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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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But there are several opinions, what should be specially intended by the gates of death in this place.
1First, One riseth very high, saying, that by the gates of death we are to understand the visible heavens; because the heavenly bodies send down sometimes malignant influences, which have a mighty power to corrupt the bodies of men here below, so causing death to carry them away. Thus he imagines death issuing out of the clouds, as out of opened gates, upon men on earth; But that's a far fetched interpretation.
1First, One riseth very high, saying, that by the gates of death we are to understand the visible heavens; because the heavenly bodies send down sometimes malignant influences, which have a mighty power to corrupt the bodies of men here below, so causing death to carry them away. Thus he imagins death issuing out of the clouds, as out of opened gates, upon men on earth; But that's a far fetcht interpretation.
- 1Portae mortis sunt causae corruptionis, quantum advirtutes corporum ••lestium. Aquin. in loc.
Secondly, Others go to the utmost contrary point, and say, by the gates of death we are to understand Hell. The Papists give a description of several receptacles for souls departed under the earth, they make at least three distinctions;
Secondly, O•hers go to the utmost contrary point, and say, by the gates of death we are to understand Hell. The Papists give a description of several receptacles for souls departed under the earth, they make at least three distinctions;