A35535:1921
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.
But seeing the Lord there promised to deliver his soul from going into the pit, how is he said here, to bring back his soul from the pit? A man being delivered from going to the pit, cannot be said to be brought back from the pit.
But seeing the Lord there promised to deliver his soule from going into the pit, how is he sayd here, to bring back his soule from the pit? A man being delivered from going to the pit, cannot be sayd to be brought back from the pit.
I answer in two things; the words rendered to bring back his soul from the pit, may be read thus; to turn away his soul from the pit; that is, to preserve him from death. So the Hebrew word is used (Chap: 15.13.) as also (Mal: 2.6.) He walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn away many from iniquity. If we take that rendering of the word, then the expressions in both places bear the same sense. But taking it according to our reading, in which to bring back his soul from the pit, sounds, as if the man had been in the pit already; and it may well be said so, because a man in great affliction, whether of soul or body, is, as it were, dead, or buried alive. For as when God converts a sinner, he (upon the matter) brings him back from hell; so when he delivers him from any grievous sickness, he doth (upon the matter) bring him back from the grave. Heman in spiritual afflictions and soul-desertions, the terrors of the Lord being upon him, called himself free among the dead, like the slain that lye in the grave, ⟨p. 470⟩whom God remembereth no more, and they are cut off from thy hand, (Psal: 88.5.) They that are near the pit of death, are not, much, improperly, called dead, and they that being in such a desperate case are kept from going down to the pit, are not, much, improperly said to be brought back from the pit, or pulled out of it. In which sense we may keep to our own reading; and so to bring back his soul from the pit, notes only the extreme danger wherein he was, whether spiritual or temporal, and Gods graciousness in delivering him from it.