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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 13
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Take it literally, and then to cleave the reins is an expression of putting a man to the greatest sorrow, or pain, imaginable; if the back were chinned (as we speak) and cut quite down, through the reins, this would be an exquisite torment; the reins are a very tender part: A deep wound in some other parts of the body, is but a scratch, and such wounding were a kind of embracing, in comparison of that.
Take it literally, and then to cleave the reines is an expression of putting a man to the greatest sorrow, or paine, imaginable; if the back vvere chyned (as we speake) and cut quite downe, through the reynes, this would be an exquisite torment; the reynes are a very tender part: A deep vvound in some other parts of the body, is but a scratch, and such vvounding were a kinde of embracing, in comparison of that.
Secondly, To cleave the reins, is to weaken, because the reins, or the loins, are the strength of a man, or of any ⟨p. 300⟩creature; Lo his strength is in his loins, saith God of Behemoth, 1which is as some think the Elephant (Job. 40.16.) And a man of no loins, is a man of no strength, in common language.
Secondly, To cleave the reynes, is to weaken, because the reynes, or the loynes, are the strength of a man, or of any ⟨p. 300⟩creature; Loe his strength is in his loynes, saith God of Behemoth, 1which is as some thinke the Elephant (Job. 40.16.) And a man of no loynes, is a man of no strength, in common language.