II. DARKNESS, Night, Obscurity, signify likewise very frequently the greatest Misfortunes and Calamities. This day was a day of darkness, an unhappy day. Let that day be darkness, let darkness stain it, let it be reckon’d among the unfortunate days. I am encompassed with darkness. I will cover the heavens with darkness. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, &c. All these expressions signify nothing else but very great calamities.
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Darkness (II)
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