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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 38 › Verse 1-3
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.
Girding in the Text is of this latter sort:1 Disputing is a kind of fighting and warring. Opponents and Respondents are like ⟨p. 36⟩Combatants.2 Controversial Divinity is called Polemical Divinity. Disputes are Word-Wars. And there have been as hot wars made by the Pen, as ever were by the Sword. Thus the Lord seems to send Job a challenge to the battle by a further debate. Arm thy self like a mighty man, get ready for the duel, for I am purposed to try what a man thou art in arguing, or at an argument, I have heard thee too stiff in complaining, or at a complaint.
Girding in the Text is of this latter sort:1 Disputing is a kind of fighting and warring. Opponents and Respondents are like ⟨p. 36⟩Combatants.2 Controversal Divinity is called Polemical Divinity. Disputes are Word-Wars. And there have been as hot wars made by the Pen, as ever were by the Sword. Thus the Lord seems to send Job a challenge to the battel by a further debate. Arme thy self like a mighty man, get ready for the duel, for I am purposed to try what a man thou art in arguing, or at an argument, I have heard thee too stiffe in complaining, or at a complaint.
- 1Appara te ad suturam disceptationem. Vatab.
- 2Arma te nunc armis tuis, sicut vir strenuus ad committendum duellum mecum: Ecce venio ad literarum duellum tecum: Arma te scientiae armis. Cajet. Signanter de praecinctione lumborum facit mentionem, quia per lumbos carnalis voluptas intelligitur, quae praecipue inipedit spirituaalem auditum. Aquin. In arcano sermone significat libidinis in lumbis residentis compressionem. [Greek or Hebrew] Sonat virtutem & fortitudinem, & quod opponitur blanditiis lenociniis & infirmitati faemineae. Ut vir, emphatice, animo viriti, promptitudine virili.