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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 21-22
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.
It was said in that former part of this Chapter (where Elihu spake of the wind) That the winds are the Brooms of Heaven, they sweep the Heavens, they drive away the Clouds, the mists and fogs which dull and obfuscate the air. The expression here in the Text sorts well with that Metaphor, The wind passeth and cleanseth them, that is, the wind passing through the air, cleanseth it from those Clouds, and so causeth the light of the Sun to shine forth freely and fully to us again. The wind at one time gathers the Clouds, and the wind at another time scatters them: The wind is a cleanser. So much is supposed in that Negative expression (Jer. 4 11.) where the Lord threatens to send a high wind from the Wilderness, but not to fan nor to cleanse. I (saith the Lord) will send a high wind; but to what purpose? not for those profitable and comfortable purposes, to fan, cool, and cleanse the Air, but rather to wither and blast the fruits of the Earth, or to overthrow ⟨p. 601⟩and bear down all before it. The text in hand speaks of a comfortable purpose of God in letting the wind out of his Treasures, it bloweth away the Clouds which obstruct the passage of the Light to us: The wind passeth and cleanseth them.
It was said in that former part of this Chapter (where Elihu spake of the wind) That the winds are the Broomes of Heaven, they sweep the Heavens, they drive away the Clouds, the mists and foggs which dull and obfuscate the air. The expression here in the Text sorts well with that Metaphor, The wind passeth and cleanseth them, that is, the wind passing through the air, cleanseth it from those Clouds, and so causeth the light of the Sun to shine forth freely and fully to us again. The wind at one time gathers the Clouds, and the wind at another time scatters them: The wind is a clea•ser. So much is supposed in that Negative expression (Jer. 4 11.) where the Lord threatens to send a high wind from the Wilderness, but not to fan nor to cleanse. I (saith the Lord) will send a high wind; but to what purpose? not for those profitable and comfortable purposes, to fan, cool, and cleanse the Air, but rather to wither and blast the fruits of the Earth, or to overthrow ⟨p. 601⟩