Psalms 8:3

When I consider. — Literally, see, scan.

Ordained. — Or, as in margin, founded — i.e., created, formed; but the English word aptly introduces the idea of order in the kosmos. Comp.: —

“Know the cause why music was ordained?

— SHAKESPEARE.

In our humid climate we can hardly imagine the brilliance of an Eastern night. “There,” writes one of a night in Palestine, “it seems so, bearing down upon our heads with power are the steadfast splendours of that midnight sky;” but, on the other hand, the fuller revelations of astronomy do more than supply the place of this splendour, in filling us with amazement and admiration at the vast spaces the stars fill, and their mighty movements in their measured orbits.