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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 4
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.
As if he had said, besides, or above all this, that thou hast uttered vain knowledge, words that cannot profit, thou hast also cast off the fear of God, &c. The word which we translate to cast off, signifies to make void, to scatter, to dissolve, 1to break in pieces; to make as nothing, or to make nothing of. It is often used in Scripture, for breaking the Commandments of God, employing such a breach as makes the Commandments void, which is the proper character of an evil heart; A godly man may sin against the Commandments, but a wicked man would sin away the Commandments; he would repeal the Law of God, and enact his own lusts: Such is the force of the word here, Thou castest off fear.
As if he had said, besides, or above all this, that thou hast uttered vaine knowledge, words that cannot profit, thou hast also cast off the feare of God, &c. The word which we translate to cast off, signifies to make voyd, to scatter, to dissolve, 1to break in peices; to make as nothing, or to make nothing of. It is often used in Scripture, for breaking the Commandements of God, imploying such a breach as makes the Commandements voyd, which is the proper character of an evill heart; A godly man may sin against the Commandements, but a wicked man would sinne away the Commandements; he would repeale the Law of God, and enact his owne lusts: Such is the force of the word here, Thou castest off feare.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Labefactasti, irritum fecisti, dissolvisti, fregisti,〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Labefactasti, irritum fecisti, dissolvisti, fregisti,
There is a natural fear, and a spiritual fear; we are not to understand this Text of a natural fear (which is a trouble of spirit, arising upon the apprehension of some approaching evil) but of a spiritual: Fear is here put alone, but we are to take it with its best adjunct, the fear of God; for as the word sometimes is put alone, to signify the word of God, as if there were no word but his; and as the word Commandments is put alone, to note the Commandments of God, as if no Commandments deserved the name, but only the Commandments of God, so fear is put alone, by way of excellency, for the fear of God; as importing, that his fear is excellent, and no fear to be desired but his. This Divine fear comes under a double notion: