Verse 4. — Let that day be turned into darkness. 7. It is turned into darkness, when the prosperous things it promises are understood as adverse. — This day, as it were, gives light to the minds of men, when the persuasion of his depravity is believed to be prosperous, and what he is inwardly is not seen. But when his iniquity, such as it is, is recognized, the day of false promise is, as it were, darkened before the eyes of our judgment with certain shadows; because, namely, such as he is by desert, such is he perceived in his flattery. Into darkness, therefore, the day is turned, when we understand as adverse even those things which by persuading it promises as prosperous. Into darkness the day is turned, when the ancient enemy, such as he is in his raging, is such perceived by us even when lurking under flatteries;
lest, with prosperities lightly regarded, he should mock us as it were with the light of day, and drag us with true miseries to the darkness of sin. There follows: