2. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: wrapping the light about him as a monarch puts on his robe. The
conception is sublime, but it makes us feel how altogether inconceivable the
personal glory of the Lord must be; if light itself is but his garment and
veil, what must be the blazing splendor of his own essential being! Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain—within which he might swell.
Light was created on the first day and the firmament upon the second, so that
they fitly follow each other in this verse. Oriental princes put on their
glorious apparel and then sit in state within curtains, and the Lord is spoken
of under that image; but how far above all comprehension the figure must be
lifted, since the robe is essential light, to which suns and moons owe their
brightness, and the curtain is the azure sky studded with stars for gems.
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