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5. Through all the earth, gone-forth is their line: and unto the
utmost-end of the world their speakings: he hath put a tent in them for
the sun.
6. And he; as a bridegroom, going-forth out of his privy-chamber:
joyes as a mighty-man to run a race
7. From the utmost end of the heavens is his egress; and his
compassing-regress is unto the utmost-ends of them: and none _is_
hidd, from his heat.
2. The heav'ne, doo tel the glory of God and his firmament dooth
preach.
3. work of his hands. Day unto day dooth largely-utter speach and night
unto night dooth knowledge shew
4. No speach, and words are none.
5. thier voice it-is not heard. Thier line through all the earth is
gone: and to the worlds end, thier speakings: in them he did dispose,
6. tent for the Sun. Who-bride-groom-like out of his chamber goes:
joyes strong-man-like, to run a race
7. From heav'ns end, his egress: and his regress to the end of them
hidd from his heat, none is:
In order to show the proportion of annotation in the book, and to indicate
the mental traits of the author, let me state that this psalm, in both
prose and metrical versions, occupies about one page; while the closely
printed annotations fill over three pages; which is hardly "explaining with
brevitie," as Ainsworth says in his preface. With this psalm the notes
commence thus:--
"2. (the out-spred-firmament) the whole cope of heaven, with the aier which
though it be soft and liquid and spred over the Earth, yet it is fast and
firm and therefore called of us according to the common Greek version a
firmament: the holy Ghost expresseth it by another term Mid-heaven.
This out-spred-firmament of expansion God made amidds the waters for a
separation and named it Heaven, which of David is said to be stretched out
as courtayn and elsewhere is said to be as firm as moulten glass. So under
this name firmament be commised the orbs of the heav'ns and the aier and
the whole spacious country above the earth."
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