Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 19:3
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Psalms19:3
3. There is no speech nor language, where their voyce is not heard .
Or, understood, as this Verb oft signifies, as Gen. 11▪ 7. and 42. 23. 2 Kings 18. 26. 1 Cor. 14▪ 2. for the hearing of it, would have been insignificant without the understanding of it, in which the force of the Argument lyes. The Sence is, there are divers Nations in the World, which have several Languages, so that one cannot Discourse with, or be understood by another. But the Heavens are such an universal and admirable Teacher, that they can speak to all People under them, and be clearly understood by all. No Nation, or People, saith that wise and learned Heathen, T[illegible: 1+ letters]lly, I[illegible: 1+ letters] so barbarous and sottish, as, when they look up to the Heavens, not to perceive that there is a God, or to imagine that those things are the Effect of blind Chance, which are made with such wonderful Art and Wisdom, that it requires extraordinary Art to understand their excellent Orders and Course? But this Verse is by divers Learned men otherwise Translated, not without an elegant Gradation, as some observe. They have no Speech nor Word, nor is any Voyce or sound heard, in or from them. Then follows the next Verse by way of Opposition, yet their line, &c. Or thus, They have no Speech, nor Words, (which is supposed to be here said by way of Prolepsis, to soften and explain his former Expressions of the Heavens, declaring and speaking) yet (or, but without them) their Voyce is heard or understood.
Marginal references: Or, without these their voice is heard,; Heb. without their voyce [illegible: 1+ letters]eard.
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