Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... BOOK XVIII. Contains the exposition of the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth chapters of the Book of Job, to the twenty-first verse and half through it, after manifold senses. It is the case for the most part in Holy Writ that there are things of a mystical nature so represented, that nevertheless they seem put forth in accordance with the historical relation. But oftentimes such sort of descriptions are mixed together in that same historical relation, whereby the whole outside of history is rendered null1; which same whilst they t cassesound of nothing belonging to the history, oblige the readertur to look for something else in them. For things being spoken that we suppose plain, when we find any particulars interspersed with a more obscure meaning, we are as it were pricked by a kind of spurs, that we should both be alive for the understanding some things in a deeper sense, and that we should take even those things as put forth in a more obscure sense, which we looked upon as spoken in their plain import. Whereas, then, blessed Job was speaking of the Word of the Lord, and the greatness of His thundering, next in order to these words it is directly introduced; Chap, xxvii. 1. Moreover Job added taking up his parable, and said. 2. By which same verse it is shewn in how great mystery i. the words of this most saintly man are delivered, when ' a parable, ' i. e. a simile, is described as ' taken up' by him, who utters nothing below in the way of simile or comparison. For be it far from us in this place to interpret a ' parable' that musical instrument *. Since neither is it allowable to suppose that under infliction of chastenings he used music, when Truth saith by His Scripture, Music in mourning is Ecclus. 22, 6. ' We know of no..."
