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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 18
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Which wise men have told from their Fathers, and have not hid it.
Eliphaz treads the same steps, as in his first discourse with Job. For after he had there delivered the contents or sum of his Vision, he appeals to the judgement of the Saints, Chap. 5. So here, having told Job that he would declare what he had seen, he refers him also to the judgement of others, That which wise men have told their Fathers, and have not hid it. I refer you to men, and those not men of a mean rank, but to godly wise men; in which, Eliphaz seems again to answer what Job had objected, that the points he had offered were of common and vulgar observation (Chap. 12.3.) Who knows not such things as these? Eliphaz replies, these things are no common discourse, they are such as wise men have told from their Fathers; as if he had said, Do not despise what I say, as ordinary, or as a novelty, no, nor as received from corrupt antiquity, for besides what I have seen,1 I have good authority for what I speak: the ancient and the wise vote with me; Wise men have told it from their Fathers, here is the conveyance.
Eliphaz treads the same steps, as in his first discourse with Job. For after he had there delivered the contents or sum of his Vision, he appeales to the judgement of the Saints, Chap. 5. So here, having told Job that he would declare what he had seene, he referrs him also to the judgement of others, That which wise men have told their Fathers, and have not hid it. I referr you to men, and those not men of a meane ranke, but to godly wise men; in which, Eliphaz seemes againe to answer what Job had objected, that the points he had offered were of common and vulgar observation (Chap. 12.3.) Who knowes not such things as these? Eliphaz replyes, these things are no common discourse, they are such as wise men have told from their Fathers; as if he had sayd, Doe not despise what I say, as ordinary, or as a novelty, no, nor as received from corrupt antiquity, for besides what I have seen,