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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.
First, Some expound it thus, They shall be carried captive out of their own Country; This with the former two make up a perfect Judgement upon any people; Some shall die, or be slain, all shall be troubled and vexed, they shall be at their wits end, and the rest shall be carried away captive.
First, Some expound it thus, They shall be carried captive out of their own Country; This with the former two make up a perfect Judgement upon any people; Some shall die, or be slaine, all shall be troubled and vext, they shall be at their wits end, and the rest shall be carried away captive.
Secondly, They shall pass away; that is, they shall pass into their graves; the form of speech here used may well bear that sense, for death is a passing away, a passing out of this world (Psal: 37.36.1) Lo he passed away and was gone, that is, he died; And that which is as death to the heavens and the earth (their great change when ever it shall be) is called a passing away (Math: 5.18.) Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in ⟨p. 647⟩no wise pass away from the Law till all be fulfilled; that is, the Law shall stand in force as long as the world stands. Thus to pass away is to die. But I conceive, we are to expound this third branch of the Judgement distinctly from the former two, and therefore for as much as we have death in the first words, it will not be proper to take in death here again, or to expound passing away by dying. The third notion, of, they shall pass away, is, they shall run or flee for it, they know not whether, they shall flee for their lives from the danger impending over them. As some shall die, and all be troubled, so not a few shall endeavour to save their lives by flight. Christ in the Gospel foretold the great troubles and afflictions which should come upon Jerusalem, and in them there was a sad concurrence or meeting of these three Judgments in the text. For when after forty years the Romans invaded and ruined their City, many dyed & were destroyed by sword and famine, all the people were troubled; Oh in what a hurry were they to see the Roman Eagle displayed before their Gates! and then they passed away; that is, as many as could, withdrew and got out of the danger. It is reported in history, that before the Siege of that City, a voice was heard in Jerusalem, saying, (Migremus hinc) let us pass from hence, they who believed that warning, departed soon after; And as some passed away before the Judgement came, so when it was come, many were striving to be gone, or to pass away. Therefore Christ admonished them (Math: 24.20.) Pray that your flight be not in the winter, nor on the Sabbath day. I conceive, we are to understand this text distinctly of such a passing away. In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away; they shall do what they can to secure themselves by out-running the danger.