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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 1-3
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First, Some affirm that it was only a Visional Whirlwind: As if the Lord appeared (as it were) in a Tempest or Whirlwind to Job in a deep sleep, such as was upon Adam (Gen. 2.21.) when the Lord took one of his ribs, and made the Woman. In such a deep sleep, say they, Job saw a Whirlwind, and heard the Lord speaking to him out of it: As Ezekiel, who in a Vision looked, and behold a Whirlwind came out of the North; as we read in the first Chapter of that Prophecy, (verse 4.)
First, Some affirm that it was onely a Visional Whirlwind: As if the Lord appeared (as it were) in a Tempest or Whirlwind to Job in a deep sleep, such as was upon Adam (Gen. 2.21.) when the Lord took one of his ribs, and made the Woman. In such a deep sleep, say they, Job saw a Whirlwind, and heard the Lord speaking to him out of it: As Ezekiel, who in a Vision looked, and behold a Whirlwind came out of the North; as we read in the first Chapter of that Prophesie, (verse 4.)
Secondly, Others conceive that it was not a Visional, but a Metaphorical Whirlwind, or a Whirlwind in a figure; and we may give you a threefold Metaphor, or three things, to which this passage of Providence may allude to a speaking out of a Whirlwind.
First, God answered Job out of the Whirlwind; that is, when there was a great bustle or storm among the Disputants, conflicting about Jobs case; one moving this way, another that, all being tossed about (as it were) with the wind of their several opinions in ventilating his condition. Out of this Whirlwind it was (say some) or while all were thus discomposed in their spirits, and could not compose the matter in difference between them and Job, during this hurry or troublesome state of things and minds, the Lord arose and answered Job.