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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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Secondly, The Lord may be said to answer Job out of the Whirlwind, because he spake to him angrily, displeasedly, and reprovingly. Anger, especially the Lords Anger or Displeasure, is often in Scripture compared to a Storm or Tempest: As if this Whirlwind were nothing else but a sharp angry chiding. When a man chides, we say, The man's in a storm; and we may ⟨p. 12⟩say with reverence, when the Lord speaks chidingly (as he did to Job) he is in a storm, or (according to the Text) speaks out of a Sto my Whirlwind: Thus also, when the Lord speaks pleasingly, and gently, then he may be said to speak in a calm. There's a truth in that.
Secondly, The Lord may be said to answer Job out of the Whirlwind, because he spake to him angrily, displeasedly, and reprovingly. Anger, especially the Lords Anger or Displeasure, is often in Scripture compared to a Storm or Tempest: As if this Whirlwind were nothing else but a sharp angry chiding. When a man chides, we say, The man's in a storm; and we may ⟨p. 12⟩say with reverence, when the Lord speaks chidingly (as he did to Job) he is in a storm, or (according to the Text) speakes out of a Sto my Whirlwind: Thus also, when the Lord speaks pleasingly, and gently, then he may be said to speak in a calm. There's a truth in that.
Thirdly, The Lord answered in a Whirlwind; that is, while Job, both as to his outward condition and inward disposition, or the frame of his spirit, was evidently in a great storm or toss. For doubtless, his spirit was very stormy and tossed up and down at that time, that is, much troubled and disquieted, upon the with-drawings of God, and the unkindness of his friends. Now when Job had this Storm, this Whirlwind in his spirit, the Lord appeared and answered him. Thus some conceive it, though not a Visional Whirlwind, yet a Metaphorical Whirlwind in those three senses opened. But
Thirdly, The Lord answered in a Whirlwind; that is, while Job, both as to his outward condition and inward disposition, or the frame of his spirit, was evidently in a great storm or toss. For doubtless, his spirit was very stormy and tossed up and down at that time, that is, much troubled and disquieted, upon the with-drawings of God, and the unkindness of his friends. Now when Job had this Stom, this Whirlwind in his spirit, the Lord appeared and answered him. Thus some conceive it, though not a Visional Whirlwind, yet a Metaphorical Whirlwind in those three senses opened. But