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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 40 › Verse 6-8
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At the first verse of the 38th Chapter, we read of this whirlwind, and of the Lord answering out of it.
What a whirlwind is, was there opened, and several points of observation given from it, which I shall not now at all touch upon, nor meddle with; and yet, though the words in this 6th verse of the 40. Chapter, are the very same with those in the first verse of the 38th Chapter, yet from their placing and their repeating here, we may profitably take notice of some things for our instruction.
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said. The whirlwind being here spoken of a second time, 'tis questioned by some, whether this were a whirlwind of greater force, or of less than the former, or the same. The ground of the query is from a little variation which is in the Hebrew Text. In the 38th Chapter an Article is prefixed to the word whirlwind, which (say some) ⟨p. 530⟩intends the sense, noting it to be a very vehement whirlwind: But in the 40 Chapter, that article is left out; upon which they collect, That this latter whirlwind was not so fierce, nor so vehement as the former. But this is only a conjecture; nor can any thing be solidly grounded upon such Grammatical differences; yea, some, notwithstanding that defect of the Article, conceive the whirlwind here in this Chapter, was more vehement than that in the former Chapter. But I shall not stay about that Query, nor discourse any thing concerning the nature of the whirlwind, which was touched before at the 38. Chapter, but shall
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said. The whirlwind being here spoken of a second time, 'tis questioned by some, whether this were a whirlwind of greater force, or of less than the former, or the same. The ground of the querie is from a little variation which is in the Hebrew Text. In the 38th Chapter an Article is prefixt to the word whirlwind, which (say some)