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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.
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 ⟨p. 154⟩of death is, hath been showed (chap. 3.5.) as al•o (c••p. 10.21.) thither I refer the Reader. Hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Surely thou hast not? Thou neither desirest, nor darest visit the doors leading to those dismal shadows, which no light can pierce, or where (as Job spake, chap. 10.21.) The light is as darkness. The scope of both the queries in this verse is the same also with those in the former, even to repulse Jobs curiosity in searching into the secrets of God, or to convince him that God had secrets which were no more opened to him than the gates of death, and which he could see no more than the doors of the shadow of death. Hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Taking death in a proper sense,
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 ⟨p. 154⟩of death is, hath been shewed (chap. 3.5.) as al•o (c••p. 10.21.) thither I refer the Reader. Hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Surely thou hast not? Thou neither desirest, nor darest visit the doors leading to those dismal shadows, which no light can pierce, or where (as Job spake, chap. 10.21.) The light is as darkness. The scope of both the queries in this verse is the same also with those in the former, even to repulse Jobs curiosity in searching into the secrets of God, or to convince him that God had secrets which were no more opened to him than the gates of death, and which he could see no more than the doors of the shadow of death. Hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Taking death in a proper sense,