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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 16-18
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In the former sense David spake (in way of supplication, Psal. 9.13.) Have mercy on me, O Lord, consider my trouble, which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death; that is, from deadly danger. In the latter he spake by way of narration, in his elegant description of the sick, (Psal. 107.18.) Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat, and they draw near unto the gates of death; that is, they are ready to die, or sick unto death. And thus said King Hezekiah upon his sick-bed, and as he thought (a little before) upon his death-bed, (Isa. 38.10.) I shall go to the gates of the grave, I am deprived of the residue of my years; that is, of those years which I might have reckoned upon as mine, according to the common account of mans life, or the usual course of nature.
These are the more general gates of death, and about these all agree.
But there are several opinions, what should be specially intended by the gates of death in this place.