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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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Vers. 14. It is turned as clay to the seal, and they stand as a garment.
This verse (saith a learned Expositor) is so difficult,1 that he not to be refused, who offers any thing probable towards the opening of it. I conceive it may best be understood as an Exposition of those words in the former part of the 13th verse, That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, it is turned as clay to the seal; that is, the earth is turned as clay to the seal: for when the light passeth through the air, it sets as it were a new stamp upon the earth. And then the former part of the 15th verse, may be taken as an Exposition of the latter part of the 13th verse, That the wicked might be shaken out of it; and from the wicked light is with-holden; that is, they are utterly destroyed, and so shaken out of the earth.
This verse (saith a learned Expositer) is so difficult,1 that he not to be refused, who offers any thing probable towards the opening of it. I conceive it may best be understood as an Exposition of those words in the former part of the 13th verse, That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, it is turned as clay to the seal; that is, the earth is turned as clay to the seal: for when the light passeth through the air, it sets as it were a new stamp upon the earth. And then the former part of the 15th verse, may be taken as an Exposition of the latter part of the 13th verse, That the wicked might be shaken out of it; and from the wicked light is with-holden; that is, they are utterly destroyed, and so shaken out of the earth.
- 1Locus difficilis est, & quo in extricando, si aliquis dixerit aliquid vorisimile, a benigno lectore respuendum non est. Sanct.