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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. 8. There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding.
There's the reason of it; we render the first word of this eight verse by the Adversative particle (But) there is a spirit in man; it is usually rendered by the Affirmative particle, verily, truly, or indeed. Mr Broughton saith, Certes a spirit is in sad man.
These is some difference in opinion about this spirit affirmed to be in man. Divers expound Elihu intending the Spirit of God; there is a spirit; that is, the divine Spirit, the holy Spirit of God, or God the Spirit is in man.1 One of the Greek translations puts it into the text; Surely the Spirit of God is in man; and the Chaldee paraphrase gives it in a like expression; Surely there is a prophetic spirit in the son of man, or, in the sons of men. Some are induced to this interpretation, because it would be (say they) but a cold argument to commend what he had to say for the rectifying Job, by telling him that man hath a reasonable soul, which is common to all men. Yet I rather conceive that in this first part of the verse, the spirit spoken of is the natural spirit of man, which in the latter part of the verse he affirms is instructed, by the inspiration of the Almighty, with supernatural light for special services. The word is often used in Scripture to note the reasonable soul, or those powers of the soul which are the vessels of reason, or in which natural reason hath its seat and exercise. There is a power of reasoning in man,