Blackness

How Nave’s arranged it

• FIGURATIVEJob 30:30Joel 2:6
• Blackness of darkness Jude 1:13
• See Color, Symbolical

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Job 30:30

   My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

   ›Commentary on Job 30:302 voices

   “My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. If we follow the history alone, it appears plain that the skin of the blessed man was blackened by the multitude of ulcers. But according to the mystery of allegory, 'the skin' of Holy Church is understood as her outer appearance. For in the time of persecution the exterior appearance of Holy Church is blackened, because she is seen by persecutors as vile and contemptible. Her 'bones are burned with heat' when those in her who are strongest are afflicted with the burning of tribulation.

   “My skin is black upon me,.... Either through deep melancholy, as may be observed in persons of such a disposition, through grief and trouble; or rather through the force of his disease, the burning ulcers and black scabs with which he was covered, as the Jews were through famine, in their captivity, Lam 4:8; and my bones are burnt with heat; with the heat of a burning fever; which not only made his inwards boil, but reached to his bones, and dried up the marrow of them.

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2. Joel 2:6

   Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.

   ›Commentary on Joel 2:62 voices

   “All faces shall gather blackness - Universal mourning shall take place, because they know that such a plague is irresistible.

   “And so he will deserve to fulfill, likewise, those other words that have a bearing in this connection: "buried together with him by baptism unto death." For what purpose? "That as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life." He who is dead must be buried, and he who is buried in the likeness of death must rise again by the grace of God in Christ.

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