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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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Thirdly, The lowest of all, is that which we call Hell, the place of the damned, whither all go (say they, and we too) who die in sin without repentance. This place of torment, some take for the gates of death. But seeing the Lord is here speaking of natural things, not of moral actions, not of the consequents of them, rewards and punishments; therefore (though we may truly call Hell the gates or power of death, yet) that notion as well as the former is altogether heterogeneal in this Text.
Thirdly, Several expound the gates of death, in connection with the former verse, for the depth or bottom of the sea, where many dead carcasses lie rotting; all such as are cast away by shipwrecks, or die at sea, being usually thrown into the deep; and therefore at last the sea shall give up her dead, as well as the earth.
Thirdly, Several expound the gates of death, in connection with the former verse, for the depth or bottom of the sea, where many dead carcases lie rotting; all such as are cast away by shipwracks, or die at sea, being usually thrown into the deep; and therefore at last the sea shall give up her dead, as well as the earth.
Fourthly, The gates of death signify say others, nothing else but the grave, or those lower parts of the earth, in which mens bodies deceased are buried and laid up to rest till the resurrection. When we, that are earth in our constitution,1 go out of the world by dissolution, our return is into the earth, into the lower parts of the earth, we sleep in the dust. According to this sense it is as if the Lord had said, Hast thou seen the state of the dead, or how it fares with them that are gone to their graves? Hast thou visited the courts and palaces of the King of terrors? Thus the gates of death are the gates of the dead.