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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.
That is, the uppermost part of the deep is frozen; and, I conceive, the Lord puts this in (the face of the deep) to show that the cold hath not only power in the shallow standing waters, but in that which is deep, and deep to amazement; so deep, that it is called, The Deep; as if all other waters were but shallows, compared with that. So then, not ponds only and rivers and ⟨p. 231⟩shallow waters, but the face of the deep, where one would think the Frost could have no power, is frozen.
That is, the uppermost part of the deep is frozen; and, I conceive, the Lord puts this in (the face of the deep) to shew that the cold hath not only power in the shallow standing waters, but in that which is deep, and deep to amazement; so deep, that it is called, The Deep; as if all other waters were but shallows, compared with that. So then, not ponds only and rivers and ⟨p. 231⟩shallow waters, but the face of the deep, where one would think the Frost could have no power, is frozen.
The Hebrew is, The face of the deep is taken. The word notes taking, as a Captive or Prisoner is taken.1 The Lord takes the face of the deep Captive, and holds it as his Prisoner during pleasure. They who inhabit or travel to the Northern Climes, have so m••h experience that the face of the deep is frozen, that I need not further insist upon any proof of it; nor shall I further treat of these effects of Cold, Frost and Ice, as considered in a natural way: Only for the close of all, and a little improvement of them in a moral or spiritual way, we may consider them in a twofold resemblance.
The Hebrew is, The face of the deep is taken. The word notes taking, as a Captive or Prisoner is taken.1