A35538:1853
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 22-25
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.
Well furbished spears and shields glitter, or (as the Hebrew hath it) flame. The heads & points of spears being burnished & brightened, seem like burning fire or flames; yet the horse is not moved by them. We read of a flaming sword in a higher sense (Gen. 3.24.) as here of flaming spears and shields. Now as the clashing and rattling of arms, so the brightness of them is terrible; but neither the one nor the other, neither the rattling quiver, nor the glittering spear and shield trouble the courageous horse.1 Mr. Broughton translates, not shield but, javelin, which is an offensive or missive weapon; the word is rendered spear (Josh. 8.18. 1 Sam. 174 5.) as also at the 29th verse of the 41th Chapter of this Book. These things laid together bring in, or make up a fuller proof of the horses courage; the quiver rattleth against him, the spear and shield rattle too, yet he is not discouraged.
Well furbisht spears and shields glitter, or (as the Hebrew hath it) flame. The heads & points of spears being burnished & brighten'd, seem like burning fire or flames; yet the horse is not moved by them. We read of a flaming sword in a higher sense (Gen. 3.24.) as here of flaming spears and shields. Now as the clashing and ratling of armes, so the brightness of them is terrible; but neither the one nor the other, neither the ratling quiver, nor the glittering spear and shield trouble the couragious horse.1 Mr. Broughton translates, not shield but, javelin, which is an offensive or missive weapon; the word is rendred spear (Josh. 8.18. 1 Sam. 174 5.) as also at the 29th verse of the 41th Chapter of this Book. These things laid together bring in, or make up a fuller proof of the horses courage; the quiver ratleth against him, the spear and shield ratle too, yet he is not discouraged.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] saepe lancea reditur.