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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.
Further, Some render the text, not as expressing (though supposing) the cry of the poor coming up to God, but as reflecting or turning back in sad effects upon their oppressors; So that they cause the cry of the poor to come upon him; that is, upon every one of them, meaning the wicked themselves; they cause the cry of the poor to come upon them, or pull down vengeance upon their own heads. Several learned Interpreters give that reading, taking the relative Him as a singular put for a plural distributively, upon him, that is, upon every one of them;1 taking also the cry of the poor by a metonymy of the effect, for that punishment which they deserved by their oppression, who caused the poor to cry. As if he had said; By this their wickedness they draw down the wrath of God upon themselves.
Further, Some render the text, not as expressing (though supposing) the cry of the poore coming up to God, but as reflecting or turning back in sad effects upon their oppressors; So that they cause the cry of the poore to come upon him; that is, upon every one of them, meaning the wicked themselves; they cause the cry of the poore to come upon them, or pull downe vengeance upon their owne heads. Severall learned Interpreters give that reading, taking the relative Him as a singular put for a plurall distributively, upon him, that is, upon every one of them;1 taking also the cry of the poore by a metonymie of the effect, for that punishment which they deserved by their oppression, who caused the poore to cry. As if he had sayd; By this their wickedness they draw downe the wrath of God upon themselves.
- 1Inducendo super eorum quemque clamorem tenuis, quum clamorem pauperis exaudit. Jun:
But I shall only pursue our reading, and give the sense accordingly. They cause the cry of the poor to come unto [him] that is, unto God. The cry of the poor is their mournful cry, their pitiful lamenting cry; yet this cry may possibly be, not so much vocal as real, not so much what the poor did make formally or directly to God about their wrongs, but the very wrongs and evils which they suffered cried to the righteous Judge of all the earth. Their affliction had a cry, a voice, a tongue, a thousand tongues in it. They cause the cry of the poor.