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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 29-31
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.
1Here are, First, the Clouds; Secondly, the spreading of them. The word which we translate, spreading, hath a two-fold signification: First, (with the alteration only of a point upon one letter) it signifieth The difference of things in any kind: And then the Text is read, Can any understand the difference of the Clouds, that is, the variety that is among the clouds. The clouds are not all of a likeness, nor all of a bigness; there are clouds of many sorts and sizes: there are clouds which breed snow, and clouds which breed hail, clouds which breed rain, and clouds which breed thunder and lightning. Some clouds are empty, called clouds without rain or water, (Pro. 25.14. Jude, v. 12.) and other clouds are full of water: There is a difference also of clouds as to our sight and view, some are black, some white, some red, some are greenish, others palish clouds, from which various colours and appearances, Prognostics are made of the change of weather, as Christ told the Pharisees (Mat. 16.2, 3.) Naturalists observe very many differences in the clouds, nor is it without wonder, that the clouds which are made all of one matter (vapours drawn from below) should produce such and so many different effects, that (according to this reading) we have reason to put the question, Who can understand the differences of the Clouds? We read it, and that well and full to the Hebrew Text, Who can understand the spreading of the Clouds, or their expansion?
1Here are, First, the Clouds; Secondly, the spreading of them. The word which we translate, spreading, hath a two-fold signification: First, (with the alteration only of a poynt upon one letter) it signifieth The difference of things in any kinde: And then the Text is read, Can any understand the difference of the Clouds, that is, the variety that is among the clouds. The clouds are not all of a likeness, nor all of a bigness; there are clouds of many sorts and sizes: there are clouds which breed snow, and clouds which breed haile, clouds which breed raine, and clouds which breed thunder and lightning. Some clouds are empty, called clouds without raine or water, (