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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 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.
We translate metaphorically, so the word signifies not a hand, but a branch; because a branch or bough of a Tree puts forth from the body of it, as the hand or arm is stretched from the body of a man; by this branch we may understand, either of those two things noted before;
We translate metaphorically, so the word signifies not a hand, but a branch; because a branch or bough of a Tree puts forth from the body of it, as the hand or arme is stretcht from the body of a man; by this branch we may understand, either of those two things noted before;
First, The estate of the wicked man; for that is as a branch shooting and growing out from him;
Or secondly, The designs and counsels of the wicked man; they also are branches sprouting from the corrupt stock of his heart: and so this clause is of the same sense with the former, It shall be accomplished before his time, his branch shall not be green: That is, he shall not prosper in any thing he possesseth, or undertaketh.
Or secondly, The designes and counsels of the wicked man; they also are branches sprouting from the corrupt stock of his heart: and so this clause is of the same sense with the former, It shall be accomplished before his time, his branch shall not be green: That is, he shall not prosper in any thing he possesseth, or undertaketh.