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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 36 › Verse 7
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Fifthly, The Scripture speaks of a delighting eye, or of an eye of complacency; and thus also the Lords eye is upon the righteous, he beholdeth them with high content, he is, as I may say, taken with them, (Isa. 66.1.) To him will I look that is poor. Among all objects, none so pleasant or pleasing to God as the poor. What poor doth he mean? surely the righteous poor, or the poor in spirit, (as was showed upon the former verse) let such a one be whom he will, to him will I look, mine eye is greatly pleased to behold such a one. The word used by Elihu in this Text, doth further clear it, while he saith, He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous. How pleasant is any object to our eyes from which we cannot withdraw or take them off, but must be continually feeding them upon it! Some cannot take off their eyes from unlawful wanton objects, because they are so delighted in them, they have as the Apostle Peter speaks, eyes full of adultery, and such can never glut their eyes with adulterous objects. Now certainly the Lord is exceedingly taken with the beauty, the spiritual beauty of a righteous person, with the comeliness, the spiritual comeliness of those that are godly, when the Text saith, He withdraweth not his eyes from them, but carries them (as it were) always in his eye. Among the Latins, to carry one in our eye is an expression of singular high content, delight and pleasure taken in such a person. We may say of all the righteous, the Lord carrieth them in his eye, and therefore he is highly pleased and delighted with them.
Fifthly, The Scripture speaks of a delighting eye, or of an eye of complacency; and thus also the Lords eye is upon the righteous, he beholdeth them with high content, he is, as I may say, taken with them, (Isa. 66.1.) To him will I look that is poor. Among all objects, none so pleasant or pleasing to God as the poor. What poor doth he mean? surely the righteous poor, or the poor in spirit, (as was shewed upon the former verse) let such a one be whom he will, to him will I look, mine eye is greatly pleased to behold such a one. The word used by Elihu in this Text, doth further clear it, while he saith, He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous. How pleasant is any object to our eyes from which we cannot withdraw or take them off, but must be continually feeding them upon it! Some cannot take off their eyes from unlawfull wanton objects, because they are so delighted in them, they have as the Apostle Peter speaks, eyes full of adultery, and such can never glut their eyes with adulterous objects. Now certainly the Lord is exceedingly taken with the beauty, the spiritual beauty of a righteous person, with the comliness, the spiritull comliness of those that are godly, when the Text saith, He withdraweth not his eyes from them, but carries them (as it were) alwayes in his eye. Among the Latines, to carry one in our eye is an expression of singular high content, delight and pleasure taken in such a person. We may say of all the righteous, the Lord carrieth them in his eye, and therefore he is highly pleased and delighted with them.