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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 12-15
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I answer, The day-spring is a great and a faithful servant to man. There are many uses of light, many services, which the light doth for us; I touched some of them in opening the former Context. We have one especial use or service of it expressed in the close of this verse; It takes hold of the ends of the earth, That the wicked may be shaken out of it.
I answer, The day-spring is a great and a faithful servant to man. There are many uses of light, many services, which the light doth for us; I toucht some of them in opening the former Context. We have one especial use or service of it expressed in the close of this verse; It takes hold of the ends of the earth, That the wicked may be shaken out of it.
This latter part of the verse seems to have little cognation with, and to be of a very difficult connection with the former; for it may be said, What hath this shaking of the wicked out of the earth to do with the light taking hold of the ends of the earth? I answer, The light that takes hold of the ends of the earth, is as a Serjeant to arrest and take hold of the wicked, and so is a means to shake them out of the earth. The words may carry a double Metaphor,
This latter part of the verse seems to have little cognation with, and to be of a very difficult connexion with the former; for it may be said, What hath this shaking of the wicked out of the earth to do with the light taking hold of the ends of the earth? I answer, The light that takes hold of the ends of the earth, is as a Serjeant to arrest and take hold of the wicked, and so is a means to shake them out of the earth. The words may carry a double Metaphor,
1First, To the shaking of a garment. When dust or moths, or any thing hurtful to a garment, is found upon it, we shake it out. Thus the Lord sends forth the morning light, to take hold of the ends of the earth, as of the ends of a great garment, that the wicked, who are but as dust and vermin, may be shaken out of it.