Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 74:16

16 The day is thine, the night also is thine : thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

It is not strange, no[illegible: 1+ letters] incredible that thou hast done these great and wonderful Works, for thou [illegible: 1+ letters]ast made the Heavenly bodies, and the Vicissitudes of day and night, depending upon them, which is a fa[illegible: 1+ letters] greater work.

Or rather, Established, as this word o[illegible: 1+ letters]t signifies; not onely Created, but settled in a constant and orderly Course.

Either, 1. That Primitive light, Gen. 1. 3. which afterwards was condensed and gathered into the Sun. Or rather, 2. The Moon, as divers, both Antient and Modern Interpreters understand it, called here the Light, to wit, the lesser Luminary or Light; wherein there is either, a Synecdoche of the general for the particular, or an Ellipsis of the Adjective, both which Figures are very usual. And that the lesser Light is here meant, may seem probable both, because it is opposed to the greater Light, the Sun here following; and because this is to rule the Night, as the Sun is to rule the Day, Gen. 1. 16. and so this Clause answereth to, and explaineth the former wherein both Day and Night are mentioned.

Marginal references: Heb. a [illegible: 1 word] ▪ [illegible: 1 word], and the S[illegible: 1+ letters]n.