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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
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 ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 31-33
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Surely as thou knowest not the special laws by which I govern the Pleiades, Orion, Mazzaroth and Arcturus, so not the general laws by which the heavens are governed. Knowest thou the Ordinances of heaven? The word here rendered Ordinances, is often rendered in the Psalms statutes, laws, decrees: knowest thou the laws or statutes of heaven?
Surely as thou knowest not the special laws by which I govern the Pleiades, Orion, Mazzaroth and Arcturus, so not the general laws by which the heavens are governed. Knowest thou the Ordinances of heaven? The word here rendred Ordinances, is often rendred in the Psalms statutes, laws, decrees: knowest thou the laws or statutes of heaven?
The word rendered heaven is of the dual number, as Grammarians speak, because, in what part soever of the earth any man stands, the heaven is cut in two parts (as to him) by the Horizon, whereof one part is over him, and the other under him; As there is a heaven above us, so a heaven below us, though wheresoever any man is on earth, heaven is above him. Knowest thou The Ordinances of heaven?
The word rendred heaven is of the dual number, as Grammarians speake, because, in what part soever of the earth any man stands, the heaven is cut in two parts (as to him) by the Horizon, whereof one part is over him, and the other under him; As there is a heaven above us, so a heaven below us, though wheresoever any man is on earth, heaven is above him. Knowest thou The Ordinances of heaven?
Now the Ordinances of heaven may be of two sorts.