The Jewish Day

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OBSERVE, the Jewish day began in the evening, at about seven o'clock of our time. This was according to God's original order, as we read, "The evening and the morning were the first day" (Gen. 1:55And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Genesis 1:5)); and also, we may add, according to His way in the process of the world's creation, seeing that His Spirit was moving on the face of the waters while darkness was still brooding thereon, before He said, "Let there be light." In all which we discover the shadowing forth of a principle; namely, that God, in dealing morally with human nature—sin having come in—is dealing with darkness, out of which He is bringing forth light, order, and beauty; that let man corrupt his way as he may, the grace of God will triumph at last; that though sorrow, the sad fruit of sin, may endure for a night, joy, the blessed result of God's grace, will assuredly come in the morning.