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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 22
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.
Further, by a Synecdoche, the Sword is taken for all manner of evil and trouble;1 whatsoever hurts or afflicts is comprehended under the notion of a Sword (Luke 1.35,) Old Simeon tells the holy Virgin in his song, Also a Sword shall pass through thy soul; his meaning is not, that she should be cut off in War, by the hand of the Soldier, or in peace, by the sentence of the Judge, but that sore troubles and afflictions like a sharp Sword should pierce her soul.
Further, by a Synechdoche, the Sword is taken for all manner of evill and trouble;1 whatsoever hurts or afflicts is comprehended under the notion of a Sword (Luke 1.35,) Old Simeon tells the holy Virgin in his song, Also a Sword shall passe through thy soule; his meaning is not, that she should be cut off in Warr, by the hand of the Souldier, or in peace, by the sentence of the Judge, but that sore troubles and afflictions like a sharpe Sword should pierce her soule.
- 1Quicquid pungit & percutit, & torquet, & cruciat, in scripturis sanctis gladius appellaturs Hieron. in cap. ult. Isa.
Here the Sword may be taken either for the Sword of War, ⟨p. 107⟩or of Peace, or for any evil, that befalls the Wicked Man.
Here the Sword may be taken either for the Sword of War, ⟨p. 107⟩or of Peace, or for any evill, that befalls the Wicked Man.