A35538:1801
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 19-21
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Secondly, Reading the words thus (as was said) The glory of his nostrils is terror; they may be expounded, not as implying the terror and fright which the horse strikes others with, but which others would fright the horses with, while they brandish their swords, shake their spears, sound their trumpets; from all which terror,1 the horse is so far from running, that rather his courage is increased, and his spirit heated. Such noises, clashings and clamours, will not scare the horse, as they do the Grasshopper; but the terror or matter of fear which is presented before him, is the glory of his nostrils, that is, it will but provoke him to anger and rage, or excite his courage, which makes his nostrils smoke like fire, it cannot at all put him into a fear, and that's his glory.
Secondly, Reading the words thus (as was said) The glory of his nostrils is terror; they may be expounded, not as implying the terror and fright which the horse strikes others with, but which others would fright the horses with, while they brandish their swords, shake their spears, sound their trumpets; from all which terror,1 the horse is so far from running, that rather his courage is encreased, and his spirit heated. Such noises, clashings and clamours, will not scare the horse, as they do the Grashopper; but the terror or matter of fear which is presented before him, is the glory of his nostrils, that is, it will but provoke him to anger and rage, or excite his courage, which makes his nostrils smoak like fire, it cannot at all put him into a fear, and that's his glory.
- 1Bellum quod est aliis ad: terrorem, naribus ab equo parceptum, est ci•ad gloriam, i. e. ad quandam animi magnitudinem. Aquin.
Hence note, First; That which any creature excels in, is his glory.