A35537:1691
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.
1The words may be read, God thundereth marvels; 'tis in the plural number: We render well, God thundereth marvellously; but there is a greater Emphasis, taking it in the plural number, God thundereth marvels. Consider thunder and lightning in a proper, or in a metaphorical sense, there are many marvels or wonders in them. Naturalists observe many marvels in natural thunder and lightnings; these sometimes melt the sword without hurt to the scabbard; dissolve the metal, not consuming the purse; break the bones, and not the flesh; these spoil the Wine without staving or breaking the cask; kill or stifle the child in the womb, and not the mother. God thunders marvellously in these things.
1The words may be read, God thundereth marvels; 'tis in the plural number: We render well, God thundereth marveilously; but there is a greater Emphasis, taking it in the plural number, God thundereth marvels. Consider thunder and lightning in a proper, or in a metaphorical sense, there are many marvels or wonders in them. Naturalists observe many marvels in natural thunder and lightnings; these sometimes melt the sword without hurt to the scabbard; dissolve the mettal, not consuming the purse; break the bones, and not the flesh; these spoyl the Wine without staving or breaking the cask; kill or stifle the child in the womb, and not the mother. God thunders marveilously in these things.
- 1Tonat mirabilia. Hebr: Numerus pluralis indicat ingentem admirationem & stuporem mortalium ad vocem tonitrui. Pined.
Again, how many marvellous Judgments hath God wrought by thunder! how often hath he destroyed the enemies of his people, and the blasphemers of his great Name, by thunder and lightning from Heaven! Anastatius the Emperor, an Eutychian persecutor of the Orthodox Christians, was slain by thunder. The History of the Church, speaks of a Christian Legion or Brigade of Christians in the Army of Aurelius the Emperor, who earnestly prayed (the whole Army being in a great strait) that God would appear for their help, and the defeating of the enemy; whereupon the Lod sent rain for their relief, as also thunder and lightning, by which the enemy was discomfited and destroyed: