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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.
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.
- 1Substraxit de•u stillas aqua rum, sc• ex mari, flumini•us •• loc is humidis, quae fundunt pluviam ad nubeni ejus. Haustus vapour ex aqua cogitur in nubem, quae dainde sundit pluviam. Merl: Qui ausert stillas pluviae. Vulg.Substraxit de•u stillas aqu• rum, sc• ex mari, flumini•us •• loc is humidis, quae fundunt pluviam ad nubeni ejus. Haustus vapor ex aqua cogitur in nubem, quae dainde sundit pluviam. Merl: Qui ausert stillas pluviae. Vulg.
Secondly, The word may very well express, according to other texts of Scripture, the putting forth of the power of God in stopping, staying keeping back and with-holding rain from the ea••h, when •od hath drawn water from the earth, he can hold it fr•m the ea••h as long as he pleaseth. The Chaldee Pa aphrase saith, He forbids the drops to water the earth, or he sends forth a proh bition to the clouds that they give no water. The vulgar Latin speaks to the same sense, who takes away drops of rain, that is, from the earth. Mr. Broughton renders, he withdraws