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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.
This noise may be expounded two ways;
This noise may be expounded two wayes;
First, Of thunder-claps. When Clouds are discharged, their thunder-bolts, like cannon bullets, rattle through the air: Who can understand this noise of his tabernacle? As no man can at all understand the thunder of his power (Chap. 26.14.) so not the All of his powerful thunder. This is a truth, and the text may well take in that noise, the noise of the thunder. But because Elihu speaks professedly and expressly of thunder in the next Chapter (vers. 4.) therefore (I conceive) the noise of his tabernacle, here may be some-what else, or less than that of thunder, that is, the noise of the winds, breaking out from the tabernacle of God. What a bustling noise, what an out-cry (as I may say) the winds make we all know, especially when they become storms, and are not only winds but tempests. There are sweet gentle gales of wind, which make but a little murmur, or whisper in the air, we can scarce hear their voice; but some winds roar, some winds come little short of thunder, for noise and loudness, and I suppose Elihu chiefly intends this noise, by The noise Of his tabernacle.
First, Of thunder-claps. When Clouds are discharged, their thunder-bolts, like cannon bullets, rattle through the air: Who can understand this noise of his tabernacle? As no man can at all understand the thunder of his power (Chap. 26.14.) so not the All of his powerful thunder. This is a truth, and the text may well take in that noise, the noise of the thunder. But because Elihu speakes professedly and expresly of thunder in the next Chapter (vers. 4.) therefore (I conceive) the noise of his tabernacle, here may be some-what else, or less than that of thunder, that is, the noise of the winds, breaking out from the tabernacle of God. What a busseling noise, what an out-cry (as I may say) the winds make we all know, especially when they become stormes, and are not only winds but tempests. There are sweet gentle gales of wind, which make but a little murmur, or whisper in the air, we can scarce hear their voice; but some winds roar, some winds come little short of thunder, for noise and lowdness, and I suppose Elihu chiefly intends this noise, by The noise Of his tabernacle.