A35538:117
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 1-3
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.
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,
Thirdly, more then a rebuke, they carry a slight or contempt of the person about whom the question is put. As when men presume (as some blasphemously have done) to say, Who is the ⟨p. 23⟩Lord? What is the Almighty that we should serve him? they speak contemptuously and slightingly of God: So when God speaks thus to man, who is this? he may be said to speak slightingly of man. Again, as when man, speaking of himself, saith (as Psal. 8.4.) What is man that thou art mindful of him! he slights or vilifies himself; so when the Lord saith, who is this? or who is the other? it carrieth the same sense. Interrogations are quick sharp speeches, and usually those speeches are quick and sharp which begin with an Interrogation; and doubtless this Interrogation hath a double sharpness, or two stings in it.
Thirdly, more then a rebuke, they carry a slight or contempt of the person about whom the question is put. As when men presume (as some blasphemously have done) to say, Who is the ⟨p. 23⟩Lord? What is the Almighty that we should serve him? they speak contemptuously and slightingly of God: So when God speaks thus to man, who is this? he may be said to speak slightingly of man. Again, as when man, speaking of himself, saith (as Psal. 8.4.) What is man that thou art mindful of him! he slights or vilifies himself; so when the Lord saith, who is this? or who is the other? it carryeth the same sense. Interrogations are quick sharp speeches, and usually those speeches are quick and sharp which begin with an Interrogation; and doubtless this Interrogation hath a double sharpness, or two stings in it.