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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 24-27
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Our Translators and many others take light here strictly for the light of the Sun, Knowest thou by what way the light is parted? either from the clouds, or from the darkness; Knowest thou how the light is parted into several Climates and Coasts of the World? This parting of the light may be considered,
First, As there is a new proportion of the light provided every day; for, as it was showed before, we never have the light two days together in the same state, but more or less, shorter or longer. The light is longer in one part of the year every day, and sho•ter in another part of the year every day. This change or parting of the light is a glorious work of God, who so divides the light according to the time of the year, that every day hath a portion, and yet no day hath the same portion.
First, As there is a new proportion of the light provided every day; for, as it was shewed before, we never have the light two days together in the same state, but more or less, shorter or longer. The light is longer in one part of the year every day, and sho•ter in another part of the year every day. This change or parting of the light is a glorious work of God, who so divides the light according to the time of the year, that every day hath a portion, and yet no day hath the same portion.
1Secondly, The light may be said to be parted by the power of God at the same time, or upon the same day, while in one Coast it is cloudy and in another clear; yea within our own view we may behold the Sun shine in one place and not in another. Some judge this the most profitable sense, because so there is a clearing of this Text from what went before. Nor is it an easy thing, taking this meaning of the words, to answer the question here put to Job. How the Lord parts the light in the same day and at the same time in our view, making it shine in one place and not in another. But whether we understand the Text of parting light from darkness at the Sun rising, or of parting the light at any time of the day after the Sun is risen, the matter is not of much importance. By what way is the light parted?