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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.
Who hath divided, &c.
The Hebrew Word for a River, comes from this Root, and so also doth the Latin Word Pelagus, 1which signifieth the Sea, out of which Rivers are derived and divided into the Land. From this word also the Elder or First-born Son of Eber was called Peleg (Gen. 10.25.) and the Text gives us the reason why he was so called, For (saith Moses) in his days the Earth was divided; that is, it was distinguished into several Coasts and Countries, and by several Names, which before, lay all as it were in one Common. There have been too many hurtful divisions in the Earth, that is, of men on Earth, ever since (in another sense) and are at this day: It is sad to see the spirits, opinions, and practices of men so much divided; but it was and is useful, to have both the soil of the Earth, and the body of the Water divided. Here we have the division of the Waters.
The Hebrew Word for a River, comes from this Root, and so also doth the Latine Word Pelagus, 1which signifieth the Sea, out of which Rivers are derived and divided into the Land. From this word also the Elder or First-born Son of Eber was called Peleg (Gen. 10.25.) and the Text gives us the reason why he was so called, For (saith Moses) in his days the Earth was divided; that is, it was distinguished into several Coasts and Countries, and by several Names, which before, lay all as it were in one Common. There have been too many hurtful divisions in the Earth, that is, of men on Earth, ever since (in another sense) and are at this day: It is sad to see the spirits, opinions, and practices of men so much divided; but it was and is useful, to have both the soil of the Earth, and the body of the Water divided. Here we have the division of the Waters.