black and dark night Lit. in the pupil (of the eye) of the night, and the darkness. The Heb. word for pupilis the same as that rendered apple(of thine eye), Proverbs 7:2. It is used again poetically, as here, in Proverbs 20:20, in the blackest darkness, R.V. lit. in the pupil(of the eye) of darkness.

The short twilight of those latitudes is quickly followed by the blackness of night: which things are here perchance an allegory.

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