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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 28-30
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.
Yet this manner of speaking signifies no more than this, that Ice and Frost are caused and brought forth by the power of God. The word rendered Ice, comes from a root which signifies to make bald, or to pull off the hair, because when Frost and Ice come, they ⟨p. 228⟩quickly pull off the leaves from the trees, and the flowers from the herbs, they m•ke all bare-headed, and so Ice hath its denomination from that effect; Out of whose womb came the Ice?
Yet this manner of speaking signifies no more than this, that Ice and Frost are caused and brought forth by the power of God. The word rendred Ice, comes from a root which signifies to make bald, or to pull off the hair, because when Frost and Ice come, they ⟨p. 228⟩quickly pull off the leaves from the trees, and the flowers from the hearbs, they m•ke all bare-headed, and so Ice hath its denomination from that effect; Out of whose womb came the Ice?
And the hoary fr•st of heaven, who hath gendered it?
And the hoary fr•st of heaven, who hath gendred it?
1The word rendered hoary frost, signifies to cover over, because the •oary frost covers all over. The trees and herbs, all things above ground, ae covered with the hoary frost, therefore it hath its name from covering; and here the Lord calls it, The hoary Frost Of Heaven.