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Job 4:16 - Exposition

It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof. Canon Cook quotes, very appositely, Milton's representation of Death as a fearful shape,

"If shape it could be called that shape had none

Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb,

Or substance might be called that shadow seemed."

An image was before mine eyes ; or, on appearance ( LXX ; μορφή ). There was silence; or, a hush— "status aeris nullo motu turbati, et tranquillissimus" (Schulteus). And I heard a voice, saying . After a while the silence was broken by a voice, which whispered in Eliphaz's ear (comp. Job 4:12 ).

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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Job 4:16 - Exposition

Job 4:16 - Exposition

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