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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 22-23
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The body of Job, nor of any man, never entered into the treasures here spoken of; nor could Jobs mind, nor the mind of any man enter fully into them, that is, comprehend how vast, how great they are. We had this phrase, Hast thou entered? at the 16th verse of this Chapter. There the question was put about his entering into the springs of the sea, here about his entering into The treasures or store-houses of the snow.
The body of Job, nor of any man, never entred into the treasures here spoken of; nor could Jobs mind, nor the mind of any man enter fully into them, that is, comprehend how vast, how great they are. We had this phrase, Hast thou entred? at the 16th verse of this Chapter. There the question was put about his entring into the springs of the sea, here about his entring into The treasures or store-houses of the snow.
1The word imports any place or repository where stores of any kind are laid up and kept for use. The Poet calleth Be-hives, the Treasuries of honey; and so may Cellars be called, the Treasuries of Wine and Oil, &c. The Clouds are the Treasuries, which contain the stores or treasures of Snow and Hail. Those places out of which God is said either to bring good for the use ⟨p. 179⟩and comfort of man, or evil for his hurt and punishment, are usually in Scripture expressed by this Word. Thus spake Moses, encouraging the people of Israel to obedience (Deut. 28.12.) The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give thee rain unto thy land in his season, &c. And God hath his just and righteous treasures of wrath, even as men heap up and have their evil and unrighteous treasures of sin (Deut. 32.34. Rom. 2.5.) Thus the Apostle James tells ungodly rich men (chap. 5.3.) Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Which may be understood of their getting their treasures of riches so unrighteously in their days, as would prove a heaping together of wrath against themselves in the last days or day of the last Judgement.