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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 19
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.
Some read, No strange thing passed among them; Both readings are a description of wise and godly Princes, who having the earth given them, No stranger, or no strange thing passeth among them.
Strangers are here taken under a double notion: First, no ⟨p. 84⟩stranger, that is no enemy: To clear which notion of the word Stranger, we must remember that as the Grecians (conceiting themselves the best bred people in the World) called all other Nations Barbarians; so the people of Israel, the stock of Abraham (being Gods peculiar Covenant-people) called all other Nations aliens, or strangers, and because they were hated and maligned by all other Nations, therefore they called all professed strangers enemies; so the word is used (Isa. 1.7.) Your land strangers shall devour; that is, enemies shall invade and prevail over you (Psalm. 144.7.) Deliver me out of the hand of strange Children, or out of the hand of strangers; that is,1 out of the hand of mine enemies: The Latin word Alienus, is often put for Hostis, and the Roman Orator telleth us, That he who is now called a stranger, was called an enemy by our Ancestors. The reason was, because strangers proved unkind to, yea turned enemies against those that entertained them: As formerly Kings were called Tyrants, but because many Kings oppressed their people, therefore now oppressing Princes only are called Tyrants. So then, to say no stranger passed among them, is as much as to say, no enemy, none to molest or afflict, passed among them.
Strangers are here taken under a double notion: First, no ⟨p. 84⟩stranger, that is no enemy: To cleare which notion of the word Stranger, we must remember that as the Grecians (conceiting themselves the best bred people in the World) called all other Nations Barbarians; so the people of Israel, the stock of Abraham (being Gods peculiar Covenant-people) called all other Nations aliens, or strangers, and because they were hated and maligned by all other Nations, therefore they called all professed strangers enemies; so the word is used (