A35538:1649
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 13-18
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 Hebrew is thresh them, which implieth more than cracking, even breaking them all to pieces.
The Hebrew is thresh them, which implyeth more than cracking, even breaking them all to pieces.
Thus we see what report God himself makes of the Ostrich; but many other things are reported of the Ostrich by natural Historians, which we have no reason to believe, because they contradict the report which the Lord here makes of her, unless they mean some other sort of Ostrich than is here described.1 For Aelian tells us, The Ostrich sits diligently upon her eggs, till the young ones are hatched, and then is very tender over them. Both which the Lord denies concerning the Ostrich in the Text, while ⟨p. 402⟩he saith, She leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, &c.
Thus we see what report God himself makes of the Ostrich; but many other things are reported of the Ostrich by natural Historians, which we have no reason to believe, because they contradict the report which the Lord here makes of her, unless they mean some other sort of Ostrich than is here described.1 For Aelian tells us, The Ostrich sits diligently upon her eggs, till the young ones are hatcht, and then is very tender over them. Both which the Lord denies concerning the Ostrich in the Text, while ⟨p. 402⟩he saith, She leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, &c.
- 1Aelianus l. 4. c. 6. 36.