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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 13-14
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The word which we render unclean, hath a double, yea, a contrary signification, holy and unholy, clean and unclean. They who are holy only in name, are most unholy in heart and life. 1The Scripture often by the same word expresseth things of utmost opposition; so here he calleth those who are most unholy, by a word which signifieth holiness; the Hebrew saith, their life is among the Sodomites. Mr. Broughton translates, and their life with fornicators. Sodomites, who are the most unclean and filthy sinners, worse than fornicators, are expressed by a word, by this word which also signifieth holy, or holy ones (Deut. 23.17.) There shall not be a Sodomites, or, an holy one among you; and therefore as we read of Sodomites in the land, who are sinners against the the law of nature, (1 Kings 14.24.) so according to that law of Moses, we read, 1 Kings 15.12. and Chapter 22.46. as also 2 Kings 23.7. of the destroying of the houses of the Sodomites, and of the removing of Sodomites out of the land. Sodomites being the most abominable of all unclean ones, how unclean are they whose life is among them, or whose life is taken away wi•h them! The Spirit of God doth rightly compare hypocrites to Sodomites and filthy persons, because it proceeds from the heat of some base lust or other that any are hypocrites. 'Tis proper to those who are magnanimous, or of noble spirits, to be open, clear-hearted and ingenious.
The word which we render unclean, hath a double, yea, a contrary signification, holy and unholy, clean and unclean. They who are holy onely in name, are most unholy in heart and life. 1The Scripture often by the same word expresseth things of utmost opposition; so here he calleth those who are most unholy, by a word which signifieth holiness; the Hebrew saith, their life is among the Sodomites. Mr. Broughton translates, and their life with fornicators. Sodomites, who are the most unclean and filthy sinners, worse than fornicators, are expressed by a word, by this word which also signifieth holy, or holy ones (