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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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It was the saying of one of the Ancients with respect to this Allegory, To send rain upon the desert, is, to preach the word of God unto the heathens. And the Lord magnifies himself in the dispensation of this spiritual rain, when, as he sends it upon his Garden the Church, so also upon the wilderness the Heathen, that the wilderness may become a garden, and the desert a paradise, that they knowing the Lord and believing on him, may be joined to the Church. Thus also the Lord divides a water-course, to cause it to rain on the earth, where no (believing) man is; on the wilderness where there is no (good) man. The reason of his so doing, is given expressly in the next words.
It was the saying of one of the Ancients with respect to this Allegory, To send rain upon the desert, is, to preach the word of God unto the heathens. And the Lord magnifies himself in the dispensation of this spiritual rain, when, as he sends it upon his Garden the Church, so also upon the wilderness the Heathen, that the wilderness may become a garden, and the desert a paradise, that they knowing the Lord and believing on him, may be joyned to the Church. Thus also the Lord divides a water-course, to cause it to rain on the earth, where no (believing) man is; on the wilderness where there is no (good) man. The reason of his so doing, is given expresly in the next words.
Vers. 27. To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
Vers. 27. To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
Here is the reason of sending rain upon the wilderness, it is to satisfy the desolate and wast ground. Mr. Broughton renders, The wast and vast ground. The Vulgar Latin renders,