A35537:1882
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 12-13
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.
That is, wheresoever there is Earth, or a World,1 habitable or unhabitable, thither, or so far doth God send the Clouds in his service, or for the executing of his will.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] orbis pars terra habitabilu, Graecè [Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉 orbis pars terra habitabilu, Graecè 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
Further, when he saith, Upon the face of the World, his meaning is, upon the outside or uppermost part of the World; and because the Heavens, even the uppermost Heavens are a part of the world, with which the Clouds have nothing to do, their business lying here below, therefore (I conceive) Elihu determines it expressly, in the Earth. The Clouds are not raised or made for the use and service of the world above, but of the world below. They do whatsoever he Commandeth them upon the face of the World in the Earth.
Further, when he saith, Ʋpon the face of the World, his meaning is, upon the outside or uppermost part of the World; and because the Heavens, even the uppermost Heavens are a part of the world, with which the Clouds have nothing to do, their business lying here below, therefore (I conceive) Elihu determines it expresly, in the Earth. The Clouds are not raised or made for the use and service of the world above, but of the world below. They do whatsoever he Commandeth them upon the face of the World in the Earth.