Psalms 19:2

This proclamation is continuous and unceasing. "Dies diem docet." Each day, each night, hands on the message to its successor in an unbroken tradition. Day and night are mentioned separately, for each has a special message entrusted to it: the day tells of splendour, power, beneficence; the night tells of vastness, order, mystery, beauty, repose. They are "like the two parts of a choir, chanting forth alternately the praises of God." (Bp. Horne.)

uttereth Lit. pours out, in copious abundance.

sheweth Or, proclaimeth, a different word from that of Psalms 19:1. Knowledgeis "that which may be known of God" (Romans 1:19). "Aristotle says [10], that should a man live under ground, and there converse with works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the works of such a being as we define God to be." Addison in The Spectator, No. 465.

[10] The passage is a fragment of Aristotle's Dialogue on Philosophyquoted by Cicero De Natura Deorum, ii. 37. 95, and is well worth referring to.