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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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Who can stay the bottles of heaven? that is, the clouds, who can stay them, or (as the Hebrew strictly) who can cause them to lye down? Master Broughton renders, who can distil the barrels of heaven? The word here used signifies a bottle, or any vessel wherein liquor is preserved; and it may be taken either fo• a bottle made of skin, a leathern bottle, or for a bottle made of clay, an earthen bottle, a Potters bottle, as 'tis called (Isa. 30.14.) The clouds are like a leathern or an earthern bottle, which as it holds the liquor, so being unstopped and held up, the liquor runs out; who can stay the bottles of heaven? that is, if God once unstop the clouds, they presently pour down in and who can stay them from raining? no man can. That's a plain sense; as if the Lord had said, who can hinder the clouds from giving down rain, if once opened? who but I can restrain the rain (which is heavy of it self and tends naturally downwards) from falling out of the clouds?
Who can stay the bottles of heaven? that is, the clouds, who can stay them, or (as the Hebrew strictly) who can cause them to lye down? Master Braughton renders, who can destill the barrels of heaven? The word here used signifies a bottle, or any vessel wherein liquor is preserved; and it may be taken either fo• a bottle made of skin, a leathern bottle, or for a bottle made of clay, an earthen bottle, a Potters bottle, as 'tis called (Isa. 30.14.) The clouds are like a leathern or an earthern bottle, which as it holds the liquor, so being unstopped and held up, the liquor runs out; who can stay the bottles of heaven? that is, if God once unstop the clouds, they presently pour down in and who can stay them from raining? no man can. That's a plain sence; as if the Lord had said, who can hinder the clouds from giving down rain, if once opened? who but I can restrain the rain (which is heavy of it self and tends naturally downwards) from falling out of the clouds?