A35537:1916
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.
For whose Land? Some refer it to the Cloud, that is,1 for the Land out of which the Cloud was made; for the Vapours which arise out of the Land by the attractive power of the Heavens make Clouds. As if the meaning were, he causeth the Cloud to fall down upon that Land out of which it was raised: whereas oftentimes a Cloud is made of Vapours raised from one Land or Country, and by the command of God is carried to another Land or Country very far off.
For whose Land? Some refer it to the Cloud, that is,1 for the Land out of which the Cloud was made; for the Vapours which arise out of the Land by the attractive power of the Heavens make Clouds. As if the meaning were, he causeth the Cloud to fall down upon that Land out of which it was raised: whereas oftentimes a Cloud is made of Vapours raised from one Land or Country, and by the command of God is carryed to another Land or Country very far off.
- 1Pronomen (sua) alii ad nubem reserunt, ut dicat, pro terra in qua genita juit. Drus.
But I rather take the Antecedent to his to be God himself; His Land, that is, Gods Land, or the Land of God. But then the Question is, what are we to understand by his Land? hath God a Land distinct from others, as the Princes of the World have? are not all Lands his? I answer,