A35473:1450
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 12
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.
There is yet another elegance in the signification of the word: For as Hebreicians observe, it notes a bruising, like that of Grapes, or Olives, which are trodden in a press, to make Wine or Oil;1 hence also a Noun from this Verb signifies the Wine-press (Isa. 63.3.) Now Grapes and Olives being trodden, are broken and bruised in pieces; not only is their form and beauty totally spoiled, but all their sweetness, juice, and liquor, is wrought out of them, and they are left as a dry lump.
There is yet another elegancy in the signification of the vvord: For as Hebreicians observe, it notes a bruising, like that of Grapes, or Olives, vvhich are trodden in a presse, to make Wine or Oyle;1 hence also a Noune from this Verbe signifies the Wine-presse (Isa. 63.3.) Now Grapes and Olives being trodden, are broken and bruised in peices; not onely is their forme and beauty totally spoyled, but all their sweetnesse, juyce, and liquor, is vvrought out of them, and they are left as a dry lumpe.
- 1Confractus sum velut uvae aut olivae in torculari.
Now look what Grapes and Olives are, when taken out of the Press; even such a lump was Job; he was broken asunder in the Wine-press, though not of Gods wrath, as his Friends mis-judged, yet in the Wine-press of his chastisements and severest trials; all his worldly moisture was squeezed out, and his earthly glory was quite defaced, he had nothing left of that, but (as it were) a dry husk; yet his spiritual estate was still juicy, and his soul by these pressings, treadings, and breakings, had distilled much sweet Oil and Wine, and much more was still remaining in him. From these heightened significations of the word laid together;