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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 11-12
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.
Here contraries are set one over against another, for their fuller illustration. If they obey not; that is, if those righteous men spoken of before (vers. 7.) obey not. What it is not to obey, is clear by what I said was to obey, in opening the former verse. I shall only take notice, that in this latter part it is not said, If they obey not, and serve him not, but only, if they obey not; and I conceive, Elihu saith no more, or proceeds no further, because they who deny obedience, will certainly deny service; therefore he stops at that.
If they obey not.
They who are good in their state, may often fail in doing that which is good; for of those this Text yet speaks, and is generally interpreted. The Hypocrite in heart is spoken of in the next verse, but here Elihu is speaking of the righteous, and because he is so, therefore by this disobedience cannot be meant an obstinate rebellion, but a sloth or carelessness in attending to the Call of God, for the amendment of some evil in their lives. If they obey not:
They who are good in their state, may often fail in doing that which is good; for of those this Text yet speaks, and is generally interpreted. The Hypocrite in heart is spoken of in the next verse, but here Elihu is speaking of the righteous, and because he is so, therefore by this disobedience cannot be meant an obstinate rebellion, but a sloth or carelesness in attending to the Call of God, for the amendment of some evil in their lives. If they obey not: