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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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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?
A third gives this sense,1 Are the consolations of God small to thee? That is, Doest thou esteeme the consolations of God so cheape, that he will give them to such a one as thou? or that hee will lavish them out upon the wicked, and cast these Pearles to Swine, to such as are blasphemers and contemners of God?
- 1An consolationes Dei tam contemptibiles judicas ut projiciat eas ante blasphematores.
But why doth Eliphaz call these the consolations of God? Did God administer them to Job with his own hand, or did he speak to Job from Heaven? Some conceive that though he and his Friends spake them, yet Eliphaz calls them the consolations of God, by an Hebraism, because he judged them great consolations. Thus in Scripture, The Mountain of God, 1and the River of God, are put for a great Mountain, and a great River; so here. As if he had said, Thou hast received many great consolations from us thy Friends, and doest thou account them small? But I rather take the sense plainly, that he calls them so, because God is the author and giver, the fountain and original from whom all consolations spring and flow.
But why doth Eliphaz call these the consolations of God? Did God administer them to Job with his owne hand, or did he speake to Job from Heaven? Some conceive that though he and his Freinds spake them, yet Eliphaz calls them the consolations of God, by an Hebraisme, because he judged them great consolations. Thus in Scripture, The Mountaine of God,