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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
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.
We have the flame of God in the former clause, and the breath of his mouth in this: Some Interpreters conceive that Eliphaz mentions these two, The flame, and the breath, purposely to put Job in mind, what God had done to him; for we read in the first Chapter of this Book, of the flame of God, a fire from Heaven consuming that branch, his flocks of Sheep, and a breath from God, namely, a mighty strong wind, destroying a more precious branch, his flock of Children: Eliphaz clothes this discourse in such terms as might easily remind and represent to Job, what God had done to him, in the day of his calamity.
We have the flame of God in the former clause, and the breath of his mouth in this: Some Interpreters conceive that Eliphaz mentions these two, The flame, and the breath, purposesy to put Job in minde, what God had done to him; for we read in the first Chapter of this Book, of the flame of God, a fire from Heaven consuming that branch, his flocks of Sheep, and a breath from God, namely, a mighty strong winde, destroying a more precious branch, his flock of Children: Eliphaz cloathes this discourse in such termes as might easily reminde and represent to Job, what God had done to him, in the day of his calamity.
And by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
And by the breath of his mouth shall he goe away.
There is yet a difference among Expositors about the Antecedent to his: His mouth, whose mouth? Most understand it, of the breath of Gods mouth, as hath been hinted already: Some expound it of the breath of the wicked mans own mouth; I shall touch upon both.
There is yet a difference among Expositors about the Antecedent to his: His mouth, whose mouth? Most understand it, of the breath of Gods mouth, as hath been hinted already: Some expound it of the breath of the wicked mans owne mouth; I shall touch upon both.