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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
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.
The word rendered clouds is sometimes translated heavens, and so a learned Interpreter gives it here; to which he adds this ⟨p. 272⟩gloss,1 Who hath made the heavens with such wisdom in that number wherein they are? who can number them? The word rendered number signifieth both to number things Arithmetically, and to demonstrate them Logically; and it may be taken in either or both senses here, who can number the clouds in wisdom? that is, who hath wisdom sufficient to tell how many clouds there are? Man hath not arithmetic enough to number them. The clouds are many in their sorts or kinds, and they are many more in their singula••, or (if I may so speak) individuals; there are many sorts of clouds, and there are many of every fort; as there are many sorts of living creatures, and very many of every sort, so of the clouds; we may as well number the waves of the sea or the stars, as the clouds of heaven. If we look up to one part of heaven, we may see more clouds than we can number; how great then is the number of the clouds in the whole circumference of the heavens?
The word rendred clouds is sometimes translated heavens, and so a learned Interpreter gives it here; to which he adds this ⟨p. 272⟩gloss,1 Who hath made the heavens with such wisdom in that number wherein they are? who can number them? The word rendred number signifieth both to number things Arithmetically, and to demonstrate them Logically; and it may be taken in either or both senses here, who can number the clouds in wisdom? that is, who hath wisdom sufficient to tell how many clouds there are? Man hath not arithmetick enough to number them. The clouds are many in their sorts or kinds, and they are many more in their singula••, or (if I may so speak) individuals; there are many sorts of clouds, and there are many of every fort; as there are many sorts of living creatures, and very many of every sort, so of the clouds; we may as well number the waves of the sea or the stars, as the clouds of heaven. If we look up to one part of heaven, we may see more clouds than we can number; how great then is the number of the clouds in the whole circumference of the heavens?