Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
KJV
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
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Out of whose womb came the ice?.... The parent of the rain and dew is the parent of the ice also, and he only; it is therefore called "his ice", his child, his offspring,
Psa 147:17
. Here the Lord is represented as a mother, and so he is by Orpheus (b) called "metropator", or "mother-father";
and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? this is of God, and by his breath; see
Job 37:10
.
(b) Apud Clement. Stromat. l. 5. p. 608.
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