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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.
Secondly, Or, as others thus, He turneth the night, that is, he changeth the night into day,1 he takes away the dark and close covers of their sins, and makes them as manifest as the light; Now, as the Apostle saith (Eph. 5.13.) That which maketh manifest, is light; If God were not light, he could not bring to light the hidden things of darkness, nor manifest the counsels of the heart.
- 1Simul atque mutavit noctum &c. Jun. i. e. Lucem protulit, qua revelantur omnia in judicio ejus. Id.
Thirdly thus, Therefore he knoweth their works, and when the night is turned, he destroyeth them; that is, they are destroyed and perish as soon and as easily as the day takes place of the night; or as soon as the night is turned into day, so soon doth the Lord destroy them, he can quickly make an end of them, he can destroy them with the morning light.
We render, and I judge that best, He overturneth them (their persons) in the night; and so Elihu points at the season, or time, of Gods breaking and overthrowing them, he doth it in the night. We may take it strictly, as in the case of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, (Exod. 12.29.) as also in that of Belshazzar, (Dan. 5.30.) or, in the night, that is, suddenly, unexpectedly; Though a man be destroyed in the day, yet if it be done suddenly, he looking for no such matter, we may say it was done in the night; because then men are most secure: This way of expressing an unlooked for evil, the coming of in the night, was opened at the twentieth verse, therefore I shall not stay upon it, He overturneth them in the night.