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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 37 › Verses 3-5
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.
Our translation saith, after it a voice roareth, that is, after the Lightning, or as soon as it hath Lightened a voice roareth. Our experience teacheth us that Thunder followeth the Lightning; which we are not to understand according to the nature of the thing, for so Thunder and Lightning are, as it were, born and brought forth together; there is no difference between them at all in time, but there is a difference as to order, at least as to order in our apprehension; and so the one may be said to come after the other, the Thunder after the Lightning; as when a gun, lesser or greater, is discharged, if you are at a distance you may see the fire a considerable time before you hear the report,1 and possibly the bullet hits the mark before the sound hits to the ear, though the discharge be made in a moment; which some say is because the eye is a quicker sense than the ear, but rather, because light doth in a moment strike through the air, but the sound comes by certain circuits, & fetcheth a longer compass before it comes at the ear, as hath ⟨p. 455⟩been touched lately before, as also at the 26 verse of the 28 chapter. And besides this, or any other reason of the thing in nature, constant experience teacheth us that we see the light first and then hear the voice; and therefore Elihu speaks here very congruously to both, After it a voice roareth. And as the reason of this in nature (as was showed) is that more speedy passage of the light through the air than of the sound, so a moral reason may be given of it, which take in this observation.
Our translation saith, after it a voice roareth, that is, after the Lightning, or as soon as it hath Lightned a voice roareth. Our experience teacheth us that Thunder followeth the Lightning; which we are not to understand according to the nature of the thing, for so Thunder and Lightning are, as it were, born and brought forth together; there is no difference between them at all in time, but there is a difference as to order, at least as to order in our apprehension; and so the one may be said to come after the other, the Thunder after the Lightning; as when a gun, lesser or greater, is discharged, if you are at a distance you may see the fire a considerable time before you hear the report,1 and possibly the bullet hits the mark before the sound hits to the ear, though the discharge be made in a moment; which some say is because the eye is a quicker sence than the ear, but rather, because light doth in a moment strike through the air, but the sound comes by certain circuits, & fetcheth a longer compass before it comes at the ear, as hath