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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 19-21
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Where is the way where light dwelleth?
Tell me, O Job, if thou canst, where light lodgeth, where it reposeth it self, when the Sun is gone down, and departed out of thy sight? Tell me what way leadeth to the lodging of light? The words (as Interpreters give it) have in them a poetical tincture, as if the Sun setting, retired to his chamber, as we do, when the light and business of the day is ended. David speaks of the Sun as a Bridegroom coming out of his chamber (Psal. 19.5.) And when his race (as to us) is run every day, he hath a chamber ready for him: not that the Sun doth at all end its motion, or sit down to rest, but because it seems to rest, when it goeth down to us. As if the Lord had said, Hast thou travelled to the place of the Suns rising and setting? Where is the way where the light dwelleth?
Tell me, O Job, if thou canst, where light lodgeth, where it reposeth it self, when the Sun is gone down, and departed out of thy sight? Tell me what way leadeth to the lodging of light? The words (as Interpreters give it) have in them a poet•cal tincture, as if the Sun setting, retired to his chamber, as we do, when the light and business of the day is ended. David speaks of the Sun as a Bridegroom coming out of his chamber (Psal. 19.5.) And when his race (as to us) is run every day, he hath a chamber ready for him: not that the Sun doth at all end its motion, or sit down to rest, but because it seems to rest, when it goeth down to us. As if the Lord had said, Hast thou travelled to the place of the Suns rising and setting? Where is the way where the light dwelleth?
There may be a threefold answer given to these questions, as light is taken properly for the natural light, the light of the day, caused by the Suns approach; and as darkness is taken properly for natural darkness, caused by the with-drawing of the Sun.