A35537:1854
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 9-11
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Fourthly, Others refer this wearying of the cloud, to the command which it receives for the watering of very remote parts of the earth. The Lord saith to this or that cloud, remove far off, go and water such a Country (it may be a hundred, yea, many hundred miles off the place from whence the vapou s were exhaled) and there disburden thy self, or fall down in showers. When the Lord sends the cloud a long journey, we may say, 'tis even wearied, as a man or beast is that hath gone a long journey.
Fourthly, Others refer this wearying of the cloud, to the command which it receives for the watering of very remote parts of the earth. The Lord saith to this or that cloud, •emove far off, go and water such a Countrey (it may be a hundred, yea, many hundred miles off the place from whence the vapou s were exhaled) and there disburden thy self, or fall down in showres. When the Lord sends the cloud a long journey, we may say, 'tis even wearied, as a man or beast is that hath gone a long journey.
1I shall not trouble the reader with that wide interpretation of the Latin translator, rendering thus, The cloud desires corn, or the cloud labours for corn, that is, to make the earth fruitful, and bring forth abundance of corn. Some of the Ancients have taught that there is a kind of natural marriage, between the earth and the clouds, or between the clouds and the corn, or any other fruits of the earth. Rain is the food of the earth, that is, of Fruits and Plants; to which the Prophet (Hos. 2.22.) makes an elegant allusion. But I pass this.
1I shall not trouble the reader with that wide interpretation of the Latine translator, rendring thus, The cloud desires corn, or the cloud labours for corn, that is, to make the earth fruitful, and bring forth abundance of corn. Some of the Ancients have taught that there is a kind of natural marriage, between the earth and the clouds, or between the clouds and the corn, or any other fruits of the earth. Rain is the food of the earth, that is, of Fruits and Plants; to which the Prophet (