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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 35 › Verses 15-16
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Thirdly, To know, is to be under a due sense of what we know: We may know a thing, and consider it, yet not have a feeling of it. I conceive we are to understand the word know here, in these two latter senses; He knoweth it not; that is, he doth not consider, nor hath he a due sense, either of the defect of his own graces, that his faith acts not as it ought, that his trust performs ⟨p. 128⟩not its part as it should; nor doth he know the anger of God in this visitation; that is, he knoweth not, nor considereth, the scope and meaning of God in this angry dispensation. Yet he knoweth it not In great extremity.
Thirdly, To know, is to be under a due sense of what we know: We may know a thing, and consider it, yet not have a feeling of it. I conceive we are to understand the word know here, in these two latter senses; He knoweth it not; that is, he doth not consider, nor hath he a due sense, either of the defect of his own graces, that his faith acts not as it ought, that his trust performes ⟨p. 128⟩not its part as it should; nor doth he know the anger of God in this visitation; that is, he knoweth not, nor considereth, the scope and meaning of God in this angry dispensation. Yet he knoweth it not In great extremity.
1The word signifieth any kind of increase (Mal. 4.2.) They shall go forth, and grow up as the Calves of the Stall. So 'tis used (Jer. 50.11.) Because ye are grown fat, we put in the Margin, big or corpulent. (Lev. 13.5.) If the Plague (of Leprosy he means) increase, grow great, and spread it self, then &c. Jobs affliction was a great one at first, and it grew greater afterwards: He was in great extremity, or in extremities; of what? in great extremity, First, of loss and poverty in his Estate; Secondly, of pain and torment in his Body; Thirdly, of grief and anguish in his Soul: In all these he suffered, and suffered extremely, or in great extremity. Mr. Broughton renders, Because Job knoweth not this great plenty, namely, of sorrows, which compass him about.