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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.
Before they were bound in fetters and held in cords,1 but now the sword sh•ll overtake them, and they shall perish or be taken away by the sword: The Hebrew is, they shall pass away by the sword, that is, they shall die. Man is said to pass away by the sword, when the sword doth not pass by him, but smites and kills him, which is a temporal perishing. It is said (Isa. 57.1.) ⟨p. 252⟩The righteous perish, &c. As the righteous perish by a natural death, so they may perish by a violent death, and possibly that may fall upon them when they attend not the providential dispensations of God.
Before they were bound in fetters and held in cords,1 but now the sword sh•ll overtake them, and they shall perish or be taken away by the sword: The Hebrew is, they shall pass away by the sword, that is, they shall die. Man is said to pass away by the swo•d, when the sword doth not pass by him, but smites and kills him, which is a temporal perishing. It is said (Isa. 57.1.) ⟨p. 252⟩The righteous perish, &c. As the righteous perish by a natural death, so they may perish by a violent death, and possibly that may fall upon them when they attend not the providential dispensations of God.
- 1De carcere educentur ad occisionem gladij Aquin. Per gladium iransire dicitur q•i gladio occiditur, Drus.