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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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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, 1and the River of God, are put for a great Mountaine, and a great River; so here. As if he had fayd, Thou hast received many great consolations from us thy Freinds, and doest thou account them small? But I rather take the sense plainely, that he calls them so, because God is the author and giver, the fountaine and originall from whom all consolations spring and flow.
- 1Suas et sociorum consolationes, vocat Dei consolationes non sine arrogantia & fastu. Drus.
The Consolations of God are two-fold: First, Arising from good things already exhibited to us. Secondly, From good things promised to us.