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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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.
Secondly, When they have their slumberings upon their bed; that is (as I apprehend) at the beginning of the night, and break of day (for those are the slumbering times of the night) or in the middle of the night or midnight, for then usually men are fallen into and abide in a deep sleep, or as we render, Then Deep sleep falleth upon men.
Secondly, When they have their slumberings upon their bed; that is (as I apprehend) at the beginning of the night, and break of day (for those are the slumbring times of the night) or in the middle of the night or midnight, for then usually men are fallen into and abide in a deep sleep, or as we render, Then Deep sleep falleth upon men.
Some sleeps, as we may say, are but shallow sleeps, slight sleeps, in comparison of other; Deep sleep is that which we call, Dead sleep. The word here used by Elihu, notes the strongest and the soundest sleep, and therefore 'tis fitly distinguished from slumberings upon the bed.
1There are three words in the Hebrew which signify sleep; whereof the first signifies sleep in general; the second, deep sleep; the third, any slight sleep, which we here translate slumbering. Ordinary sleeping is more then slumbering, and a deep sleep, more then ordinary sleep; we commonly say, such a man is fast asleep, he is, as it were, bound hand and foot. Sleep is the binding of the senses, and so, by consequence the binding of all the members of the body. We often find this distinction in Scripture (Psal: 132.4.) I will not give sleep to mine eyes, nor slumber to my eye-lids; that is, I will not only not give my self to fall asleep, but I will not so much as (according to our manner of speaking in that matter) forget my self. We find the same distinction (Ps: 121.4.) Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.