the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Dictionaries
Night
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
or I only pause at this word just to remark, that the Hebrews reckoned their hours different from modern custom. They always began at six in the evening to count their hours; so that what we call three in the afternoon was to them the ninth hour of the day. And so by a. parity of calculation, of all the rest. Hence when Peter and John, as we read Acts 3:1 went up to the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour, this would have been with us three in the afternoon. I need not stay to remark, for I presume the sense of the expression is generally understood, that night in Scripture language is sometimes figuratively used for darkness in divine things. Thus God's people are called children of the day, and not of the night; meaning their conduct is according to light, and not darkness. (1 Thessalonians 5:5)
These files are public domain.
Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. Used by Permission.
Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'Night'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/pmd/n/night.html. London. 1828.
