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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 23-24
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.
Only, it may seem most suitable, in way of application, to Job, for Elihu to use this word in that restrained sense; Afflicted feeble men do fear him, As if he had said. O Job, thou art a weak man, a man greatly afflicted, thou hast been long under the rod and chastening hand of God, therefore thou oughtest to fear him, and not expostulate the matter with him, as thou hast done. Men do Therefore fear him.
Only, it may seem most sutable, in way of application, to Job, for Elihu to use this word in that restrained sence; Afflicted feeble men do fear him, As if he had said. O Job, thou art a weak man, a man greatly afflicted, thou hast been long under the rod and chastning hand of God, therefore thou oughtest to fear him, and not expostulate the matter with him, as thou hast done. Men do Therefore fear him.
This illative, Therefore, hath reference (as was intimated) to all that was said in the former verse, yet we may take it specially in ⟨p. 638⟩these two particulars. Therefore men do fear him; Why?
First, Because he is so great, so immense, so incomprehensible, so powerful, so just, because he hath such plenty of justice, therefore men do fear him.