A81199:626
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastor of the congregation there.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastour of the congregation there.
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Vers. 20. Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.
Vers. 20. Whereas our substance is not cut downe, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.
There are divers readings and renderings of this verse; first, some with an affirmative interrogation; is not their substance cut down? that is, it is cut down; And then this verse is a continuation of the former discourse concerning the utter extirpation of the wicked; The righteous are glad, they laugh them to scorn; is not their substance cut down? and doth not the fire consume the remnant of them? As if Eliphaz had said, Whatsoever they had of any substance or moment is cut down, and if possibly there be any small inconsiderable remainder of them, fire (that is, some devouring Judgement) will meet with it, and make an utter end of it.
There are divers readings and renderings of this verse; first, some with an affirmative interrogation; is not their substance cut downe? that is, it is cut downe; And then this verse is a continuation of the former discourse concerning the utter extirpation of the wicked; The righteous are glad, they laugh them to scorne; is not their substance cut downe? and doth not the fire consume the remnant of them? As if Eliphaz had said, Whatsoever they had of any substance or moment is cut downe, and if possibly there be any small inconsiderable remainder of them, fire (that is, some devouring Judgement) will meete with it, and make an utter end of it.
1Secondly, Another understands this 20•h verse as a reason of the former; the righteous are glad (when the wicked fall) the innocent shall laugh them to scorn, because our substance was not cut down; as if he had said, our safety will be matter as of praise to God, who hath preserved us, so of holy scorn and insultation over ungodly men, who longed to see our destruction, and said in their hearts, that surely our day was not only coming, but hastening; whereas indeed we see the day come upon them which burneth as an oven, and themselves as stubble. Wicked men are for the most part doubly disappointed; first, by their own fall, when they looked to stand; secondly, by the standing of the righteous when they look, yea, and long for their fall; This double disappointment doth at once double their sorrow, and the joy of the Innocent, who laugh them to scorn, because their own substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.