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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.
What pit? The word is rendered variously. First thus,1 he keeps ⟨p. 328⟩back his soul from corruption. 2The word is used for corrupting by sin (Gen. 6.12.) And God locked-upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth; that is, all men were grown wicked and stark naught. In the very next verse (vers. 13.) The same word is used to denote corrupting by punishment due to sin; Behold I will destroy (or corrupt) them with the earth; that is, I will destroy the face of the earth, or deface the beauty of the earth, and I will also destroy all men from off the face of the earth.3 Secondly, the Septuagint render, He spares his soul from death. Thirdly, the Chaldee Paraphrase (as we) He prohibits his soul from the pit; these three, corruption, death, and the pit are of near alliance; and the same word in the Hebrew tongue signifieth corruption, the pit, and death, The pit (or grave) is the place of corruption and the seat or house of death. We find the pit and destruction put together (Psal. 55.23.) they shall go to the pit of destruction; So then the same word may well serve to signify a pit, corruption and death; because in the pit dead bodies or carcasses putrefy and corrupt. Yet David prophesying of Christ speaks his assurance of escaping corruption,4 though not the pit or grave. (Psal. 16.10.) Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption, or the pit. It is this word; that is, thou wilt not suffer him to corrupt in the pit of the grave; though being dead was buried and laid in the pit, yet he did not see corruption in the pit. That is, corruption had no power, no mastery over him; for he loosed the bonds of death (it being impossible that he should be held by them) the third day, yea with the first of that day, or as soon as it might be truly said that it was the third day; Christ was buried in the latter part of the sixth day of the week, and arose early the first day of the week, even when it did but begin to dawn towards the first day of the week. (