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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.
But, I rather refer them to Jobs friends, being collected or gathered up by Elihu, as the issue of their whole discourse with Job. God thrusteth him down, and not man. This is it, that you mean (saith Elihu) this is the top of your wisdom, the flower and Cream, the sum and substance of all your arguments. All that ye have said is reducible to this one position, God thrusheth him down, not man, and therefore he is a wicked man; This is the wisdom which ye glory to have found.
But, I rather referre them to Jobs friends, being collected or gathered up by Elihu, as the issue of their whole discourse with Job. God thrusteth him downe, and not man. This is it, that you meane (saith Elihu) this is the top of your wisdome, the flower and Creame, the summe and substance of all your arguments. All that ye have sayd is reducible to this one position, God thrusheth him downe, not man, and therefore he is a wicked man; This is the wisdome which ye glory to have found.
Now though we take the words as the sum of what Jobs friends had spoken, collected and drawn together by Elihu, yet there is some variety in opening the sense of them; I will but touch a little at what is offered by several Interpreters, and stay upon that which I conceive most proper to the place.
Now though we take the words as the summe of what Jobs friends had spoken, collected and drawne together by Elihu, yet there is some variety in opening the sence of them; I will but touch a little at what is offered by severall Interpreters, and stay upon that which I conceive most proper to the place.
First, Some conceive that in these words an account is given why Jobs friends gave over speaking, or why they stood silent, either resolving to speak no more, or presuming they had spoken ⟨p. 90⟩