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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 39 › Verse 1-4
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.
It is the same word in the Original, which in the former part of the verse is translated to bring forth; 1but because that special word calving is more proper to Hinds, therefore we wave the general sense bringing forth, which is applicable to any kind of beasts; and take this, not rendering as before, when the Hinds bring forth, but when they calve. The Hind is a wild beast often spoken of in Scripture, and well known in nature; the male we commonly call a Stag or Hart, of which naturalists observe two things.
It is the same word in the Original, which in the former part of the verse is translated to bring forth; 1but because that special word calving is more proper to Hinds, therefore we wave the general sense bringing forth, which is applicable to any kind of beasts; and take this, not rendring as before, when the Hinds bring forth, but when they calve. The Hind is a wild beast often spoken of in Scripture, and well known in nature; the male we commonly call a Stagg or Hart, of which naturalists observe two things.
- 1Mas cum pinguerit, longè secedit, ut qui pondere suae corpulentiae capi see posse facile sentiat. Aristot. l. 9. c. 5. de natura animalium.Mas cum pinguerit, longè secedit, ut qui pondere suae corpulentiae capi se posse facile sentiat. Aristot. l. 9. c. 5. de natura animalium.
First, That perceiving himself to grow fat in the latter end of summer, and being conscious of his own inability to help himself by flight, he retires naturally to covert in secret places, that so he may be free from the pursuit of hunters.
First, That perceiving himself to grow fat in the latter end of summer, and being conscious of his own inability to help himself by flight, he retires naturally to covert in secret places, that so he may be free from the pursute of hunters.