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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 32-33
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that the light of divine knowledge, what to believe, and what to practise, was declining, and ready to go down, though they thought it was but noon with them, and the day very clear. For as the famine threatened (vers. 11.) is expounded upon the place, by the Prophet himself, not to be a famine of bread, and a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord; so the darkness threatened in this 9th verse, is not to be restrained to the loss of their worldly liberties and comforts, but extended to those which were spiritual and divine, the failing of vision, and the removing of the light of the Word. And as in this Prophet we find the light departing from the People, so in the third of Micah (vers. 6, 7.) we find God commanding the light not to shine to the Prophets (the false prophets he means there, for so he describeth them, vers. 5.) Therefore shall night be unto you (the prophets who deceive my people, who teach them vanity, and lead them to Idolatry and superstition; therefore, I say, shall night be unto you) that ye shall have no vision, and it shall be dark to you that you shall not divine, and the Sun shall go down over the Prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. What the Lord means by all this, you have expressed in the close of the 7th verse, There is no answer of God, that is, God doth not now any more manifest his mind and will by the Prophets, that they might manifest his will unto the People. I close this point with the renewal of my former admonition; Let us therefore take heed •e provoke not the Lord to command this light not to shine, either to Prophets or People, in our Horizon.
that the light of divine knowledge, what to believe, and what to practise, was declining, and ready to go down, though they thought it was but noon with them, and the day very clear. For as the famine threatned (vers. 11.) is expounded upon the place, by the Prophet himself, not to be a famine of bread, and a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord; so the darkness threatened in this 9th verse, is not to be restrained to the loss of their worldly liberties and comforts, but extended to those which were spiritual and divine, the failing of vision, and the removing of the light of the Word. And as in this Prophet we find the light departing from the People, so in the third of Micah (vers. 6, 7.) we find God commanding the light not to shine to the Prophets (the false prophets he meanes there, for so he describeth them, vers. 5.) Therefore shall night be unto you (the prophets who deceive my people, who teach them vanity, and lead them to Idolatry and superstition; therefore, I say, shall night be unto you) that ye shall have no vision, and it shall be dark to you that you shall not divine, and the Sun shall go down over the Prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. What the Lord means by all this, you have exprest in the close of the 7th verse, There is no answer of God, that is, God doth not now any more manifest his mind and will by the Prophets, that they might manifest his will unto the People. I close this point with the renewal of my former admonition; Let us therefore take heed e provoke not the Lord to command this light not to shine, either to Prophets or People, in our Hoizon.