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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 38 › Verse 4-6
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Secondly, To stretch the line, is to build, or to make preparation for building (Zech. 1.16.) Thus saith the Lord, I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies; my house shall be built in it, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. Again (chap. 4.10.) Who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. When the Lord would assure his people that Jerusalem should be restored, he doth it by promising the stretching forth of the line, and the sight of the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, commanding, overseeing, and directing the work. The line and plummet being of much and most necessary use for the right setting of a building, signified that God was about to build.
Secondly, To stretch the line, is to build, or to make preparation for building (Zech. 1.16.) Thus saith the Lord, I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies; my house shall be built in it, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. Again (chap. 4.10.) Who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoyce, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. When the Lord would assure his people that Jerusalem should be restored, he doth it by promising the stretching forth of the line, and the sight of the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, commanding, overseeing, and directing the work. The line and plummet being of much and most necessary use for the right setting of a building, signified that God was about to build.
Thirdly, The stretching forth of the line upon a place, with some addition, notes the destruction of it, or the pulling of it down (2 Kings 21.13.) I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: That is, I will make her desolate, as Ahab and Samaria were; and so the latter part of the verse expounds it; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping and turning it upside down. Again (