A35535:1684
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
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Vers. 25. His flesh shall be fresher then a child's.
Vers. 25. His flesh shall be fresher then a childes.
By flesh he means the natural flesh of the body; this flesh shall be fresh, yea fresher, and not only fresher then it was before he fell sick in his man-hood, but then it was in his child-hood, fresher then a child's. 1The word which we render comparatively, fresher, signifies to wax soft or tender. 'Tis no where read in the whole Bible but here. Grammarians say, it is compounded of an Hebrew word, which signifies to be green or flourishing (Chap: 8.16.) and of a Syriac word which signifies to increase and grow as a plant; we render it as noting the man mending apace (as some sick men upon recovery do) in his strength and health. He shall be fresh-coloured, who before was pale and wan, he shall be full-fleshed, who before was fallen and lean; so that, when he saith, His flesh shall be fresher then a child's, 'Tis an Elegant hyperbolical expression, to show his perfect recovery from that mortal sickness to health. As if he had said; God will restore him so, that there shall be no scar, nor print, no dregs, nor appearance of his former disease seen upon him. We know how tender and soft, how delicate and fair, the flesh of a little child is, how sweet his countenance is, how full of good blood his veins are, how healthy and strong (as to his time) his whole body is. Thus it shall be with this sick man; His flesh shall be fresher then a child's; he shall be as if he were new-borne, or entered a second time upon the stage of this world. Our spiritual estate of renovation by Christ is set forth as a youthful, or child-like state, as to the purity and perfection of it (Eph: 5.27.) Christ shall present us to himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing. The Church hath her sin-spots and wrinkles now in her militancy; but when Christ shall present the Church at last triumphantly to himself, then as himself was ever without spot or wrinkle, so shall the Church be. Her flesh shall indeed be fresher then a child's, being perfectly recovered out of her spiritual sickness.