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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 1-3
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Whose is this?
Whos is this?
The words may be taken, First, as a bare enquiry after he man, Who is this? what man is this? as Saul spake of David after the victory which he had got over Goliath, Whose son is this youth? (1 Sam. 17.55.) but that I conceive is too flat and lean a sense in this place, as if the Lord did only make enquiry after the man. Therefore,
The words may be taken, First, as a bare enquiry after he man, Who is this? what man is this? as Saul spake of David after the victory which he had got over Goliah, Whose son is this youth? (1 Sam. 17.55.) but that I conceive is too flat and lean a sense in this place, as if the Lord did only make enquiry after the man. Therefore,
Secondly, These words, Who is this? carry in them a rebuke, who is it that hath done this? As if God pointing at Job, had said, is it you? I could not have believed that my servant Job would have so much forgotten himself, or have been so bold with me, as to reflect upon my just, though severe proceedings, by his weak reasonings, which faith only can make him understand aright. Such Questions in Scripture often carry a rebuke in them, yea,