Morning

MORNING, This is sometimes put for quickly. Thou shalt hear me in the Morning, or quickly. The Evening and the Morning make the Day, according to Moses; because the antient Hebrews began their Day in the Gen. i. 5. Jer. vii. 13. xi. 7. Psal. lix. 16. xcii. 2. Ezek. xlvi. 14, 15. Vulgat.Evening, à Vesperâ in Vesperàm. The Morning expresses the Diligence with which any Thing is done. The Lord says, that he arose early to invite his People to return to him. The Psalmist says the same, that he praised God in the Morning, that he was in hast to pay his Devotion to him.

Ezekiel says, faciet sacrificium super eo cata manè*, man*è. The Priest of the Week shall offer every Morning to the Lord the ordinary Sacrifice of a Lamb. Cata manè, manè, is an Expression taken from the Greek, where the Preposition cata being joined to a Noun signifying a Year, a Day, or the Hour of the Day, denotes the Action to be repeated every Time at that Hour, cata manè, every Morning.

Zeph. iii. 5. Vulgat.Zephaniah says, manè*, manè judicium dabit in lucem. Every Morning doth he bring his Judgment to Light. Manè, man*è, being repeated, expresses very early in the Morning. Amos v. 3. Convertens in manè tenebras. God changes the Darkness into Morning, the Night into Day. Joel ii. 2. Quasi manè expansum super Montes, &c. As at the Break of Day the Light appears upon the Mountains, so shall the Locusts shew themselves in the Country.

From Morning to Evening expresses a very short Time. De manè usque ad vesperam succidentur. Job iv. 20. And the Psalmist comparing the Life of Man to a Flower, says, that in the Morning it lifts up his Head, it flourisheth, that afterwards it withereth, and in the Evening is Psal. cx. 6.dry’d up and decay’d. Mane sicut herba transeat, mane floreat & transeat, vespere decidat, induret, & arescat. The Rain of the Evening and of the Morning, or rather of the Spring and Autumn. See the Article RAIN.

The Psalmist speaking of the Birth, or Psal. xc. 3.of the eternal Generation of the Messiah says, that he was begot before the Morning, or according to the Hebrew, that ” His Posterity is as the Dew, which is ” produced from the Bosom of the Morning¹ ”. This Posterity are the faithful Believers in Jesus Christ. Their Multitude may be well compared to a plentiful Dew that falls in the Morning, and which seems even to come out of the Bosom of the Morning.

The same Psalmist, to express the Rapidity of his Flight, expresses himself Ps. cxxxix. 9, 10.thus: If I take the Wings of the Morning, and dwell in the uttermost Parts of the Sea; even there shall thy Hand lead me, and thy right Hand shall hold me. We know no Motion so rapid as the Diffusion of the Beams of the Sun, at the breaking of the Day.

If. viii. 20.Isaiah says, that those who do not keep the Law and the Ordinances of God, shall have no Morning, Non erit eis matutina lux. They shall perish without seeing the Light, they shall not abide ‘till Morning.

Job xli. 9.Job compares the Eyes of the Behemoth to the Brightness of the Morning. Oculi ejus ut palpebræ diluculi, they are as splendid as the Morning. The Behemoth is the Elephant.

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