shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 4. As the light, and so forth So shall be the kingdom of Christ. Challoner.—Hebrew “Like the morning light, shall the sun arise.” But is this sense? Is not the sun the light of the morning? The oldest Hebrew MS. in England has the word Jehova before Sun, which seems to have acknowledged by the Septuagint though now unintelligible; and thus we are freed from this difficulty, and the passage is proved to be prophetical of the great sun of justice. Malac. 4:2, Isaiah 60:2. Kennicott, Dis. i. p. 471.—The Hebrew is extremely obscure. Calmet.—Prot. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springeth out of the earth by clear shining after rain. Bible.—These comparisons may be applied to the Psalms and other inspired writings, which enlighten the eyes; (Psalms 18:9,) or to Christ, whose glory surpasses that of the sun, (Psalms 71:5,) and whose graces produce the just. Isaiah 45:8. Menochius.—We might expect that David was going to compare the glory of his reign and of his family, with that of the rising sun. Judges 5 ult. But he does not finish the comparison, being filled with a sense of his own misery. Calmet.