![]() Knapp supposes the idea is, that from the moon's not giving a clear and full light like the sun, travelers trusting to its guidance may be led into rivers or quagmires. Lackmann and Michaelis suppose that there is some allusion to the influence of the moon in producing various kinds of disease, and especially lunacy - an idea which gave origin to that name. Some have supposed that he refers to the sudden cold which follows the intense heat of the day in Oriental countries, and which, because the moon rules the night, as the sun does the day, is either poetically or literally attributed to the moon. Nor the moon by night - The psalmist here refers to some prevalent opinion about the influence of the moon, as endangering life or health. ![]() Such effects of the sun are often fatal now, as doubtless they were in the time of the psalmist. The allusion here is to what is now called a "sun-stroke" - the effect of the burning sun on the brain. The Hebrew word means to smite, to strike, as with a rod or staff, or with the plague or pestilence and then, to kill, to slay. ![]() Barnes' Notes on the BibleThe sun shall not smite thee by day - The Septuagint renders this, "shall not burn thee" - συγκαύσει sungkausei. ![]()
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