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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 27-28
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.
That is, God (as it were) coins and mints out the water into drops of rain: As a mighty mass of gold or silver is minted out into small pieces, so a huge body of water is minted out into small drops; that's the sum of these words according to our rendering. The Hebrew word rendered, He maketh small, hath a two-fold signification, and that hath caused a three-fold translation of these words.
That is, God (as it were) coynes and mints out the water into drops of rain: As a mighty masse of gold or silver is minted out into small pieces, so a huge body of water is minted out into small drops; that's the sum of these words according to our rendring. The Hebrew word rendred, He maketh small, hath a two-fold signification, and that hath caused a three-fold translation of these words.
First, It signifieth to take away, o•, to withdraw; according to this signification of the word,1 a two-fold power of God is held forth about the drops of water.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]ademit, substraxit.〈non-Latin alphabet〉ademit, substraxit.
First,1 The power of God in drawing the water up from the Earth to make rain, for that in Nature (as we shall see afterwards) is the cause of •ain; God draws up the water from the Earth, which he sends down upon the Earth: he draws up the vapours, and the vapours become a Cloud, and the Cloud is dissolved into rain.