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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 15 › Verse 32
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.
1His branch.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Sig. & manum & ramum, rami sunt veluti brachia & manus arboris.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Sig. & manum & ramum, rami sunt veluti brachia & manus arboris.
Or his hand shall not be green; so the word signifies properly: And, that some understand in a figure, his hand shall not be green; that is, himself shall be unapt, and unfit for ⟨p. 189⟩work. When an arm is dried up, or a hand palsied, it is unserviceable: The hand of a godly man is green, he is laborious, and fit for labour; the hand of the wicked man, as it is always sinfully dried up, in reference to the doing of any good, so it is often judicially dried up lest it should do hurt: his hand shall not be green, that is, he shall not have power to do that evil which he would: When Jeroboam put forth his hand from the Altar, &c. his arm dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him (1 Kings 13.4.) His hand, his arm, was not green, he could not use it to hurt the Prophet (Zech. 11.17.) The wicked Idol Shepherd is threatened, His arm shall clean be dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened: that is, He shall neither have counsel, nor strength, he shall neither be able to advise, nor to act; his eye shall be darkened, so that he shall not be able to see his way; his arm shall be dried up, he shall not be able to attain his end (Psal. 75.5.) None of the men of might have found their hands; as we say of a man that goes lamely or lazily, He cannot find his feet; so of a man that acts lamely and lazily, or of a Soldier that fights faintly and cowardly, He cannot find his hands; or in the language of the Text, His arm or hand is not green.