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lights—the sun to rule by day, and the moon and stars to rule by night." And lxxiv. 16, 17. "The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast made summer and Winter." And civ. 19, 20. "He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down. Thou makest darkness, and it is night." Deut. iv. 19. "The sun, moon, and stars, even all the host of heaven—God hath divided unto all nations," for use. Job xxxviii. 12. Ps. viii. 3, 4, ch. cxlviii. 3, 5, and cxix. Ml. Jer. xxxi. 35. and xxxiii, 25. Mat. xvi. 2, 3. "When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day, for the sky is red and lowring." Luke xxi. 25, 26. "There shall be signs in the sun and in the moon, and in the stars—men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." Mat. xxiv. 29. Isa. xiii. 10. Ezek. xxxii. 7. Joel ii. 10—31, and iii. 15. Acts ii. 19, 20. Josh. x. 13.
Ver. 21—25. Acts xvii. 25. "He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things." Ps. civ. 24, 26. "The earth is full of his riches," mines, vegetables, animals.—"So is this great sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There is that leviathan," whales, crocodiles and other sea-monsters. Ps. 1. 10, 11. "Every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine,'" by creation. Job xl. 15. God's blessing gave the animals a power to propagate their kinds. Ps. cvii. 38, "He blesseth them, so that they are multiplied greiftly. Job xlii. 12. Ps. cxliv. 13, 14.
Ver. 26. The plural is not here used for the singular in the manner of some modern kings. There is not in scripture one instance of a sovereign's speaking of himself only in the plural number, we, us, our. But the plural us here denotes a consultation of the Divine Persons, concerning the production of that species of creatures which was to be the most perfect under heaven, and in which the glory of God was to be forever most illustriously manifested in his. work of redemption.—The image of God on man includes, 1 . The resemblance of his soul, in
