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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 1-3
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Some render, Then the Lord answered concerning, or about Job; And these turn the whole discourse of God in this and the next Chapter upon Elihu, in favour of Job. I shall touch upon that opinion and interpretation (as was said) afterwards: but at present affirm, that Job was the person to whom the Lord here directed his Answer; and to take off this doubt, how the Lord could be said to answer Job, when Job had not spoken last, but Elihu,
I answer (as upon a like occasion it hath been elsewhere showed in this book ch. 3.2.) that sometimes in Scripture, a Speech begun is called an Answer, where nothing had been spoken before, to which that speech could be applied in way of answer, Matth. ⟨p. 9⟩11.25. Matth. 17.4. The reason of this Hebraism, is because such as begin to speak, do either answer the necessity of the matter, or the desire of the hearers; and so they give a real and virtual, though not a formal Answer. Yet there are two considerations, in which we may apply the word Answer, formally and strictly taken, to Job.
I answer (as upon a like occasion it hath been elsewhere shewed in this book ch. 3.2.) that sometimes in Scripture, a Speech begun is called an Answer, where nothing had been spoken before, to which that speech could be applied in way of answer, Matth. ⟨p. 9⟩11.25. Matth. 17.4. The reason of this Hebraisme, is because such as begin to speak, do either answer the necessity of the matter, or the desire of the hearers; and so they give a real and vertual, though not a formal Answer. Yet there are two considerations, in which we may apply the word Answer, formally and strictly taken, to Job.