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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.
So we translate; yet the particle which we render, as, may (here according to its frequent use else-where) carry in it a reason, He strikes them because they are wicked; so some read the text, not as we by way of similitude, how God striketh them, but as giving an account why God striketh them, even because they are wicked men. Mr Broughton saith, For the wicked he maketh plentiful riddance of them, which hath a good sense in it, but takes somewhat too great a liberty with the original text; And because the reason of this striking is held forth in the verses following, it is more distinct to say he strikes them (not because they are wicked ⟨p. 693⟩men, but) as wicked men; that is, as wicked men use to be strucken, or as they use to be proceeded against in a way of Justice. God striketh the mighty men (of whom he spake before) as common offenders or malefactors; Though they are great on earth, yea though they are (in title) Gods upon earth, yet God strikes them as the basest of wicked men, they shall not only dye (as 'tis said, Psal: 82.7.) or fall like one of the Princes, but they shall dye like the worst of men, like wicked men.
So we translate; yet the particle which we render, as, may (here according to its frequent use else-where) carry in it a reason, He strikes them because they are wicked; so some read the text, not as we by way of similitude, how God striketh them, but as giving an account why God striketh them, even because they are wicked men. Mr Broughton saith, For the wicked he maketh plentifull riddance of them, which hath a good sense in it, but takes somewhat too great a liberty with the original text; And because the reason of this striking is held forth in the verses following, it is more distinct to say he strikes them (not because they are wicked ⟨p. 693⟩men, but) as wicked men; that is, as wicked men use to be strucken, or as they use to be proceeded against in a way of Justice. God striketh the mighty men (of whom he spake before) as common offenders or malefactors; Though they are great on earth, yea though they are (in title) Gods upon earth, yet God strikes them as the basest of wicked men, they shall not only dye (as 'tis sayd, Psal: 82.7.) or fall like one of the Princes, but they shall dye like the worst of men, like wicked men.