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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 39-41
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Lastly, The Lion is an emblem of a godly man, First, For his boldness and gracious confidence in a good cause (Prov. 28.1.) The righteous is bold as a Lion. 1Secondly, For his gratefulness to them who have done him good. Some of the ancients have rela•ed strange things of the hospitality of a Lion entertaining a man, and of the gratitude of a man healing a Lion, with the consequents of both. Thus by these Scripture-resemblances, we may learn much what the Lion is, and what his qualities are. Wilt thou hunt the prey for the Lion?
- 1De Leone hominis hospite, & homine medice Leonis. Vide Gellium, l. 5. c. 14. & Aelian. l. 7. cap ult.
Or fill the appetite of the young Lions?
Possibly the Lord speaks of filling the appetite of young Lions because young Lions have appetites so strong, that a small matter will not fill them. Young ones of any kind, have stronger appetites than those that are old; young Lions especially, whose constitution (say Naturalists) is very hot and dry: that being the temperament of Lions; young Lions must needs require a great proportion of food to satisfy their stomach, and find work for their quick concoction. 'Tis but a while, that the milk of the Lioness will serve their turn, they must have stronger meat; young Lions are soon ready for prey; 'Tis said (Judg. 14.5.) that when Samson passed by, a young Lion roared against him, or (as the Margin reads it) a young Lion meeting him roared; and why did he roar? not so much for anger, as for hunger, desiring to make a prey of Sampson.