are blasphemers and contemners of God?