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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 › Verses 8-10
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.
The word rendered iniquity, signifies a vain, empty thing,1 a thing of nought: so the Chaldee paraphraseth it here, He commands that they return from their evil works, which are like to vanity, and a thing of nought. What is sin, but a kind of nothing? we look for great matters from sin, but it is a vanity, it is (like an Idol) nothing in the world, that is, it is not such a thing as it doth import, or as it promiseth, or as the opinion of men make it to be; Iniquity is no such thing as it pretendeth, or as is pretended. The Lord commandeth that they return from iniquity; that is, from doing that which will profit them nothing at all, or no more than a vain thing, a thing of nothing can. And yet though iniquity be nothing good or profitable, yet 'tis all things evil and hurtful, nor had any thing ever hurt us or been evil to us, had it not been for iniquity. He commandeth that they return from iniquity.
The word rendred iniquity, signifies a vain, empty thing,1 a thing of nought: so the Chaldee paraphraseth it here, He commands that they return from their evil works, which are like to vanity, and a thing of nought. What is sin, but a kind of nothing? we look for great matters from sin, but it is a vanity, it is (like an Idol) nothing in the world, that is, it is not such a thing as it doth import, or as it promiseth, or as the opinion of men make it to be; Iniquity is no such thing as it pretendeth, or as is pretended. The Lord commandeth that they return from iniquity; that is, from doing that which will profit them nothing at all, or no more than a vaine thing, a thing of nothing can. And yet though iniquity be nothing good or profitable, yet 'tis all things evil and hurtfull, nor had any thing ever hurt us or been evil to us, had it not been for iniquity. He commandeth that they return from iniquity.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] habet significationem nihili. — Ab operibus suis malis, quae similia sunt vanitate & nihilo. Chald:〈non-Latin alphabet〉 habet significationem nihili. — Ab operibus suis malis, quae similia sunt vanitate & nihilo. Chald: