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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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There is another reading of this part of the verse,1 who can slay the harmony of heaven? The Vulgar Latin renders, who can make the music of heaven sleep, that is, cease, or be quiet. The reason of this translation is this, because the same word which signifieth a bottle, signifies also a musical instrument somewhat resembling the form of a bottle (Psal. 33.2.) Thus some take it here, as intending that musical or melodious harmony, which ancient Philosophers have affirmed is made by the motion of the heavenly spheres; yet by this they do not mean a proper musical sound or harmony, such as the Pythagoreans dreamed of, which some other learned men have said is so sweet and ravishing, that if we did but hear i•, we could neither ⟨p. 274⟩eat, nor drink, nor sleep: Yea, they tell us, that Moses while he did not eat, nor drink, nor sleep those forty days in the Mount, was all that while taken up, and ravished with that Music; but you may put that among Jewish fables.
There is another reading of this part of the verse,1 who can slay the harmony of heaven? The Vulgar Latine renders, who can make the musick of heaven sleep, that is, cease, or be quiet. The reason of this translation is this, because the same word which signifieth a bottle, signifies also a musical instrument somewhat resembling the form of a bottle (Psal. 33.2.) Thus some take it here, as intending that musical or melodious harmony, which antient Philosophers have affi•med is made by the motion of the heavenly sphears; yet by this they do not mean a proper musical sound or harmony, such as the Pythagoreans dreamed of, which some other learned men have said is so sweet and ravishing, that if we did but hear i•, we could neither ⟨p. 274⟩eat, nor drink, nor sleep: Yea, they tell us, that Moses while he did not eat, nor drink, nor sleep those forty days in the Mount, was all that while taken up, and ravished with that Musick; but you may put that among Jewish fables.