And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.
Ibn Ezra
Moreover the light of the moon, etc. All commentators refer this verse to the Messianic period, to the time of the war of Gog and Magog; only R. Moses Hakkohen is of opinion, that all this part of the book refers to one and the same event. We read e. g. in the next chapter (ver 1.): Woe unto them that go down to Egypt; the same we read above (ver. 2). The meaning of this verse is, that the Lord will increase the light of the moon and sun after the rain in a wonderful way. Sevenfold, the prophet himself explains it, as the light of seven days taken together. In the day that the Lord bindeth up, etc. When the Lord heals the wounds of Israel; it refers either to the time of the war of Gog or to the time of the Assyrian dominion.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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