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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.
These words contain either a third higher Title, or the highest commendation of the former two. A messenger, an interpreter, even such a one as is one among a thousand; One is no number, and a thousand is put for the greatest number; then one among a thousand, or one of a thousand, implieth that the one here spoken of is a very rare one; only he that is seldom seen, or found, is one among a thousand; Solomon saith (Eccl: 7.24.) One man among ⟨p. 379⟩a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found. There were very few wise or good men among many when he found but one among a thousand. He might find men in great number, but the number of those that deserved to be called men was very small, so small, that he saith he found but one among a thousand. So that here when Elihu calls the interpreter One among a thousand, he teacheth us that such a messenger, such an interpreter is rarely to be had, or being had is a very rare and excellent one. 'Tis a proverbial speech, with an hyperbole,1 to say of any man, he is one among a thousand; for though we are not to take it arithmetically or strictly, yet one being no number, must needs signify very few, or the smallest number, and a thousand being the greatest whole number must needs signify many, very many or a great number. And therefore to say of this interpreter, he is one among a thousand, must needs import, that even among a thousand men, we can hardly find one who hath a faculty or a competency for this office, or is fit to be honoured and adorned with this Title, An interpreter.
These words containe either a third higher Title, or the highest commendation of the former two. A messenger, an interpreter, even such a one as is one among a thousand; One is no number, and a thousand is put for the greatest number; then one among a thousand, or one of a thousand, implyeth that the one here spoken of is a very rare one; only he that is seldome seen, or found, is one among a thousand; Solomon saith (Eccl: 7.24.) One man among ⟨p. 379⟩a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found. There were very few wise or good men among many when he found but one among a thousand. He might find men in great number, but the number of those that deserved to be called men was very small, so small, that he saith he found but one among a thousand. So that here when Elihu calls the interpreter One among a thousand, he teacheth us that such a messenger, such an interpreter is rarely to be had, or being had is a very rare and excellent one. 'Tis a proverbiall speech, with an hyperbole,