Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 19:4

4. Their line is gone out through all the earth , and their words to the end of the world: in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun .

Either, 1. their admirable structure made exactly, and as it were by line: see Io[illegible: 1+ letters]. 3[illegible: 1+ letters]. 5. Zech. 1. 16. Or, 2. T[illegible: 1+ letters]eir lines, the singular number being put for the plural, for the line answereth to the Words in the next Clause. And by line or lines he may understand their writing, as this very Word is taken, Isa. 28. 10. which is made up of several lines. And this Expression may seem to be very fit and Proper, because the Heavens do not teach men audibly, or by speaking to their Ears, but visibly by propounding things to their Eyes, which is done in lines or writings.

(i. e.) Is spread abroad or drawn sorth.

So as to be seen and Read, by all the Inhabitants of the Earth.

(i. e.) Their magnificent Structure, and their exquisite Order, and most regular Course, by which they declare their Author, no less than if they used many Words, or long Discourses to that purpose, or no less than men disover their Minds by their Words. See more concerning this Verse, upon Rom▪ 10. 18. where it is applied to the Preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles, in the several parts of the World.

Which is a moveable Habitation, and therefore fitly applied to the Sun, which is here described, to be in constant and perpetual Motion, v. 5, 6.

Which being the most Illustrious and useful of all the Heavenly Bodies, is here particularly mentioned.

Marginal references: Rom. 10. 18.; Or their ral[illegible: 1+ letters], Or, direction.