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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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What the snow is, the nature and the wonders of it, was spoken of and showed, at the sixth verse of the 37th Chapter.
What the snow is, the nature and the wonders of it, was spoken of and shewed, at the sixth verse of the 37th Chapter.
All that I shall further add for the opening of this question, is, that when God speaks here of the treasures of snow, we are not to understand it, as if he had great heaps of snow formally amassed up together in any place of the air, as men lay up treasures of money or corn, or of any other useful matter; but the words are an elegant Metaphor, the meaning only this, God hath abundance of snow ready at his will and dispose, at his call and command, whensoever or wheresoever he is pleased to make use of it; for 'tis as easy with God at any time to draw out and pour down abundance of snow, as if he had infinite store of it kept always by him. He no sooner speaks the word, but the face of the earth is covered, and its bosoms filled with silver showers. Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?
All that I shall further add for the opening of this question, is, that when God speaks here of the treasures of snow, we are not to understand it, as if he had great heaps of snow formally amassed up together in any place of the air, as men lay up treasures of money or corn, or of any other useful matter; but the words are an elegant Metaphor, the meaning onely this, God hath abundance of snow ready at his will and dispose, at his call and command, whensoever or wheresoever he is pleased to make use of it; for 'tis as easie with God at any time to draw out and powre down abundance of snow, as if he had infinite store of it kept alwayes by him. He no sooner speaks the word, but the face of the earth is covered, and its bosomes filled with silver showers. Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow?