Their visage is blacker ... — We look, as it were, on the two pictures: the bloom and beauty of health, the wan, worn, sp…

Here the Prophet speaks of Nazarites, through whom, as we know, the worship of God was honored; for those who were not content with the common obse…

Their visage is blacker than a coal Or, "darker than blackness"; or, "dark through blackness" ^F25 ; by reason …

What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Ch…

Here he presents the disfigurement that followed their hunger. Regarding their change of color, their face is now made blacker than coals, a…