III. THE SABBATH. NSTITUTED.

2:1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished.

As described in the preceding chapter. The first three verses of chapter. really belong to chapter 1, as the change of subject occurs with verse 4.

All the host of them.

This expression is often used of the heavenly bodies (see Isaiah 45:12), which move through the heavens like marshalled armies. The expression is. military one, and is appropriate as well as beautiful. Here it not only includes the heavenly bodies, but the earth and it tenantry. The term fitly expresses the orderly arrangement of creation. Delitsch says: "God is the Lord of hosts. The sun, moon and stars are his hosts that he leads to battle against darkness."

Continues after advertising
Continues after advertising