An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

As if he had said, When a Cloud covereth the light, 'tis the command of God which puts the Cloud as a covering upon it. Those words [not to shine] are not expressly in the Hebrew Text; the•e it is only thus; With Clouds he covereth the light, and commandeth it by that which cometh between: nor is the word Cloud expressed in the latter part of the verse, we put it in as a supplement in another Character, more fully to express the sense of the Text.

As if he had said, When a Cloud covereth the light, 'tis the command of God which puts the Cloud as a covering upon it. Those words [not to shine] are not expresly in the Hebrew Text; the•e it is only thus; With Clouds he covereth the light, and commandeth it by that which cometh between: nor is the word Cloud exprest in the latter part of the verse, we put it in as a suppliment in another Character, more fully to express the sence of the Text.

And commandeth it not to shine.

The word which we translate to command, properly signifies, to bid or command a thing to be done;¹ but when it stands in construction, as here, with Gnal, it signifieth to forbid or stay a thing that it be not done. (Gen. 2.16.) God commanded the man, or concerning the man, &c. As that command expressed a liberty to eat of every other tree in the Garden, so it included a prohibition of eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge, which is also expressed at the 17th verse. We have a like construction of the word (