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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.
Thus if in stead of Death-Bringers or destroyers we read Destroyed or those that have been brought to death, the meaning of Elihu in this passage is plain and easy; importing the sick man so sick, that there is scarce a step or but a point between him and those who are actually dead.
Thus if in stead of Death-Bringers or destroyers we read Destroyed or those that have been brought to death, the meaning of Elihu in this passage is plaine and easie; importing the sicke man so sicke, that there is scarce a step or but a poynt between him and those who are actually dead.
But whether we take the word in this passive sense, and translate The Destroyed, or in the active, as we, and translate destroyers, thereby understanding either Angels in special, or diseases in General sent by God to destroy or take away the life of the sick man; which way soever of these, I say, we expound the word, it yields a clear sense as to the scope of the text, and as to the truth of it, (upon the matter) the very same. His life draweth nigh to the destroyers.
But whether we take the word in this passive sence, and translate The Destroyed, or in the active, as we, and translate destroyers, thereby understanding either Angels in speciall, or diseases in Generall sent by God to destroy or take away the life of the sicke man; which way soever of these, I say, we expound the word, it yeilds a cleare sence as to the scope of the text, and as to the truth of it, (upon the matter) the very same. His life draweth nigh to the destroyers.
Hence note.