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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 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.
The word which we translate to wink, is found only in this text all the Bible over. It properly signifies to insinuate by the eye, to speak or make significant tokens by the eye; there is a language of the eye, as well as of the tongue; here Jobs eye gave some ill language to the eye or apprehension of Eliphaz. There are various opinions about it.
The word which we translate to winke, is found onely in this text all the Bible over. It properly signifies to insinuate by the eye, to speak or make significant tokens by the eye; there is a language of the eye, as well as of the tongue; here Jobs eye gave some ill language to the eye or apprehension of Eliphaz. There are various opinions about it.
•••st, Some interpret it, as a note of opposition against, ⟨p. 46⟩or of dissatisfaction with the counsels which his Friends gave him, as was lately hinted. Shutting of the eye, imports shutting of the mind, or a refusal of what is spoken. When God judicially closed the eyes of the Jews,1 saying to the Prophet (Isa. 6.10.) Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; this showed the shutting of their minds against the truth: so also doth a voluntary or an affected shutting of the eye in some men, though in others it is an act of stronger attention or intention of their spirits to what is spoken, which some take to be the English of Jobs winking, as we shall see a little after.
•••st, Some interpret it, as a note of opposition against, ⟨p. 46⟩or of dissatisfaction with the counsells which his Friends gave him, as was lately hinted. Shutting of the eye, imports shutting of the minde, or a refusall of what is spoken. When God judicially closed the eyes of the Jewes,