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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 › Verse 26
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.
Thirdly, In his Eternity; Neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Surely he is most worthy our consideration who is great, and so great that he cannot be comprehended, and who is eternally great, whose years are numberless.
Vers. 26. Behold God is great.
The word Behold, is here a note both of Attention and admiration; O mind, O admire the greatness of God. God is great. The word rendered great, properly signifies an increasing growing greatness; God is without all increase or growth, being for ever the same,1 yet he may be said to increase, to be magnified and multiplied (as I may say) according to the apprehensions which we have of him. This word bears the signification both of much and many. God is but one and the one-most one, yet (in this sense) many. So the Septuagint renders it here, he hath, or is many, that is, he hath all perfections in him; the lines of all excellency and virtue, of all glory and perfection, centre in God alone. Thus God is much, and God is many; the one God is many, he hath many, he hath all eminences and excellencies bound up, boundlessly in him.