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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 36 › Verses 18-20
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.
There is also a third consideration, to show the unavoidableness of the wrath of God, namely, because there is no fleeing no making an escape from it. Some indeed are so angry that you cannot satisfy them with a ransom, and so powerful that no strength can deliver you from their power, yet possibly you may make an escape and hide from them, you may get out of the way and lye out of sight; but saith Elihu, that will not do neither in this case, (v. 20.) desire not the night when people are cut off in their place; the night or darkness will be no cover to thee from the wrath of an angry God. Thus you have the sum and substance of this admonition to Job, Beware, because there is wrath, and that wrath of God so terrible that nothing can deliver from it, no ransom, no power, nor can we deliver our selves by flight, or by darkness.
There is also a third consideration, to shew the unavoidableness of the wrath of God, namely, because there is no sleeing no making an escape from it. Some indeed are so angry that you cannot satisfy them with a ransom, and so powerful that no strength can deliver you from their power, yet possibly you may make an escape and hide from them, you may get out of the way and lye out of sight; but saith Elihu, that will not do neither in this case, (v. 20.) desire not the night when people are cut off in their place; the night or darkness will be no cover to thee from the wrath of an angry God. Thus you have the sum and substance of this admonition to Job, Beware, because there is wrath, and that wrath of God so terrible that nothing can deliver from it, no ransom, no power, nor can we deliver our selves by flight, or by darkness.
I shall now open the words more distinctly.
1Verse 18. Because there is wrath, beware, &c.