I. DARKNESS, is sometimes put for Job x. 22. Psal. cvii. 10.Death. The land of darkness is the Grave. They who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, are the dead. The false Gods of the Heathen, are, says Baruch, like a dead body Baruch vi. 70. Esth. xi. 8. Job iii. 4, 5.that is cast into the dark.
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