Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished MysteryRussell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
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Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jehovah's witnesses -- Controversial literature
The following is a corrected translation of Job 40:15 to 41:34, with
comments thereon from the pen of one of Pastor Russell’s followers:
“Behold now one with great heat [the stationary steam engine], which I
have made to be with thee; he will consume fodder [peat, wood, coal] as do
cattle. Behold now his strength is in his loins [boiler plates], and his
power is within the parts bent in a circle [boiler shell] of his belly.
His tail [smoke stack—opposite the feeding end] will set upright like a
cedar; the couplings of his leaping parts [connecting rods, pitmans] will
be clamped together. His bones are tubes of copper; his solid bones [grate
bars] are as hammered‐out bars of iron. He is the greatest of the ways of
power. He that made him [the Lord] can make His sword [Word] to approach
unto [reveal] him. [Isa. 27:1, 2.] He shall rest under thin shelter [steam
jackets] within a covering of fibrous reeds [jute] and clay [mortar]. The
willows of the valley [the trees overhead] will enclose him around about
Behold [as a pumping engine] he will drink up an overflowing river without
much exertion; he will cause the people to trust [that their cellars will
keep dry], though a Jordan should rush forth over its border. He will
gather it up in his fountains by means of traps and with a perforated
nozzle.
“Thou wilt lengthen out leviathan [the locomotive] with a hook [automatic
coupler] or with a snare [coupling‐pin] which thou wilt cause his tongue
[coupling‐link] to drop down. Wilt thou not place a ring [piston] in his
nostrils [cylinders] or pierce through his cheeks [piston‐ends] with a
staff [piston‐rod]? Will he make repeated supplication unto thee [to get
off the track]? Or will he utter soft tones unto thee [when he screeches
with the whistle]? Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou mayest
take him for a servant forever [without repairs]? Wilt thou play with him
as with a bird [make him whistle at will]? Or wilt thou bind [enslave] him
for thy maidens [so that you can take them to a picnic or convention]?
Companies [of stockholders] will feast upon him [his earnings]; they will
share him among speculators. [Psa. 74:14.] Thou wilt fill his skin with
pointed irons [bolts], and his head with a cabin of fishermen [a cab
similar to the cabins on fishing vessels]. Place thy hand upon him, be
mindful of the conflict [raging within the boiler] and thou wilt add no
further questions. Behold, his confidence [boiler] being deceived [not
properly supplied with water], shall not at once his mighty form be spread
asunder [by an explosion]? There is none so bold that he will stir him up
[to run at his very highest possible speed], and none who will then place
himself before him [to be run over]. Who will compete with this one and
endure [pass him on the track]? Under the whole heaven, none, unless [one
like] himself.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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