John Gill's Exposition on Job 38:33

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? etc.] Settled by the decree, purpose, and will of God, and are firm and stable; (see <19E806>Psalm 148:6 <243135>Jeremiah 31:35,36); the laws and statutes respecting their situation, motion, operation, influence, and use, which are constantly observed; these are so far from being made by men, and at their direction, that they are not known by them, at least not fully and perfectly; canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? or over it; of the heavens over the earth; not such an one as judicial astrologers ascribe unto them, as to influence the bodies of men, especially the tempers and dispositions of their minds; to affect their wills and moral actions, the events and occurrences of their lives, and the fate of nations and kingdoms; their dominion is not moral and civil, but physical or natural, as to make the revolutions of night and day, and of the several seasons of the year; and to affect and influence the fruits of the earth, etc. (see <010116>Genesis 1:16 <053313> Deuteronomy 33:13,14 <280221>Hosea 2:21-23); but this dominion is solely under God, and at his direction, and is not of men’s fixing.

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