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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.
Some render, Thou shalt have silver of weariness; He means it not of silver, as it wearies a man in the getting of it, but he means it of so great a quantity or sum of silver, as shall weary a man to tell it, or trouble him to weigh it. The manner of accounting silver was anciently by weight; hence what is paid in money is called a pension. We translate fully to that sense, thou shalt have plenty of silver; for they that have so much as tires and wearies them to tell or weigh it, have store enough. We put silver of strength in the Margin. Silver is a strong metal, and it is strength, great strength to Man. This rendering suites best with the beginning of the verse. The Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt ⟨p. 248⟩have silver of strengths, 1or silver to strengthen thee. As for plenty, that was fully set forth in the former verse, where he is promised Gold as the dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the Brooke. Besides, the word is divers times applied to express strength by, but rarely if at all in Scripture to express plenty by, and here our translators render it so, not properly but tropically, as appears before; for properly it expresseth the greatest strength, as first, The strength of the Unicorn (Num. 23.22.) God brought him out of Egypt, he hath as it were the strength of an Unicorn; Secondly, The strength of Mountains (Psal. 95.4.) therefore I conceive it is best rendered silver of strength; as gold is clothed with a word which signifies defence, so silver is joined with a word that signifies strength, because there is much strength and defence in both, money being the sinews or strength of war; So that to say, Thou shalt have silver of strength, is as if he had said, thy silver shall be a strength, or a blessing to thee; Some have silver and it is no strength to them; or he calleth it, silver of strength, because it should be confirmed, and established for his use and in his possession. He should find, by experience, that there was tack in it, that it was solid silver, or silver that had strength in it. So then, these are but several expressions of the same thing, all which gathered together heighten up the promise of this outward mercy;