Genesis 1:17-18
9:13; Job 38:12; Ps 8:1,3; Ac 13:47 Ps 19:6; Jer 31:35Genesis 8:22
While the earth remaineth. Heb. as yet all the days of theearth. Isa 54:8seed-time.Most of the European nations divide the year into four distinct parts, called quarters or seasons; but there are six divisions in the text, which obtained in Palestine among the Hebrews, and exist among the Arabs to the present day. According to this gracious promise, the heavenly bodies have preserved their courses, the seasons their successions, and the earth its increase for the use of man. 45:6; Ex 34:21; Ps 74:16,17; So 2:11,12; Isa 54:9; Jer 5:24; Jas 5:7day.Jer 31:35; 33:20-26Psalms 74:16
The day.136:7-9; Ge 1:3-5prepared.8:3; 19:1-6; 136:7-9; Ge 1:14-18; Mt 5:45Psalms 136:8-9
The sun.148:3; Jer 31:35; Mt 5:45to rule. Heb. for the rulings. The moon and stars.The sun is the monarch of day, the state of light; the moon of the night, the state of darkness. The rays of the sun falling on the atmosphere, are refracted and diffused over the whole of the hemisphere of the earth immediately under his orb; while those rays of that vast luminary which, because of the earth's smallness in comparison with the sun, are diffused on all sides beyond the earth, falling on the opaque disc of the moon, are reflected back on the lower hemisphere, or the part of the earth opposite the sun. But the reflected light being 50,000 times less in intensity than that of the sun, there is a sufficient distinction between day and night, though each is ruled and determined by one of these two great lights. 8:3; 89:36,37; Job 31:26
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