M,}tg Verî,32. cAnExpoFtim upon the t300%of oB, Cha7; 36. The light, , itY turn lu eein,ttir: ;oleos, a quo los, vel .quia eft fans aueñ,fìmfìeat. ``erbum rrIT quod fibnificst prectpere, gùum regir præpo,ficionema Z7 fignifumt istterdieere, i?ifc: The word ufed by Elíhr?,fignifes both light and the Sun,which . is the fountain, from whence light flows and iffues yea the word fignihes altofire. TheSun, Moon, and Stars, are called (ignes) thefires ofheaven,becaufe like fo many fires or mighty torches they give light to us on earth. And by a metaphor the word fig- nifies joy, Ccmfart, allforts ofgood things; as on the other fide,_ by darknefs, troubles and calamities of all forts are metaphori- cally expreft in Scripture. With Clouds be covereth the light, "Indcontnoanrjeth it not toThine by the Cloud that cometh be- tween, As if he had fail; When a Cloud covereth the light, 'Cis the command of God which puts theCloud as a covering upon ir. Thofe words [ not to fhine ] are not exprefly in the HebrewText; - there it is only thus ; wi;th'Clouds he covereth the light, and cone- mandeth it by that which cometh between ; nor is the wad Closed expref} in the latter part of the verle, we put it in as a fuppli- ment in another Character, more fully to exprefs the fence ofthe Text. And commstndeth it not toThine. The word whichwe tranflate to command, properly fignifies, to bid or command a thing tobedone ; but when it funds in con- firuefion,:as here,with Gnal, it fignifieth ro forbid or flay a thing that it be not done. ( Gen. 2. 16.) godcommanded theman, or concerning the man, &c, As that command expreffed a liberty to eat of every other tree in the Carden, fo it included a prohibiti- on of eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge, which is alfoex- pref ed at the t7th verle. We have a like conf}ruction of the word ( Gen. 23, 6. 1 Kings 2.43.) He commandeth. it not to fh nc By the Cloud that cometh between. By that which comerh between, or by that which meets ir, that is, as we fupply it, by the thick anddark Cloud which meets and intercepts the b,:ight beames of the Sun. The root of the word Cgnitles to meetwith force ( notonly eccorrere but irrreere) to
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