An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Before the Sun.

¹The Hebrew is, Before the face of the Sun. The word Shemesh (the Sun) signifieth a Minister or servant, because the Sun is the great servant of the world, and ministereth those benefits of light, heat, influence. This (by the way) should have kept the Nations from adoring it as a God, which both in name and nature was their servant. But what means this, Before the Sun?

¹The Hebrew is, Before the face of the Sun. The word Shemesh (the Sunne) signifieth a Minister or servant, because the Sun is the great servant of the world, and ministreth those benefits of light, heat, influence. This (by the way) should have kept the Nations from adoring it as a God, which both in name and nature was their servant. But what means this, Before the Sun?

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1. Some take, before the Sun, to be only this, openly, conspicuously, and in the sight of all; for to do a thing before the Sun, is to do it without covert or secrecy, 2 Sam. 12.12. Thus the Lord threateneth David, after that sin of privacy committed with Bathsheba, Thou didst it secretly, ¹but I will do this before all Israel, and before the Sun: So the hypocrite, is green before the Sun; that is, he flourisheth in the eye, view and sight of all men. He hath fair leaves and branches of outward profession in the Church, and of outward prosperity in the world.