S96 Verf. 21. F4n Expoftion rotpon the.Fookof Jo s, Chip. 37. Verf, z 1, And now menfeenot the bright light which is in the Clouds. end now. Some have conjecStured, that at this very infant of time while Elihu was difcourfing,there happened a fuddenchange in the Air, or in-the face of the Heavens ; thereforehe faith, and azow, do not the heavens growdark, fo that men cannot fee the bright light which is in the Clouds ? as if here were a preparati- on to that Whirlwind or Tempefl,out of whichGodhimfelf is Paid to fpeak to Job, at the beginning of the next chapter.. Yet, I apprehend, we need not expound the word [now] fo ftrialy, with refpedt to the .prefent feafon or moment of time, but rat er to the prefent matter. ;as we often ufe that particle Norn,both in fpeech and writing,not fo much to denote the diredt intlatitot prefent time, as for a leading word to thematter which. ism follow. And,newmen fee not (or they cannot fee) the bright light which is in the Clouds. Light is the mot vifible thing in the -world ; though indeed we are not foproperly faid to fee the Light at all, as to fee all things by the light ; for is is Light which maketh mani- fell, as the Apofle fpeaks ( Ephef. 5. 13, ) But though Light be (in vulgar fenfe ) fo vifiblé in its awn nature, and (in flriaeít fenfe) that which maketh all things vifible, yet by ac- cident, or by force providential interpofition, light it felf is not alwayes to be teen. Light is oftenhiéden from cur eyes, and then (as Elihte fpeakes here) men fee not the bright light. The word -rra whichwe tranfl.tre bright light,fignifes the whitenefr ofSnow,and. !`ropriecandi. I find it applied (Lev t r ;. 2.) to the whiteners of Leprofie ; if dus, uncle $1`tria there (hall appear an the f e à a bright Or rhiniog) foot, a fpot like Condenslepra. fn w,then, &c. And hrnce ir is laid of Gehazi (e Kings ç. 27.) Druf. that whenhis mailer called him ro account abeur his going after ernpriAdenotat Naaman,& found him fig teringand faulry,he laid that fore judge gregienflendi- menr unr?n him,7-he leprofie therefore ofXaanta -n (hall cleave onto duo e..7 candi- thee and unto thy feed for ever ; ad he went owofhùpretence a le- duneap. lab. per as white as Snow. It is this word, which fignifier,as any extra- rtah:r, o: dinary whitenefs and clearnets, fo the clea:nefs and whitenefs of Snow in particular,+which ha h a'kind of rranfparency in ir, and is full of light:Yet the light which is in the Clouds when the Sun fhineth,
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