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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 9-12
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.
The word which we translate Barn, is used (Numb. 18.27. 2 Sam. 6.6.) and in both places it is rendered, Threshing-floor. The threshing-floor is usually in the barn, and therefore the same word may well signify both. Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
The word which we translate Barn, is used (Numb. 18.27. 2 Sam. 6.6.) and in both places it is rendred, Threshing-floor. The threshing-floor is usually in the barn, and therefore the same word may well signifie both. Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
Hence note, First; The labour of beasts is very profitable to man.
The Ox and Horse bring the seed home formally when 'tis ⟨p. 378⟩reaped, and they bring it home or make it to return virtually when they labour and take pains about or for the sowing of it. The Psalmist having prayed (Psal. 144. vers. 13.) That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store, presently adds (vers. 14.) That our Oxen may be strong to labour; for (Prov. 14.4.) where no Oxen are, the crib is clean. Not only, First, Because there is no need to fill the crib, where no oxen are to eat up the fodder, as was showed a little before: But, Secondly, Because where no Oxen are, there is nothing to fill it. The crib must needs be empty, when the barn is empty; food faileth both for man and beast, where there are no Oxen. Barns and garners are full, when the Ox is strong to labour, or because the strong Ox hath been in labour: For (as it followeth) Much increase cometh by the strength of the Ox. Why doth Solomon impute increase to the strength of the Ox? Surely, because the Ox being strong is also willing to labour and lay out his strength, and so, much increase cometh by the strength and labour of the Ox, though that alone will not do it. For that there may be an increase, these five things must concur.