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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.
Vers. 7. I said, days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom;
Vers. 7. I said, dayes should speak, and multitude of yeares should teach wisdome;
Or, as the text may be rendered, let days speak; 1days shall not be hindered by me from speaking, let days speak their fill. But what meaneth he, when he saith, let days speak? how can days speak; 'tis an elegance in Rhetoric, when that which belongs to a person, is ascribed to a thing, as here speech to time, let days speak; that is, let those who number many days, who have lived ⟨p. 46⟩and seen many days, let them speak; they who have lived most days on earth, are yet indeed (as Bildad told Job, Chap. 8.9.) but of yesterday, and so have lived, as it were, but a day; yet, according to common account, some men are so very old, that you may call them days, and to them we may well say, let Days speak. 2We read of one who was called John of Times, because he had lived (if the Records spake true) three hundred years and more. An old man is a man of days; and thus Elihu might say, let days, that is, old men speak.
Or, as the text may be rendred, let dayes speak; 1dayes shall not be hindred by me from speaking, let dayes speak their fill. But what meaneth he, when he saith, let dayes speak? how can dayes speak; 'tis an elegancy in Rhetorick, when that which belongs to a person, is ascribed to a thing, as here speech to time, let dayes speak; that is, let those who number many dayes, who have lived ⟨p. 46⟩and seene many dayes, let them speak; they who have lived most dayes on earth, are yet indeed (as Bildad told Job, Chap. 8.9.) but of yesterday, and so have lived, as it were, but a day; yet, according to common account, some men are so very old, that you may call them dayes, and to them we may well say, let Dayes speak.