Genesis 1:4. And God saw the light, that it was good, etc.] Very pleasant anddelightful, useful and beneficial; that is, he foresaw it would be good, ofgreat service, as Picherellus f39 interprets it; for as yet there were noinhabitants of the earth to receive any advantage by it; (see Ecclesiastes11:7) besides, it was doubtless good to answer some present purposes, toprepare for the work of the two following days, before the great luminarywas formed; as to dispel the darkness of heaven, and that which coveredthe deep; to rarefy, exhale, and draw up the lighter parts of the chaos, inorder to form the wide extended ether, the expanded air, and thesurrounding atmosphere, while the Spirit of God was agitating the waters,and separating them from the earthy parts; and which also might serve tounite and harden those which were to form the dry land, and also to warmthat when it appeared, that it might bring forth grass, herbs, and fruit trees:and God divided the light from the darkness: by which it should seem thatthey were mixed together, the particles of light and darkness; but “by whatway is the light parted”, severed and divided from darkness, is a questionput to men by the Lord himself, who only can answer it, (Job 38:24) hehas so divided one from the other that they are not together at the sameplace and time; when light is in one hemisphere, darkness is in the other f40;and the one by certain constant revolutions is made to succeed the other;and by the motion of the one, the other gives way; as well as also God hasdivided and distinguished them by calling them by different names, as AbenEzra, and is what next follows:
John Gill’s Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Old Testament by John Gill
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