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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
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Secondly, From the particular Point, upon which the care of God is here intimated, with respect to the wild Goats and Hinds; namely, their bringing forth and calving, we learn, that There is a special providence of God towards these and such like creatures, for the production of their young.
Secondly, From the particular Point, upon which the care of God is here intimated, with respect to the wilde Goats and Hinds; namely, their bringing forth and calving, we learn, that There is a special providence of God towards these and such like creatures, for the production of their young.
He (if I may so speak with reverence) shows his Midwifery, in helping these savage beasts when their pains come upon them. As the Lord takes man (in an eminent manner) out of the womb (Psal. 22.9.) so in a manner, he takes beasts out of the womb too (Psal. 29.8, 9.) The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness, it shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. So we translate it; but the word which we render shaketh, is the same with this in the Text, which signifieth to bring forth: And hence some very learned in the Hebrew tongue, do not render as we, The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness, but, The voice of the Lord maketh the wilderness to bring forth; The Lord maketh the wilderness of Kadesh to bring forth; which is not to be understood of the vegetative creatures (that's a truth, the Lord makes the Trees of the Forrest to bring forth both leaves and fruit) but it is meant of animals or living creatures there: And then, when he saith, The voice of the Lord maketh the wilderness to bring forth, the meaning is, The Lord makes the wild beast of the wilderness to bring forth; which seems to be the clear sense of the place, by that which followeth; for the Psalmist having said this in general at the 8 h verse, The voice of the Lord maketh the wilderness to bring forth, he in the 9th verse, gives the special instance of the Hind, The voice of the Lord maketh the Hinds to calve.