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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 30
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1The flame shall dry up his branches; Some, by his branches understand his Children, they shall dye, Children are branches, they stand, saith the Psalmist, like Olive plants, or branches round about the Table of a man fearing God: Such branches Job had, but they were dried up, and probably Eliphaz might give him a rub upon that sore, in this expression.
1The flame shall dry up his branches; Some, by his branches understand his Children, they shall dye, Children are branches, they stand, saith the Psalmist, like Olive plants, or branches round about the Table of a man fearing God: Such branches Job had, but they were dryed up, and probably Eliphaz might give him a rub upon that soare, in this expression.
- 1Sunt qui eius liber•s intelligunt sed no• allegori•è intelligimus omnem ejus splendorem opes, &c. Me•c.
Secondly, Others by branches understand His followers and flatterers, who live upon him as branches upon a Tree; but to pass these restrained Interpretations:1 I conceive we may take the Branch in general, for all that belongs to a wicked man, his Children, his Friends, his followers, his flatterers, his Honour, his Riches, his Power; all these look green, and are his beautiful branches; and all these the flame dryeth up. The Prophet complains (Joel 1.19.) O Lord to thee will I cry, for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the Wilderness, and the flame hath burnt all the Trees of the Field: The flame, of which he cries out, and which did not only dry the branches, but devour the Trees of the Field, was the extreme heat of the Sun; which as it usually sends out refreshing beams, so when God is angry, it can send out scorching flames, and those beams, which tempered with showers of rain, nourish the Earth, in the long withholding of rain scorch the Earth. And what then befell the Trees properly taken, and their