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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.
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.
1Secondly, (Say they) when he hath cast his horn, then also he retires and gets into the thicket, as far from sight as he can, being sensible he hath lost his arms, his defence, and is therefore unwilling to come abroad where danger is, till his head be grown again, and he furnished with weapons for his own defence.
1Secondly, (Say they) when he hath cast his horn, then also he retires and gets into the thicket, as far from sight as he can, being sensible he hath lost his armes, his defence, and is therefore unwilling to come abroad where danger is, till his head be grown again, and he furnished with weapons for his own defence.
- 1Cum su• amis••it arma, cavit ne inermis reperiatur. Arist. ubi supra.
The Hind in the Text is the female, and the Scripture speaks of the Hind in a twofold allusion. First, In allusion to Christ. Secondly, In allusion to those that are Christs.