Chap. 37. 4n tvpo ition upon the Book of Jos. Verf. ï s. 541 full appearances and difcoveries of God, Firfl, to fave his peo ple ; Secondly,to judge and detfroy his enies,ufeth this word, which here we tranfate Chine, (Dial. so. 1.) The mighty God, even the Lord,hath fpoken and called theEarth from the riling ofthe Sun, to thegoing downof the fame; out of Zion the perfeaien of beau _ ty God bath (hind. That beauty with which God Chines out of Zan in the divine fplendor and holinefs of his worfhip and ordi- nances is very glorious. Again, (Pfad. So. 1.) Give care O Shep- herd ofIfrael,thou that leadefi 3ofeph hke a flock,ehoas that dwellefi between the Cherubims,Thine forth; that is, declare thy felf in thy mightypoNver, as it followeth (verf.i.) Before Ephraim Benjamin and Manaffeh, f?r up thy felf, and come and fave is . And äs the gracious appearances of God for the Pavingof his people, fo like- wife the dreadfull appearances of God for the defiruetion o£ his enemies, are exprelfedby this word ( 'Tfa1.94. a. )O LordGod, to whom vengeance belongeth, O God,te whom vengeance belongeth,; Chew thyfelf: The Hebrew is ( and fo we put it in the Margin ) sneforth. Thus the word notes no ordinary (lining, but alining bosh with vengeance, and with falvation;which latter falls in well with the Interpretation of the light {hiring in the Cloud, which. I (hall open a little further. ("Ind caufeth the light ofhis Cloud tofisine. There are three Interpretations of thefe words. ?irfl , Some by the light of the Cloud, underhand the light- ning, which all know) breaks through the Cloud, and (,aims cut wonderfully before itThunders. The light of lightning is a won Stiftteelu(Id± derfull light. us t?"e rtocdet Secondly, O. hersunderíland, by the light ofhis Cloud, the light diítsuri, so of the Sun fcartering the Cloud, and as it were,ttrning the Clo. d ea drfcuffa fe. into light, making light where none was,, or nothing but a thick re,itatern darkCloud. v£lurur. Thirdly, Several learned Interpreters expound the light ofhisinc data ijt £loud, by the Rainbow , which is alfa a very tlluffrious light , and nsbe rorida, et that is eminently the light iaf Gods Cloud, 'cis his light in the egre9ium opm Cloud.. We may alto call it a light of the Cloud ; for though the eiei;de ilia eis- light of the Sun falleth upon the clouds,yet the light of the Sun at humus expone- oth'r times is not fo properly called the light of the Cloud,as the feJguum cxi light of the Rainbow is, or as when the light of the Sun,refeí`ling tioner fecertts, from 5culte
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