An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
Author: Joseph Caryl

An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666

[16], 1036, [26] p. · 442k words · Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 31-33

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Further, the Reader may take notice, that three of these four Stars or Constellations, as expressed in our Translation, Pleiades, Orion, Arcturus, are not literally in the Hebrew Text; nor were they known by those names, when either Job or the Pen-man of this book lived, but were long after brought into use by the learned Grecians, and from them derived unto us; and we make use of these names, according to the received opinion, expounding the Hebrew names by them.

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I shall not stay here in opening their derivations or significations in either language, having done it already at the ninth verse of the ninth Chapter of this book, where Job himself spake of these constellations, attributing this glory to God, that he it is, who makes Arcturus, Orion, Pleiades, and the Chambers of the South, which last are supposed to be the same with Mazzaroth here in this verse.

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Vers. 31. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?

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That is, canst thou stop their rising, or the giving forth of their influences, which open the earth by a kindly warmth, & cause grass and corn, herbs and flowers, plants and trees of all sorts, to spring and put forth? canst thou bind them up from exerting their natural effects and proper operations? certainly thou canst not. He that is bound, cannot do what he would, nor what he could,

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