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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 4-6
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.
Secondly, How little a time they have to stay in this World. Where wast thou, When I laid the foundations of the Earth?
The Hebrew is but one word, Where wast thou, when I founded the Earth? 1we say, When I laid the foundations of the Earth? What's a foundation? There are four things to be noted about a foundation.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] In fundare me, vel cum fundarem.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 In fundare me, vel cum fundarem.
First, A foundation is the lowest part of a building. The Top or Head-stone (Zach. 4.7.) and the foundation-stone, are at utmost distance; the one highest, the other lowest, the one first laid down, the other last set up.