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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 34-38
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But the Lords manner of speaking, and his purpose in speaking here about the lightning is very considerable, and calls for further discourse. Canst thou send lightnings that they may go, &c. As if the Lord had said, If thou canst not prevail with the clouds to send rain? canst thou prevail with them to send lightning? hast thou the command of thunder and lightning? will the lightnings come forth at thy bidding?
The words may have a double allusion. 1. To the General of an Army commanding his Soldiers, and they going at his word. 2. To the Master of a Family, who gives orders to his Se vaunts, and they go at his word; Canst thou send lightnings that they may go And say unto thee here we are? or, as the Hebrew is, Behold us.
The words may have a double allusion. 1. To the General of an Army commanding his Souldiers, and they going at his word. 2. To the Master of a Family, who gives orders to his Se vants, and they go at his word; Canst thou send lightnings that they may go And say unto thee here we are? or, as the Hebrew is, Behold us.
That manner of speech here we are or behold us, is a description of the most ready obedience, either of Soldiers to their General, or of Servants to their Master. Will the lightnings obey thee thus, and say, here we are? Some expound these words, as supposed to be spoken by the lightnings, upon their return from some former service given them in charge by God, as having dispatched what they were sent for, and were ready to go again. Hence the Latin translator gives it thus;1 That they being returned (or after their return) should say unto thee with reverence, here we are. 1. Ready to go whithersoever thou wilt ⟨p. 262⟩