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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 7
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So much of these words, as the Stars are taken properly.
There are some (as I said before) who take these Stars metaphorically or figuratively for the Angels, and then their singing is proper; and there are two reasons given, why by the stars in this place, we should understand the Angels.
First, If we consider the truth or course of the History, because the Earth being created the first day, the Stars were not in being till the fourth day; unless we comprehend them (as was said before, as to their matter and reality) under those words of Moses, In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth: but as to their appearance and formality, so they were not till the fourth day; and if so, how could they sing the praises of God at the laying of the foundations of the Earth? A second reason is given from this Chapter, because God speaks of the Stars afterwards (vers. 31, 32.) Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades (the seven Stars so called) or loose the bands of Orion, &c. Here the Lord treats with Job about the Stars in proper sense, therefore probably the Morning Stars here mentioned, are not to be taken properly, but tropically, for the Angels.
First, If we consider the truth or course of the History, because the Earth being created the first day, the Stars were not in being till the fourth day; unless we comprehend them (as was said before, as to their matter and reallity) under those words of Moses, In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth: but as to their appearance and formality, so they were not till the fourth day; and if so, how could they sing the praises of God at the laying of the foundations of the Earth? A second reason is given from this Chapter, because God speaks of the Stars afterwards (vers. 31, 32.) Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades (the seven Stars so called) or loose the bands of Orion, &c. Here the Lord treats with Job about the Stars in proper sense, therefore probably the Morning Stars here mentioned, are not to be taken properly, but tropically, for the Angels.