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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
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Secondly, In that the Lord puts the Question to Job, Knowest thou, &c. (for we are still to repeat those words in these questions, though not expressed, Knowest thou?) that is, thou knowest not.
Secondly, In that the Lord puts the Q•estion to Job, Knowest thou, &c. (for we are still to repeat those words in these questions, though not exprest, Knowest thou?) that is, thou knowest not.
Hence Note; Man is much in the dark about the light, and how God distributeth, disposeth, and dispenseth forth the light.
Hence Note; Man is much in the dark about the light, and how God distrubuteth, disposeth, and dispenseth forth the light.
Those things that are clear to our sense, are often very obscure to our understanding. Nothing more clear to sense, than that the light is parted; yet what is more obscure than this, in what way, and how the light is parted. And as this parting of the light is marvellous, so also in the effect of it, held out in the latter part of the Verse, Which scattereth the East-wind upon the Earth.
Those things that are clear to our sense, are often very obscure to our unde•standing. Nothing more clear to sense, than that the light is parted; yet what is more obscure than this, in what way, and how the light is parted. And as this parting of the light is marvellous, so also in the effect of it, held out in the latter part of the Verse, Which scattereth the East-wind upon the Earth.