Chap. 38, an Expoftton upon the Book. of B. Vert. 2+. 199 a clear and conflant (honing, And as the Egyptians with all their learning, could not tell the way howGod parted the light then, that it thould be light in Gofhen,and darknefs to feeling, or dark- nefs that might be felt inall the other partsof Egypt ; fowho can give a reafon of that diliribution of Gofpellight which God makesto forne parts of the world , while other parts of it fitin darknefs and in the very fhadow of death ? Secondly , In that the Lord puts the Ceflion to fob, Know- efl thou , &c. ( for we are Rill to repeat thole words in thefe queRions, thoughnot expreft, Kuowef thou?) thatis, thou know- efl not. Hence Note ;' Man is much in the dark about the light , and how God difirrs- batetb, difpofetb, and difpenfeth forth thelight. Thofe things that are clear to our fenfe, are oftenvery obtcure to our underflanding. Nothing more clear to fenfe,rhas that the light fis parted ; yet what is more obfcure than this , in what way, and bow the light is parted. And as this parting of the light is marvellous , fo alfo in the effe&of it ,. held out in the latter parc of theVerfe, Which fcattareth the Egad-wind: upon the Earth. Some bccaufe the relative [which] is not expreffed in the O. mum epien riginal , take. thefe words as a diflin& queflion , Knowefl thou IdlemJeu uren- by what way the light is parted? and (taking up that again)by what tomfubfoianum way hefcattereth the Eafl-wind upon the Earth ? But i (hall fpeakfi81é at tyPt of thefe words, as intending this effe& of light , the featuring jy.c ®mnem the Eau-wind. The HebrewWord figniñes Rielly the Eaflern vante:m. part of the World, the Sun- riling, and fo the Essig-wind , which son& rifeth oftenwith the Sun , or upon which the Sun (oath a great Eurwn vtm command, and miy be here put fynechdcchically for all the mum Loco OM- , Winds. Naturalifis tell us that lightning (which was the find niiimponit. interpretation) doth raite the Eafl-wind, or cauleth it toblow; Scutt. and that the light of the Sun, or the Sun- .ofing, hat alfo an influ- Sol dicitur ence upon the wind, or raifeth the Eafl-wind, isboth the obferva- 1entor;tmpoter Lion of Naturalifls and an affertion which bath ground inScrip- ìtrfubfolanus Lure. The Suti is by (orne called , the Father of the winds , and äorr: oeil s,_ efpccially of the Eaft-wind ; and the Eaft-wind bath denomi- quodj;ttub rt- nations giminojel..n.
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