Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 1:14-15
Genesis 1:14-15 . Let there be lights, &c. God had said, Genesis 1:3, Let there be light; but that was, as it were a chaos of light, scattered and confused: now it was called and formed into several luminaries, and so rendered more glorious, and more serviceable. Let them be for signs, “An horologe machinery divine!” to mark and distinguish periods of time, longer or shorter; epochas, ages, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes. For seasons By their motions and influences, to... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 1:14-19
- VI. The Fourth Day14. מאור mā'ôr, “a light, a luminary, a center of radiant light.”מועה mô‛ēd, “set time, season.”Words beginning with a formative מ musually signify that in which the simple quality resides or is realized. Hence, they often denote place.17. נתן nāthan “give, hold out, show, stretch, hold out.” Latin: tendo, teneo; τείνω teinō.The darkness has been removed from the face of the deep, its waters have been distributed in due proportions above and below the expanse; the... read more