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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 22-25
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Vers. 24. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, &c.
1Still the expressions rise higher and higher, the courage of the horse transports him so far, that he even swalloweth the ground. We say of some hard and great students, they swallow up books, they make no bones of great books. So here, to show the mighty courage and fierceness of the horse, he is represented, as if he would eat up or swallow the very ground he treads on.
1Still the expressions rise higher and higher, the courage of the horse transports him so far, that he even swalloweth the ground. We say of some hard and great students, they swallow up books, they make no bones of great books. So here, to shew the mighty courage and fierceness of the horse, he is represented, as if he would eat up or swallow the very ground he treads on.
- 1Absorbet torram, poetica locutio sic vorare viam, vorare literas. Drus. Helluones librorum.
Yet many Expositors are not satisfied, that the Hebrew word here used ([Greek or Hebrew]) should be rendered to swallow; and therefore they translate, He diggeth the earth with fierceness and rage; and expound it of his making holes in the ground, by pawing in the valley spoken of verse 21. Master Broughton gives it thus; With snaking and stirring he beateth upon the earth: The Chaldee Paraphrase saith,1 He makes a hole in the earth. The authority of the Chaldee (saith Bootius) gives credit to this exposition and strengthens it; because it shows, that the word in the Syriac tongue (many of which are used in this book of Job) may well signify to dig or make a hole, seeing from this Verb a