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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fifthly, We may understand by the gates of death in general,1 whatsoever is most remote and farthest off from our sight and view. As if the Lord, who said before, Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? had said here, Hast thou entered into the bowels or deepest abysses of the earth, which are dark and uncomfortable, as the grave, or like the very gates of death? Knowest thou, or canst thou tell me what is done, or how things go there?2
Fifthly, We may understand by the gates of death in general,1 whatsoever is most remote and farthest off from our sight and view. As if the Lord, who said before, Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea? had said here, Hast thou entred into the bowels or deepest abysses of the earth, which are dark and uncomfortable, as the grave, or like the very gates of death? Knowest thou, or canst thou tell me what is done, or how things go there?2
- 1An nosti quae fiunt in visceribus terrae. Vatabl.
- 2Portae mortis & umbrae mortis sunt ea loca, ad quae vivus non penetrat, quae nulla lux ••radiat, &c. Coc.
Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
These words are of a like intendment with the former: The gates of death, and the doors of the shadow of death, are the same thing under a little difference of expression. What the shadow