7. one day--a day altogether unique, different from all others
[MAURER]. Compare "one," that is, unique
(So 6:9;
Jer 30:7).
Not as
HENDERSON
explains, "One continuous day, without night"
(Re 22:5; 21:25);
the millennial period
(Re 20:3-7).
known to . . . Lord--This truth restrains man's curiosity and teaches
us to wait the Lord's own time
(Mt 24:36).
not day, nor night--answering to "not . . . clear nor
. . . dark"
(Zec 14:6);
not altogether daylight, yet not the darkness of night.
at evening . . . shall be light--Towards the close of this
twilight-like time of calamity, "light" shall spring up
(Ps 97:11; 112:4;
Isa 30:26; 60:19, 20).
JFB.
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