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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.
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.
Some because the relative [Which] is not expressed in the Original, take these words as a distinct question,1 Knowest thou by what way the light is parted? and (taking up that again) by what way he scattereth the East-wind upon the Earth? But I shall speak of these words, as intending this effect of light, the scattering the East-wind. The Hebrew Word signifies strictly the Eastern part of the World, the Sun-rising, and so the East-wind, which riseth often with the Sun, or upon which the Sun hath a great command, and may be here put synecdochically for all the Winds. Naturalists tell us that lightning (which was the first interpretation) doth raise the East-wind, or causeth it to blow; and that the light of the Sun, or the Sun-rising, hat• also an influence upon the wind, or raiseth the East-wind, is both the observation of Naturalists and an assertion which hath ground in Scripture. The Sun is by some called, the Father of the Winds, and especially of the East-wind; and the East-wind hath denominations ⟨p. 200⟩both in the Greek and Latin Tongue (as the Margin shows) implying that it is much (as it were) under the dominion of the Sun. It is said (