Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Here is something that took place when our world was created, but not in our world. Heaven was the scene of it; and it is told us in order to carry up our thoughts to heaven, and make us better acquainted with it. In the text find — I. THOSE SPOKEN OF IN IT. "Morning stars," "Sons of God." With a star we connect the ideas of brightness and beauty, but with a morning star, peculiar brightness and beauty. "My angels," God says to us, "are morning stars." Angels are not "sons" as the Everlasting Son is. They are called sons by mere grace and favour. The name shows the abundance of God's love to them. II. WHAT THESE ANGELS ARE SAID TO HAVE DONE. They sang. Singing is the language of happy feeling. They "sang together." Here comes in the idea of union, harmony, oneness of feeling and joy, among these morning stars. God loves this oneness of feeling. They "shouted for joy." This invests the figure with a sublimity and majesty. III. THE OCCASION FOR ALL THIS REJOICING. It was called forth by the creation of the world. 1. The joy of these angels was a joy of admiration. They sang together, because they were struck together with the beauty of the world. 2. It was a song of praise. Because the world discovered to them in every part of it the perfections of God. (C. Bradley, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?WEB: when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? |
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